I was sitting in the kitchen doing not a whole lot when all of a sudden loudspeakers started blaring loud Mizrachi (North African style) religious music. I looked out the window to find to my surprise that there was a parade right below me. One of the local synagogues (the Morrocan one from the look of things) is getting a new Sefer Torah (Torah, or Old Testament, scroll). They are traditionally received with a parade of people dancing and singing, though I suspect the truck with the HUGELY LOUD loudspeakers is a modern innovation...I'd wondered what was happening when I got home and saw police blocking off the main commercial street behind me and a guy wandering around with a tv camera, but I didn't expect to find a parade right under my window.I don't particularly care for the style of music, but it's certainly an "authentic cultural experience", and anyway it's always fun to see a parade, whatever the reason.Excuse the shaky video, I'm 9 floors up and was too lazy to go upstairs to the roof (patio) to film so I filmed out the kitchen window over my laundry lines.
4 comments:
Sounds like an adventure! Don't ya just love being stuck when you don't expect to be stuck with kids? (not) Who would have guessed there would be so many uses for disco balls in the new millenium....
How cool! Nothing that loud and exciting happens here; school construction notwithstanding. And I've been dying to ask...how did you come to live in Israel? Curious mind and all that...LOL!
Welcome home!
Love all your photos, I'll be back to finish reading your travelouge.
I am so jealous you got to see Orcas and eat salmon off planks, how cool!!
It's great to have you back! :)
What fun to have a parade right at your house! Except for the parking of course. This sounds like it would have been a blast to see in person. I'm green.
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