五月八日
连着几天活动量都不小,她俩到了六点也没有醒的意思,大概是累着了。俺自己就扛着相机出去溜达了,这时候应该街上没什么人拍片子的好时机!
从亚美尼亚区开始沿着跟昨天一样的方向走,区别是昨天在城墙上,今天在地上。这个点儿出来的确是没什么人,早上准备开店门儿的,送货的之类的。好像没看见什么晨练的。一路溜达到了哭墙,合着人都在这儿呢!不得不佩服犹太人的虔诚,这一大早哭墙那里就很多人了,诵经,念经,沉思,哭的,笑的,苦大仇深的,没事儿人一样的,老的,小的,中不溜的,干嘛的都有,貌似女部人少一些。哭墙分两部分,中间有栅栏隔着,面对哭墙男左女右。
这个哭墙是圣殿山西边的一段石墙,犹太人认为这是他们祖先在圣殿山上建的第二座犹太教圣庙被罗马人彻底捣毁后留下的遗迹。第一座圣庙是在公元前十世纪犹太王所罗门在此建立的,后被巴比伦人烧毁,之后在此地又建了第二座圣庙,并在公元前20年由西律王扩建,期间故事无数。里面供奉了装有十戒牌子的金箱子。公元70年罗马人彻底捣毁了第二座圣庙,之后公元132-135年犹太人起义木有成功,而且被彻底赶出了耶路撒冷流落世界各地。公元七世纪穆斯林攻占了耶路撒冷,在犹太圣庙的遗址上建了圣石金顶dome of rock。
重建圣庙迎接弥赛亚的到来是犹太人的的梦想。可那块地方现在是穆斯林的圣石金顶。此地为犹太人的第一圣地,穆斯林的第二圣地(传说先知穆罕默德在此升天得到了古兰经)。这两家商量点事儿太不容易了!
旅店的前台
旅店的入口,正对着的就是昨晚的餐厅。早上送的面包就挂在门上。
清晨街上很幽静
圣詹姆斯教堂旁边有个酒吧,网友说很有特色值得一去,路过几次都是关门儿,难不成也要按门铃儿?
警察巡逻
教堂清真寺满街都是
这个虔诚的老奶奶一边看书一边念念有词儿,不时地看着清真寺比划一下。
进入犹太区了,犹太区明显比别的区都干净整洁一些
清真寺犹太教徒比肩
过了安检就来到西墙广场了
俯瞰西墙,金顶下面就是西墙,那个天桥是上圣殿山的通道
圣殿山墙角下的考古遗址
安检分男女,男左女右
犹太人的圣经,他们叫图拉torah。听网上犹太人说穆斯林看见可兰经被丢在地上就去杀人,犹太人看见图拉被丢在地上就去祈祷,有道理吗?
西墙左手边还有个室内部分
没想起来写啥俺就没去给上帝塞纸条
顺着穆斯林区回了旅店
回了酒店吃了早饭带着她俩又出来溜达,这是圣詹姆斯教堂里面
各种管道,自来水?煤气?
又折回了西墙
下个节目就是走一趟苦路。这个苦路是耶稣从被判刑背着十字架走到圣墓教堂被钉死的路,途中发生了十四件事儿,现在这十四个地方都建有教堂来纪念。话说耶稣被犹大出卖被官方拿下以后,官方知道他有些来头不想自己杀他,所以把耶稣交给了罗马人的官想借刀杀人。罗马官说你们犹太人自己干仗关俺神马事儿。犹太官说他说他是the king of jewish - 犹太王。这东西有两个解释,如果说是精神上的,罗马官肯定无所谓,如果说是行政上的,这就是谋反啊!罗马官问耶稣这个犹太王是啥意思,他也不愿意解释。所以罗马官就按当时流行的判法,把耶稣和另外两个犯人,一个小偷还一个是啥忘了,绑到广场上示众,让路人来决定哪个该杀。guess what? 路人们选择了杀耶稣!
第一站,判刑 - 钉十字架; 第二站 官兵给他戴上了荆棘作的“王冠”取笑他,让他背上了十字架开步走;第三, 七,九站,耶稣摔倒在地;第四站,耶稣看见他亲娘;第五站,西蒙帮耶稣背十字架的地方;第六站,维罗尼卡用自己的汗巾给耶稣擦血擦汗的地方,传说擦完后汗巾上就印出了耶稣的头像,有一大堆资料在研究这个汗巾现在在哪里,请大家自学;第八站,在此碰见了虔诚的女信徒们并给她们讲道;第十,十一,十二,十三,十四站,都在圣墓教堂里,记录耶稣被脱去长袍,钉上十字架,放到停尸石板上,放入墓穴里,复活!
俺们除了第一,二站没去其他都走了,第一站在狮子门附近,在现在的什么学校里,第二站就在街对面。俺们问清楚了没过去,俺俩不知为啥事儿杠上了。
第三站
第四站
地上的脚印据说是圣母留下的
苦路的拉丁语路牌,念法:维亚 叨唠如萨
途中要穿过好几个市场
苦路线路图
期间还有个教堂说是圣母的出生地,不开放
狮子门,因为门上刻着狮子,多新鲜哪!
第五站
第六站 牌子上写着 教皇保罗六世六四年一月四号曾来过这里祈祷。梵蒂冈自称维罗尼卡的汗巾在梵蒂冈手中,但是在有限的几次展示中只是在高楼上晃了几晃,目有人看得清那是个神马方巾。
第七站
第八站
第九站咋没找到照片呢?下面是第十至第十四站,都在圣墓教堂里面。今天这里就是people mountain people sea了啊!这么小的各教堂里面其实有六个教堂,里面的地盘划分的很清楚。
走完了苦路,回旅店吃吃喝喝,睡个午觉。
这是吃饭时拍的门口来往的人
午觉后本打算去看看圣母安息教堂 dormitioin abbey。结果走了弯路,到了教堂时人家关门儿了。晚上哭墙有什么宗教活动,满街都是犹太人穿着他们的各色礼服往西墙那边去。
俺们的旅店,紧挨着雅法门。今天也很有意思。
5/8/2015 jerusalem day 2
got up early again. my two team members are showing signs of fatigue now. they are sleeping in again. i grabbed my camera and headed out on my own. i covered armenian quarter, jewish quarter, and muslim quarter before i got back. stopped by western wall to check out the morning crowds. while i was there i researched the entrance to the temple mount and found out that our only shot to get in was on sunday.
went back to the hotel after my grand morning walk. my two team members by now were ready to get up. after breakfast we were ready to go again. today's program was a bit relaxed - walk around the old city and check out the via dolorosa!
can someone please help me out with this question? i forgot to ask when i was there. at the western wall i saw many prayers. i noticed that some men had a little "device", if you will, on their heads - a small black cube seemingly attached with a long black plastic tape, some people wrapped the black tape tightly on their arms from wrist up. a little explanation is greatly appreciated. thanks.
i took the two girls through the routes i covered on my own earlier in the morning. than we walked over to the lion's gate to inargurate our walk on via dolorosa. we had a little hard time to find stations 1 and 2. the instructions we read indicated station 1 was now a school near lion's gate. and station 2 was right across the street. we were just not smart enough to figure out. found the rest of stations except station 9 i think. we finished off at the church of holy sepulcure, which was now packed with people. we were so glad that we were here last night. less people made the site more appreciable. we even got a little acquainted with a sister maria because she was so fond of our little girl.
after we finished via dolorosa we went back to the hotel and ate at the same restaurant. had a little nap. afterwards we went out to see the dormition abbey. however, we didn't do a good job looking at the map and wondered off towards the mount of olives from out side the wall. by the time we adjusted our course and arrived at the abbey it was closed. good exercise, though!
other than we missed the opening time at the dormition abbey we had another great day.