5 Adar
We are very blessed by the rain this week. We have full cisterns again. The water level at the well has risen, too, we don’t have to let out the rope anywhere near as far as we did at the end of the dry season. But rain does have its downside… mud! My whole living room floor is covered with odd rags permanently to keep it clean. Men just don’t seem to understand the need to remove their rain sodden footwear at the door. Maybe if they had to clean the floor?
Shmuli and Yoshi played a board game in the barn yesterday, and they lost a couple of pieces. They spent ages looking for them. Then they came in here covered in straw to add to all the mud Shmuel brought in from the fields! Why do I bother!
Super is a simple barley and lentil broth with bread cakes tonight as cleaning up all the mess feels like it has taken up the best part of the day. I must say, I love barley and lentils. I have a pretty good idea why Esau sold his birthright for it!
Barley and lentils… hmmm you should try it sometime.
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4 Adar
Last night, I told Shmuel about Reuven’s visit. I must admit, my head is in a spin. You just don’t know what is going to happen next. No one can ignore the impact Yeshua is having around here. Some people believe he is a prophet. Others get really upset, saying such a claim is heresy. The only sure thing is that everyone has an opinion. Shmuel is a lot more level headed than me. He said he hoped the whole thing would settle down soon. If we don’t get back to some kind of normality, some people will not have enough crops to harvest. He said that whatever is going on, we have a responsibility to provide for our families.
Hadassah and Miri came to do some weaving this afternoon. The girls worked together on Rivkah’s loom. Miri asked if she could have one of her own, then they could both make things for market. The boys have their chickens, and she thought the girls could earn money for home too. She took to weaving as if she had been doing it for a long time. Of course Hadassah said she would talk to Danni about it. She could ask her own father Eliezar, he made her first loom when she was little, he would love to do it she was sure.
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3 Adar
Today began well enough. We were all feeling refreshed after our lazy afternoon. Hadassah and Miri called by when the boys were at school. She said they had decided to tell people that, little Miri was special to them, but she was not magical, and the one who did this for them lives in a nearby town. Perhaps they should be seeking him out. It seemed to be working. Many had brought her gifts and her parents were afraid of her becoming spoiled.
A little after noon, I had a surprise visitor. Reuven came into the yard and called me outside. He had no yarn for me nor I cloth for him, so what was he doing here? Reuven always loves to gossip, even so, he usually works it in with his business. This time, it was as if the tidings he bore would cause him to explode like an over filled wineskin of he did not tell somebody soon. I brought him some cordial and he told me his story.
Apparently, he had spent yesterday in KfarNahum. He arrived at synagogue in good time but found it more crowded than usual. He had squeezed in at the back just in time to hear the end of the reading. A new rabbi he had not seen before was expounding the reading. He spoke with such authority too, Reuven thought, as if he had written the words himself… “Don’t tell anyone I said that, I won’t be allowed back into synagogue!” I don’t think he meant to put it that way, but he could not find other words to describe what he experienced!
Suddenly, a madman had burst out screaming in an awful voice, ” Yeshua of Natzaret have you come to destroy us? I know who you are. You are the Holy one of God!” At this the Rabbi ordered him to be silent, and ordered the spirit to come out of him. The man flailed about, screaming, then he fell down. Then he stood on his feet in his right mind!
“Can you believe that?” he exclaimed. My heart was pounding so hard, I could hear it. He said there was more! “Afterwards, the Rabbi was visiting Kefa, the fisherman, and he healed his mother-in-law of a fever! Now people are bringing their sick and mad relatives to his house, and you can’t get up the street. The whole world’s gone mad!”
Indeed it has! What is happening to us? I felt I had to tell Rabbi Moshe as soon as Reuven left even though I should really have got Shmuel to do it. I put on my shawl and walked over to his house. Fortunately, he was in his yard, so I could speak to him. He listened to Reuven’s tale and smiled.
“I was expecting something like this,” he said, “I just hope this does not complicate his mission. People who seek signs and wonders do not understand why he is here. Healing and deliverance from demons are all well and good, but if my old friend was right, he is here for a much greater purpose.”
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