Finally, the rest of my weekend

Argh! I'm getting more and more behind!

So I'm up to Saturday night, the 24th. My friend Hody was in Jerusalem over the weekend, so we saw each other Saturday night. We went to a wonderful little cafe-type-place which had amazing drinks and desserts. I had something called a Sahlab, which is an Arab, dairy-based drink. It's thick, and in it was vanilla flavoring, some nuts, and I think Cinnamon. It was great. I also had one of those chocolate cakes where the inside is hot liquidy chocolate. YUM! Anyway, it was really nice to catch up with him. Afterwards, we walked around for a bit, and I discovered (what he already knew - he's been in Israel since the summer) a new and used book store with mainly English books. Somewhere I will definitely go back to. While I was there, I picked up things that I could fine in other stores: a siddur, which I forgot to bring with me to Israel, a Hebrew-English Dictionary (likewise forgotten), and a guide to restaurants around Israel that was on mega sale.

He was going to meet another friend for a movie (I was invited, but declined), and then some of my Hebrew U friends met up with me and we hung out for a while. All in all, it was a very good night.

Sunday night was another lecture at the student center. It was supposed to be on Immortality & Reincarnation, but the guy who was supposed to give it was sick. Instead, someone else filled in on the subject of the mysticism of the Hebrew language. He spoke about how it is a special language because of a lot of weird little things, like meanings behind letter-shapes and words that are similar to each other and how they connect. For example, the word for balance and the word for ear in Hebrew come from the same root. Of course, we now know that the inner ear is responsible for us keeping balance, but the Hebrew language had been around thousands of years before this was known, so it seems like some sort of odd coincidence that these two words would be connected. Some arguments, like that one, were very interesting, but I felt that some were not so strong. I was skeptical of what he said, and though I think there are some interesting things in the linguistics of the Hebrew language, I'm not sure I would say that it's a spiritual thing from G-d. But who knows.

The next day deserves its own post, so I'll leave you with this for now.