Showing posts with label Birkat HaChama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birkat HaChama. Show all posts

Sunday, April 05, 2009

And Where Were You 28 Years Ago?

I've written here that twenty-eight years ago, at the reciting of the Birkat HaChama (Benediction of the Renewed Sun Cycle) that I was on the roof of the Makhkama, the former Muslim court next to the Western Wall Plaza, entered through a door on Chain Street, just outside the Temple Mount courtyard, now a base for the Border Police.

Some doubted my memory.

I do myself at times.

But, as luck would have it, I opened up today's Haaretz in English and there, on the very front page, is a story with an accompanying photograph:


I looked carefully above the crowd:


Yes, I'm one of those daredevils: