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Here is a story about David Ben Gurion, who helps us understand the meaning great Passover and power his extraordinary. In 1954, when he was prime minister, traveled to the United States to meet with then President Eisenhower and seek the help and support for difficult moments of young Israel. One meeting with the then State Secretary of Administration, John Foster Dulles that Ben Gurion confronted with a high degree of arrogance:
Tell me, Prime Minister – Who are you and your country really represent:” Whether Jews or Jews of Yemen, Poland, Romania, Morocco, Iraq, the Soviet Union or Brazil are the same”? After 2000 years of exile, can we talk about one nation, one culture, one legacy of Jewish tradition? Ben-Gurion replied:
“See, Mr. Secretary, and 200 years ago the ship Mayflower sailed from England with the first settlers who settled in what is now is the great democratic powers called the United States of America. Please, walk out on the streets and asked ten North American children the following:
What was the name captain of the ship? How long was the journey? What the passengers were eating during the Journey, and how sea behaved during the journey? Probably will not get accurate answers”.
 ”Please see now 3,000 years the Jews left Egypt. I ask you that in one your travels around the world, try and meet ten Jewish children in different countries; asked them what was the.
What was the name captain of the ship? How long was the journey? What the passengers were eating during the Journey, and how sea behaved during the journey?
“When you have the answers, and wonder, try to remember and appreciate the question just as asked me”.

Submit by Lovitt Henderson

Heavenly Father, Look down on your humble, obedient tourist servants, who are doormen to travel this earth, taking photographs, mailing postcards, buying souvenirs and walking around in trip-day underwear.

We beseech you lord, to see that our luggage is not lost and our overnight baggage does unnoticed at customs.

Give us this day divine guidance in the selection of our hotels that we may find our reservation honored, our rooms made up and hot water running from the faucets.

Lead us, Dear Lord, to good inexpensive restaurants where the food is superb, the waiter friendly and wine included in the price of the meal.

Give us wisdom to tip correctly we do not understand. Forgive us for under tipping out of ignorance over tipping for

Grant us the strength to visit the museums, the Cathedrals, the places and the castles listed as “musts” in the guidebooks. And if, perchance, we skip and historic monuments, to take a nap after lunch, have mercy on us for out flesh is weak.

  (This part of prayers is for husbands)

Dear God, keep our wives from shopping sprees and protect them from “bargains” they don’t need or can’t afford. Lead them not into temptation, for they know what they do.

(This part of prayers is for wives)

Almighty Father, keep our husbands from leering at the foreign women and them to us. Save them from making fools of themselves in cafes and nightclubs, so they know exactly what they do.

(Everyone)

And when our trip is over and returns to our loved ones, great us to favor of finding someone who will look at our home movies and listen to our stories so our lives as tourists will not have been vain.

Tour guide is dealings with different kind’s people. Sometimes happens that you run into a remarkable and surprising situation. That’s what happened to me many years ago. On that day I received a group of Jewish tourists from the U S at the Ben Gurion airport . After the group boarded the bus, we made our way to Jerusalem. These moments are very important because it the first contacts with the visitors coming to the Promised Land. They’re pretty tired after a long flight. These moments are used for a general briefing introduction regarding the rest of the day tour. The nice way to start the visit in  Jerusalem is to see the city from one of the outlook view points, and Jerusalem has a few great ones. Mach nicer than first contact with Jerusalem will be there and not hotel lobby.

When I was done with my briefing introduction, one lady asked me to come close to her want to talk to me. When I came to her she whispered: “my father is here with me”. She was in her sixties and in the group was mo man who could be her father. She pointed to a cardboard box she was holding and told me “My father is in the box and I want to bury him land of Israel“, I was shocked. Luckily we got to an observation point, and I needed to talk to the group. When we were boarding the bus I told the lady I need time to think about it, she agreed. No way could I go with her and tray buries the ashes in a cemetery, cremation forbidden in Jewish religion. The only exaction was with ashes coming from crematoriums ovens used by the Nazis during Holocaust.  You all welcome to visit in Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem.  When I run into serious problem I am not ashamed to consult and ask advice from friends, so I did this time too. There were those how did not believed me and thought I was joking. One of my tour guides friends advised me to go with her to one of the trees  planting of KKL  Jewish national fund  buy trees and bury the ashes with the roots of the sideling’s . A brilliant idea I went with the lady to the John F. Kennedy Memorial planting trees center in Jerusalem . She bought seven trees to symbolize the Temple Menorah . She asked for a location she can recognize in case coming for a visit.

? I don’t know if that visit was ever made. Do you think I did it  

Ben Gurion airport, Israel, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, KKL, Temple Menorah, Kennedy Memorial

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