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"
BLESSED IS THE ONE WHOSE STRENGTH IS IN THEE
WHOSE HEART IS SET ON PILGRIMAGE"
PSALM 84


Gila Yudkin guiding on the Mount of Olives

A pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a journey of the heart.  It’s a walk in the Land of the Bible that holds the roots of your faith.  It’s a celebration of the spirit in thanksgiving, prayer, song, and fellowship, with sacred rites such as baptism, communion, a reading of the Beatitudes, a sail on the stormy sea.  It’s a life-changing experience and guaranteed to impact forever how you “see” the Bible, hear the stories and “walk the talk.”

Anticipating a pilgrimage to the Holy Land?  Bible References will help you locate major stories pertinent to the sites you’ll be visiting.  After returning from the Holy Land, having studied Scripture “on location,” you will be reading the Bible in color, rather than in black and white.

Eager to read up on the Biblical period?  The Booklist recommends titles from my library of well-thumbed books on the Holy Land.  As a Connecticut-born Yankee transplanted to King David’s court, and a pilgrims’ guide since 1978, I have been studying the Bible, the land, and archeology for over four decades.

 

Interested in creative ways of visiting well-known sites, as well as those lesser-known off-the beaten-pathways?  Then look at articles from my “Holy Sites: Gila's Highlights” which I wrote from 2005 to 2020.  Two of the last highlights were "Let's find Ziklag, David's elusive Philistine base" and "Let's flatten the curve proclaims Isaiah the Prophet."

Like to read profiles of notorious celebrities or biographies of alpha achievers?  Holy Land Headliners profiles personalities who have left their mark on the Holy Land, including a femme fatale eyeing Jericho, a bishop lost in the Wilderness of the Temptation, a Connecticut Yankee who audaciously tackles Biblical geography and a headless knighted archeologist buried on Mount Zion.

Like to know more about female characters of the Bible?  Heroines fleshes out
profiles of Mary Magdalena, Bathsheba, Elizabeth, Abishag, the Witch of En Dor and Veronica (who is actually not biblical!).

"Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the time of Covid-19," is a collection of photos which show you what the church looks like without crowds of pilgrims and orient you if you have not yet visited.

 

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Try the Top Twelve popular articles this month for a flavor of what my website has to offer.  Scroll down for the latest articles and postscripts posted in 2022. 

Tips for Tours gives you fun and practical ideas culled from collaboration with hundreds of ministers, priests, rabbis, teachers, professors, and facilitators I have team-guided with over the years.  If you are considering leading a Holy Land Tour, then you may want to check out "A to Z for Holy Land Tour Leaders."

Songs & Praise provides transliterated words for the Hebrew songs I teach on bus rides and the blessing we recite upon seeing Jerusalem for the first time.

 
About Gila is an interview with yours truly, answering questions asked, time and again, usually on that first drive from the Ben-Gurion Airport.

Have fun exploring these Holy Land resources and contact me if you’d like to book me as your holy land guide.
 
Have YOU been there, done that?
 
Have you mounted a camel on the Mount of Olives?

Have you stood in the battlefield of David versus Goliath?

Have you walked the ramparts like Nehemiah?

Mount of Olives   

David versus Goliath

  Old City ramparts

 
Have you toured the Temple Mount with Gila?

Have you heard Gila tell Cleopatra's story at Casearea

Have you practiced with the traditional sling that killed Goliath?

Temple Mount tour with Gila

Cleopatra & Caesarea

David's sling?


GILA YUDKIN TCHERNIKOVSKI 64A JERUSALEM ISRAEL
gila@itsgila.com

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