This is definitely working out conveniently for me, as I've been too swamped the past few days to adequately blog (but due to good reasons, family smachot).
Here's a new one I just received:
Here's a new one I just received:
I took my son to the Kotel to put on tefilin for the first time. I told him that we would go on the Kotel tunnel tours after davening. Now, you can’t just walk up to the tunnel tours and buy tickets. You have to order and reserve your places in advance, and of course I didn’t do that. So we walk up to the man selling the tickets and I ask him for 2 tickets for today. He looks at me and says "No way! We are completely booked for today -- you need to reserve in advance."Only in Israel.
So I said to him "but my son just put on tefilin for the first time today."
He said to me "Don’t say another word!" -- and he gave me 2 tickets, and blessed my son that he should grow up to be a big tzaddik.
Wherever I am, my blog turns towards Eretz Yisrael
That is an "Only in Israel" story. But so nice.
ReplyDeleteWow... what time were you there?
ReplyDeleteWe probably almost met; our group took a trip there today for a 12:10 tour (although I assume that a post-tefilin visit meant you were probably long gone by that point)
oh, wait, never mind. That wasn't an actual Jameel story.
ReplyDeleteI suppose that means I have no idea who I almost met, which makes it somewhat irrelevant...
Never mind :)
My wife has a friend that works there and she could have gotten you in.
ReplyDeleteJoe: Duh.
ReplyDeleteI have the same friend.
Stirring...
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