Walking through Christian Quarter.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christian Quarter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As we enter through the Jaffa gate (I think) to the old city near the Christian Quarter, Ronit stops to give us her opinion of the origination of a mezuzah on the doorposts of Jewish homes.
In Ronit's version, she poses the question of why it would be necessary to mark the doorposts of Jewish homes with lambs blood if God was all-knowing. Hm-m-m-m. She answers her own question with the following explanation: the people of that time believed in many gods including Ra and also believed in magic. It was much more efficient to tell them that the one and only all-knowing god needed a sign than to get into a philosophical argument. This explanation is different from anything I'd ever heard before or read on-line since.
We continue on past the tomb of the wall engineers. They were ordered hung by Sulamen either because when they built the wall, they excluded the City of David and Mt. Zion or to prevent them from ever building anything so beautiful again - the legends vary. That's some tough building inspectors.
The Church of the Holy Sepulcher was built around 400 A.D. on the spot where a stone shaped like a human skull, called the Golgata stone, was found since the stories passed down from one generation to another claimed that Jesus was crucified near a stone that had this shape. Again, the precise location is just a rough guess. Golgata - Wikipedia You'll have to click on Translate this page before reading what's on the link (unless you speak Swedish) (Sorry about all of the posts trying to get this link to work)
Courtyard and entrance.
Altar
Tomb
Mural near stone of anointing depicting that scene
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