Bigfoot!

In Israel, we have just completed the first day of the Biblical holiday of Sukot/Tabernacles. For seven days we eat and sleep in little “booths” on our lawns, commemorating the wanderings in the desert at the time of the Exodus – some 3500 years ago. Sukot is one of the three “pilgrimage holidays” in the Jewish calendar. In ancient days, Jews used to trek to the temple in Jerusalem during these feasts. In Hebrew, “pilgrimage” is called “aliya la-regel”. This is usually translated as “going up on foot”. But the correct translation is “going up to the foot”. It now seems that in Biblical times they literally went up on foot to the foot. Meaning, archeology uncovered by Haifa University’s Adam Zertal demonstrates that the earliest places of Israelite gatherings were shaped as giant feet, or sandals. The idea was to literally take ownership of a spot by planting one’s foot on it and thereby identifying it as a place of pilgrimage. It seems that it is these places that are called “Gilgal” in the Bible. It is at one such “Gilgal” that Saul son of Kish was crowned King of Israel, some 3000 years ago (as told in 1 Samuel 10).

This is incredible synchronicity between the Bible and archaeology, dating back to the Israelite conquest of the land of Israel. Read all about it here: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=12089&hp=1

Click here to see my recent article “Christians at Masada!” on The Times of Israel