One of the trips that we have gone on during this trip was going through the Hezekiah Tunnels under Jerusalem.

If you have been reading all of my blogs or looked into Alexander Muss a little you can understand that the school is very into experiential learning. Experiential learning (if you don’t know) is when instead of learning mainly from a textbook and in-classroom work you are going out of the classroom and seeing what you are learning. At Alexander Muss, we have at least two trips a week and, because all of this history happened in the land that I am in we can visit so many different places, I find this way of learning very interesting.

One of the trips that we have gone on during this trip was going through the Hezekiah Tunnels under Jerusalem. These tunnels were built thousands of years ago when King Hezekiah saw that Jerusalem needed a constant water source for when the city would be under siege. Ironically, later on King David ended conquering Jerusalem by sending his soldiers through the tunnels. We spent a day learning about the history of Jerusalem (in this time period) and then left for the tunnels. As we were walking through the dark tunnels with water up to our wastes at some points I had a really interesting thought. I thought of all of the soldiers thousands of years ago walking through those tunnels. I started to really appreciate the fact that I am able to walk through a tunnel that was walked through searching for Jewish freedom.