Anything we wanted

B"H

Jerusalem was celebrating Purim Shushan today. The weather was great but far too hot: 33 degrees Celsius (90 Fahrenheit).

Thousands were in the streets celebrating. Rabbi Mordechai Machlis organized his traditional Purim party in the late afternoon. It was wild but nice.

Afterwards I took two friends to Mea Shearim. One of them mostly accompanies me to the Tishes on Shabbat and the other one simply wanted to see what we are talking about all the time.

We had an incredible time and tomorrow, I am going to write about our visits in detail. The Tishes we went to were: Toldot Aharon, Toldot Avraham Yitzchak, the Neturei Karta, the Mishkenot HaRoim, Chassidut Stropkov and Karlin - Stolin.

We finally succeeded in getting into the Mishkenot HaRoim Synagogue and saw great dancing taking place. We even made some pictures.
The Mishkenot HaRoim are a kind of secret group (organization) in Mea Shearim. Their head is Rabbi Chaim Rabinovicz and they are members of the anti - Zionist umbrella organization "Edah HaCharedit".

We had an unbelievable time and it was great seeing all those chassidic places. The Mea Shearim Synagogues were open tonight and the Chassidim were very welcoming.

Within the next coming days, I am going to put some more pictures into the blog.