School holidays - Freedom... Jewish holidays and the Dead Sea

Hi guys sorry for not writing blogs for a long time. Now on my blog I will tell you why.

The reason I didn’t write a blog for a long time is because I had two weeks off school. Yay I didn’t have school for two weeks  !!!!!!!

For the first week off school I was at home, I was so bored it felt like I was in the desert on my own.  

After the Jewish New Year, which I have already told you about, there is another holiday called Yom Kippur.

Having fun during the school holidays

So Yom Kippur is quite a serious day for Jewish people. It is the day we say sorry for all the bad things we have done and the day that G’d writes you in the book of life. Sounds really scary, but hey, as a kid it’s a great fun day. You ride your bikes on the road because cars aren’t allowed to drive on the road and people don’t work.

Jadon and Uncle Yosi 
with the Brachot 

Mummy and Zack in the Sukka

OK that’s enough about Yom Kippur let’s get to the next holiday. Sukkot. Sukkot is a holiday when you build a sukkah. You need to sleep in a sukkah on sukkot.

On the second week, this was towards the end of Sukkot, I went to my aunt and uncle’s house to visit them for a few days. The holiday at the end of Sukkot is called Simchat Torah.

Simchat Torah is when all the people that prayed for one whole year are happy because they’ve finished reading the Torah. I was at Simchat Torah with Jadon and my aunt and uncle. 

The sad bit about finishing the Torah is that they have to start to reading the torah again from the start.

After 2 nights my mum and dad came to pick me and Jadon up to go on a surprise trip. We went to the Dead Sea for the day.

The Dead Sea is the most salty sea in the world and it's called the Dead Sea because it hasn’t got any fish in it. It is too salty for anything to live in.

In the Dead Sea you float because the water is so thick with salt. It is really cool. Your legs literally just float up and you just lay there. It’s really good for your skin too, but hurts a lot if you have a cut.

And then sadly, as with all good things, we had to come home to get ready to go back to school - Booooo

Trying out the camel with Jadon.

Such a beautiful place.

The desert is amazing.

Jadon and I floating.

This is how the men get changed - that's me, my brothers and dad in there.

But why do the old women go behind the changing area - gave me a big shock!