Showing posts with label tower of David. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tower of David. Show all posts

Monday, December 24, 2018

Joshua Aaron - Tower of David LIVE song story - O Come O come Emmanuel in English and Hebrew


Joshua Aaron
Tower of David LIVE song story - 
O Come O come, Emmanuel, 
in English and Hebrew



Published on Dec 22, 2018


Pre-order the the Tower of David LIVE album today at http://www.Joshua-Aaron.com The Tower of David LIVE recording was filmed and recorded on October 30th, 2018 in the Old City Jerusalem. Simchu, Simchu Emmanuel Yavo Lachem B'nei Yisrael Pre-order tody and be some the first to receive this historic concert on CD (& optional DVD). Filmed and recorded within the old city walls of Jerusalem, the Tower of David LIVE album is sure to fill your home with the sweet sounds of Israel and the nations. Featuring Aaron Shust, Chief Joseph RiverWind, Jamie Hilsden, Yaron Cherniak, some of Israel's finest musicians and worshipers from Israel and the nations.

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

The Majestic Tower of David ✡ "David Reigned Over All Yisrael" - Israel365

David reigned over all Yisrael, and David executed true justice among all his people.

וַיִּמְלֹךְ דָּוִד עַל־כָּל־יִשְׂרָאֵל וַיְהִי דָוִד עֹשֶׂה מִשְׁפָּט וּצְדָקָה לְכָל־עַמּוֹ

שמואל ח:טו
va-yim-LOKH da-VID al kol yis-ra-AYL vai-HEE da-VID o-SEH mish-PAT
utz-da-KAH l’-khol a-MO

Today's Israel Inspiration

King David was an ideal king, not only because of his military prowess and artistic creativity, but because he ruled the nation with “true justice among all his people.” King David ruled according to the “letter of the law," but also ensured that everyone received not only that to which they were legally entitled, but whatever they needed. This commitment to the highest level of ethics epitomizes the righteous reign of King David in the eyes of God. David's Tower stands tall in the Old City of Jerusalem as an everlasting reminder of David's exemplary leadership. Get this beautiful photo of the Tower of David and learn more about this ancient site in the Israel365 2017/2018 Then & Now calendar.

Discover the Fascinating History Behind the Tower of David

Join CUFI’s The Watchman as he uncovers the secrets behind one of Jerusalem’s most famed landmarks- the Tower of David!
 

PM Netanyahu Invites Tourists to “Walk Through the Verses of the Bible”

A new Trans-Israel tourist trail which will bring visitors through Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria will allow hikers to “walk through the verses of the Bible,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
 

"And Hashem said,
“Let the earth sprout vegetation: seed-bearing plants, fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it.” And it was so."
Genesis 1:11

 
PLANT NOW »

Today's Israel Photo

This photo of the Tower of David is featured as the photo for July in the Israel365 Then & Now calendar.
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Thursday, May 26, 2016

For photogenic Jerusalem, a look at how locals first captured their city - THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

For photogenic Jerusalem, a look at how locals first captured their city - THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

Shot from every angle since cameras were invented, the capital has usually been viewed through an outsider’s lens. A new exhibit of residents’ pictures from 1900 to 1950 takes a first shot at filling the gap
BY SUE SURKES May 26, 2016


Jerusalem has been photographed from nearly every conceivable angle, dating back to the 1830s, when the world’s first photographic images were captured on film.

That photographic heritage is the subject of a new exhibit, “The Camera Man: Women and Men Photograph Jerusalem 1900-1950,” opening Thursday, May 26, at Jerusalem’s Tower of David Museum.


It was European visitors to the ancient city who were the first to photograph Jerusalem’s ancient sites and walls, and their own agendas colored those early photos, said curator Shimon Lev.

The tourists were photographers, archaeologists and devout Christians drawn to the perceived mysteries of the Orient, often inspired by a desire to prove that the events told in the New Testament had happened, and taken place in Jerusalem.

They were followed by the period of “Zionist photography” in the 1920s and 1930s, when professional photographers found paid work through the Jewish National Fund. It was a period of political and ideological photography, depicting tanned young men with bulging muscles pushing plows and athletic young women dancing the hora.

That photography was ambivalent toward Jerusalem, which, at the time, represented many of the Jewish ills which Zionism was supposed to upend, said Lev.



Shmuel Josef Schweig. Concert by the cantor Z. Kwartin, from a Jewish National Fund album, Buki Boaz collection of Israeli photography, Mevasseret Zion


What was missing in that perspective was the photographers who lived and worked in Jerusalem, and the varied perspectives they brought to bear through the lens.

“The history of local photography in Jerusalem has never been shown as a body of work and we wanted to be the place to show it,” said Eilat Lieber, the museum’s director.

The results were culled from 18 months of intensive work, as the museum staff scoured photo archives, visited the major collectors of early Israeli photography and identified photographers — often by locating family members.

The exhibition features 120 digitized photographs and a smaller number of originals. It juxtaposes a range of styles, from formal and avant-garde, to a direct, journalistic, documentary style, creating an historic journey of the development of photography. It also casts a lens on the backgrounds of the photographers themselves, who brought their own cultures and histories to bear on their subjects and works.



A Torah lesson at the Diskin Great Orphanage in Givat Shaul in the 1920s, a digital print from glass plate negative (Courtesy Tsadok Bassan/Central Zionist Archives)

Of the 34 photographers on display –- including Jews and Arabs, women and men — Tsadok Bassan was the first Jewish photographer born in the city. A member of a third-generation, religious Jerusalem family, he created a unique photographic record of life in pre-state Jerusalem, immortalizing what went on in yeshivas, orphanages, soup kitchens, hospitals and cemeteries. Each of his pictures is meticulously composed, and natural light is a conspicuous feature.

In startling contrast, German-born Alfred Bernheim, one of the city’s foremost professional photographers, brought the style of the Weimar period and the New Vision movement to bear in his modern, angular compositions.


A rugby match between the Jerusalem Police and the Northern Police, circa 1933 (Courtesy Zvi Orushkes/Central Zionist Archives)

Zvi Oroshkes (Oron) came from Russia and, thanks to good contacts with the British, took journalistic pictures for the British Mandate administration. One shows a pair of clowns dressed up to entertain English families. Another depicts a rugby match.

While photographs of the War of Independence are relatively well-known, Lev chose a humble yet striking image taken by German-born Rudolf Jonas of a father walking with his child through an alley flanked by sandbags. Ali Zaarour, probably the first Muslim Arab photographer to work in Jerusalem, is featured with a poignant image of light streaming down on a painting of the Virgin Mary through a hole in the ceiling blasted by a shell.



A shell hole in Old City home (Courtesy Ali Zaarour/Zaarour family collection)

The 120-photograph show, organized by photographer, will be accompanied by two smartphone apps, one telling the story behind the exhibition, the other featuring locations in Jerusalem as photographed then and now. In addition, visitors will be able to don costumes and pose against a background for formal portraits in the style of the early 20th century.

The museum is also inviting visitors to create the next century’s accounting of everyday life in the city by contributing their own family photos to the museum, complete with information about the photographer, the subjects and the occasion.

As part of the museum’s effort to draw visitors to their Old City location, they are creating panels of some of the photos that will be placed outside the downtown Clal Building, next to the Mahane Yehuda market, in order to engage with Jerusalemites and tourists.



Orphans busy tailoring at the Diskin Great Orphanage in Givat Shaul (Courtesy Tsadok Bassan/Central Zionist Archives)

The idea for the exhibit came from the Tower of David’s own photographic archive that includes thousands of unsolicited photographs sent to the museum. The contents of the archive were recently digitized and uploaded onto an international online collection for museums. A Culture Ministry grant will support restoration of the collection, and the aim is to make them eventually available to the general public online.

Lieber said the largest photo archive in the city is held by the Jerusalem Municipality, and which is currently closed to museums, researchers and the public. Her hope is that the museum’s exhibition will persuade the decision-makers to open the archive, digitize it, and put it on-line.


“The Camera Man,” Tower of David Museum, May 26 — December 12, 2016.

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

"He Saddled His Donkey" ✡ Donations Matched for a New Ambulance to Save Lives - ISRAEL365

And Abraham arose early in the morning, and he saddled his donkey … and went to the place of which God had told him.

GENESIS (22:3)

וַיַּשְׁכֵּם אַבְרָהָם בַּבֹּקֶר וַיַּחֲבשׁ אֶת חֲמֹרוֹ... וַיֵּלֶךְ אֶל הַמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר אָמַר לוֹ הָאֱ-לֹהִים

בראשית כב:ג


va-yash-kaym av-ra-ham ba-bo-ker va-ya-kha-vosh et kha-mo-ro ... va-yay-lekh el ha-ma-kom a-sher a-mar lo ha-e-lo-heem

Today's Israel Inspiration

We learn an invaluable life lesson from just one Hebrew word in today's verse - awoke earlyוַיַּשְׁכֵּם. Abraham was zealous to do God’s will at the first sign of daybreak, teaching that we too should grab opportunities to do good without hesitation. Fast forward 3,000 years and meet  ZAKA volunteers who follow in Abraham's footsteps. ZAKA is Israel's incredible volunteer terrorism and disaster emergency response organization. Volunteers remain on call every hour of the day ready to rush to any tragic scene to save lives. With the increase in terror, ZAKA is in dire need of 5 new ambulances to carry out their sacred mission throughout Israel. No matter where you live in the world, you can partner with ZAKA for the benefit of mankind. Help save lives, strengthen faith, and strengthen Israel.

Israeli Traffic Behind an Ambulance Gets Interesting

What happens when Israelis are stuck in traffic behind an ambulance at the scene of a tragedy? You must watch their reactions!

As Deaths in Israel Rise from Wave of Terror, Search & Rescue Ambulances Needed

Typically, ZAKA volunteers deal with an average of 30 incidents of unnatural deaths every week. But with the current wave of terror, ZAKA is being swamped with a dramatic increase of incidences throughout Israel.

Elijah Kiddush Cup

This Elijah Cup is a wooden Kiddush Cup filled with wine for the Prophet Elijah during the Passover Seder. Yair Emanuel is a well known Israeli artist famous for his depictions of the Jerusalem's Old City. This cup features an impressive Jerusalem skyline image.

Today's Israel Photo

Yosef Symonds' beautiful photo of a donkey enjoying the early spring wildflowers in Givat HaTumerasin
(Lupin Hill), central Israel.

Yesterday's Photo Trivia

Yesterday's photo featured the Tower of David (in Hebrew, מגדל דוד, Migdal David), an ancient citadel located near the Jaffa Gate at the entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem. Despite its name, the tower has no connection to King David, but rather dates back to the Ottoman empire.

Thank You

Today's Scenes and Inspiration is sponsored by Motshoanedi Lesejane of South Africa. Todah rabah!

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