A Rabbi's Guide To The Land Of Israel
Jerusalem of Gold of Copper & of Light
"David's Citadel"

From my first visit to Israel as a teenager I was always curiously drawn to the Tower of David. People referred to it all the time, but no one ever took me there. When I was living for a semester in Jerusalem my Junior year abroad from Brandeis University, I intended to go there and remember feeling painfully disappointed when I was told it housed a small doll museum-- old dolls from around the world, if I recall correctly. I never played with dolls as a kid-- I never went to the doll museum.

But now-- in Israel, land of miracles, there is the most phenomenal museum there. No more dolls-- it is a history of Jerusalem. And it is truly the most amazing museum I have ever experienced. It uses everything from the most modern technological tools to the most ancient artifacts: computers, holograms, models, stelles, bas reliefs, moving pictures, film, pottery, 3-D pictures, dioramas, mosaics, tapestries, multiple TV screens, four layered glass plate paintings....

And the most incredible part is that it is all right there in David's tower. The whole history of the place right there-- in that place! As we walk around and down, around and down, it is like peeling back the layers of history or visiting a living archeological site. Each level takes us to a new depth of understanding-- the heart of David's City, Jerusalem, the City of Peace.

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