You know those people who go on a trip or vacation in nature and then bother you with boring landscape photos they took? Well, I'm not like that.
It's not that I'm not annoying, I just don't go on nature walks. It's terribly hot there.
But here are some photos from the past month, most of them from pleasant Jerusalem. Last moments of August and in between times, before the next month of Elul comes upon us for good.
Everyone knows that you always meet interesting people at the Western Wall. I don't know who this group is or what country in Africa they came from, but when I got close to photograph them praying excitedly at the Western Wall, I noticed the following miraculous phenomenon: Their colorful clothes matched exactly, exactly, the colors of the book of the Pentateuch that was lying there behind them. Cellphone photography: Yedidia Meir
I saw this graffiti this week in a garden in Jerusalem. And not just any garden, but the one next to the Prime Minister's residence on Balfour Street: "Free Kaya from Netanyahu's captivity!!!".
One can argue whether the joke is in good taste or not, but one thing is quite clear: if it had been written about another personality's pet - say, the black cat of the President of the Supreme Court - we would already be hearing about the dangerous incitement in all the news broadcasts.
But this is Netanyahu. Everything is allowed. Kaya passed away five months ago (which is probably something like three years in a dog's life) and that "price tag" is still hanging in her living environment. By the way, to remember exactly when the dog died, I went to Google and was surprised to discover that the late Kaya had a very long and detailed entry on Wikipedia, including footnotes. Cellphone photography: Yedidia Meir
Late at night, the closing event of the OU's NCSY youth movement summer camps. Thousands of young men and women from the United States, most of them from non-religious homes, came to Israel for a few weeks of fun, volunteering, studying, and historical trips to the Land of Israel.
Throughout the evening, videos from the camp's activities are projected on giant screens. The campers tell how much the weeks in Israel changed their lives. Graduates from previous camps describe how, after becoming acquainted with Israel, they decided to study there and make aliyah.
Then, after the speeches, and the music, and the tearful singing of hope (as only Americans who haven't yet had the chance to live here and get used to Israel know how to sing), and after the fireworks in the sky, text in an old font is projected on all nine screens. What is this? Another video? The host announces: Evening prayer.
I've been to many events that ended with evening prayers, but this is the first time I've seen this simple and effective idea: projecting the words of the prayer on giant screens. Wisdom in Americans, believe me. Cellphone photography: Yedidia Meir
Last Wednesday. It's midday in the middle of nowhere. The Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva's study hall, which is bustling with hundreds of students every day and night of the year, is now empty. I mean, almost empty. At the edge of the study hall are a few young people, probably residents of the neighborhood, sitting and studying.
Then, this Jew enters, sits in the last row, right by the door, and immerses himself in the Gemara. He's easy to recognize from behind: the rabbi of Jerusalem, the chief rabbi, Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar. It turns out that the rabbi had come to be the godfather at the circumcision ceremony that was supposed to take place here, but the baby was delayed. When I stood quietly behind him and took the picture, I felt a bit like a paparazzi. But a paparazzi of the highest order. Cellphone photography: Yedidia Meir
And that too happened this summer in Jerusalem. For one week, the name "Rabbi Aryeh Levin" returned to the forefront of her consciousness. It was under unfortunate circumstances. Over the years, Rabbi Aryeh Levin's sons and daughters passed away, and now the last of them has passed away - Rebbetzin Atal Palczinsky, 95. An era has ended.
Rebbetzin Palczinsky lived all these years in the house of Rabbi Aryeh Levin in the Knesset neighborhood of Jerusalem. And "all these years" is literally 95 years. It was in this house that she was born on Tishrei 1944 and from this house that she was rushed to the hospital on her last day on earth.
Even as a child, she assisted her father, the renowned Jerusalem tzaddik, in his acts of kindness with the underground prisoners and the city's poor, and continued to assist him and live by his side even when she grew up and married Rabbi Eliezer Palczinsky, one of the disciples of the sages of Jerusalem.
Until recently, she still received groups who wanted to meet with her and hear from her about the glorious history of her great father's house, on the street that has been named after him since his death. Cellphone photography: Yedidia Meir
And we'll end with a riddle: What do you see in the picture? What is this strange stand placed behind a thick transparent panel against a background of ancient stones? Want a hint? The Western Wall again.
Well, this is a view from below, from deep within the Western Wall tunnels, looking up - towards Rabbi Getz's synagogue opposite the Holy of Holies. As in the tunnel with the help of the men on the left of the Western Wall plaza, here too there is a section with a transparent floor. This is how it looks from below. Cellphone photography: Yedidia Meir
• The column is published in the newspaper 'Bisheva'
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