Traveling and Fridays

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I’m going to the Holy Land soon and I’ll be there for a Friday. In England we have no meat on Fridays penance, do I keep this or do I observe the penance of Israel?
 
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§2. Travelers are not bound:
1º by the particular laws of their own territory as long as they are absent from it unless either the transgression of those laws causes harm in their own territory or the laws are personal;
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Thank you, I’ll try to keep it meat free anyway, but it’s good to know that, in case I forget.
 
Our meals will be at the hotel most of the time anyway, so I’m sure that they will have something
 
Ioannes_L said:
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I know Friday is a penitential day, but there’s no need to be so drastic.😂
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One man’s penitential pizza is another’s indulgant pizza. Jalapenos and extra cheese, please! I’m not well travelled so I cannot speak to the availability of jalapenos in the holy land.
 
I read many Israeli recipes containing jalapenos so they must grow it there too.
To the OP if I were you I’d try out falafel (roasted vegan balls) for sure on Friday and say it to myself it’s for penitence 😁 …the reason why I eat two. 🤣
 
The Holy Land is a developed country and there are lots of possibilities to have all kinds of food to eat. There are vegetarians and vegans there as well. Remember that a lot of the Eastern Churches usually fast on Wednesdays and Fridays.

I can recommend the St Peter´s fish when you are near the Sea of Gallilé. There is falafel and hummus and lots of vegetables and fruit. Israel grows bananas in the Dead Sea area. Citrus fruits would be ripe.

If you can, take a float (swim) in the Dead Sea. Don’t let the water get into your eyes as it will sting for about four hours because of the amount of salt. Skin will be soft like a babies after.
 
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I can recommend the St Peter´s fish when you are near the Sea of Gallilé
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We are going there I believe, yeah from what I have read about it, there will be plenty to eat, although most of the meals are at our hotel I have seen that on the Friday we will having lunch in a local restaurant, so that will be an opportunity to try different veggie foods.

I don’t think we’ll have time to go into the Sea, also it will in January so probably not very warm!
 
I went in January the first time I went. The day we went to the Dead Sea, we left the highlands of Jordan, where it was 37 degrees and blowing rain (after snowing the day before) and arrived at the Dead Sea, where it was 75 and sunny. Remember that the Dead Sea is in a desert.

-Fr ACEGC
 
Looking at our itinerary there’s no time for a trip to the Dead Sea, but if I ever get to go again it would be something to experience
 
I have a question for all of those who went to the Holy Land, specially Israel.
I was watching a French documentary about the Orthodox Jews and their life, and in one specific part they said that they force Jews and non-Jews to shut down their shops due to the Sabbat. Does this happen frequently?
Also, is it safe to cross the Israeli-Palestine border?
 
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I’m not too sure about that about the shops, but I can speak to the second part. It’s perfectly safe to cross the border, and if you visit all the major shrines you probably will several times. The border police do scrutinize tour buses, and they don’t care about racial profiling. They’re looking for Palestinians who are trying to enter Israel to work. So when they boarded our bus once, they didn’t pay attention to me and my buddy from Michigan, since they’re not looking for pasty white guys. The six Hispanics and the Italian got their passports checked.

The fellow of Italian decent, a seminarian at the time, was quite smitten with the border cop, and justifiably so, as she was a rather lovely young woman. She asked for his name, and he replied, starry-eyed, “United States of America.” It was pretty funny.

-Fr ACEGC
 
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Water temperature will around 20 degrees Celsius in January and that is at its coldest. I went in February and was soaking in the water for a long time - until I got salt water in my eyes.
 
Muslims close their shops on Fridays, Jews on Saturdays and Christians on Sundays and their other religious holidays. Then they will all close when they have a major secular celebration of some kind.
 
I had more problems at my airport when flying into Tel Aviv airport and being interrogated and having my luggage searched when leaving Tel Aviv than with the border crossings between Israel and Palestine.
 
Ioannes_L said:
I was watching a French documentary about the Orthodox Jews and their life, and in one specific part they said that they force Jews and non-Jews to shut down their shops due to the Sabbat. Does this happen frequently?
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A whole lot of stuff is just plain closed on Sabbat for whatever reason, whether it’s forced or whether they have Jewish employees or whatever.
Also, is it safe to cross the Israeli-Palestine border?
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Sure. If you want to see Bethlehem, you have to.
 
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