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Hi!

First if all, I thank everyone for their comments. Superman1, you have given me much food for thought.

I had another dream, the third in this series, I think, last week. I dreamed that I was back in my Samaritan friend's home in Holon. It was Saturday, i.e. the Sabbath for both Jews & Samaritans. The young Samaritan that we spoke to back on April 23, on Mt. Gerizim, at their Passover offering, was also there. (see my first journal entry). My younger friend welcomed me, like he expected to see me. I asked him how Sabbath morning prayers were (the main Samaritan Sabbath morning prayer service begins well before dawn); he clapped me on the shoulder and asked me when I would join them. Gaaaah...

Their Passover offering on Mt. Gerizim next year will be in the very late afternoon/evening/early nightfall on Sunday, April 13. Our (Jewish) Passover begins exactly 24 hours later. (Sometimes our calendars jibe, like next year, and sometimes they don't, like this year). Unless we are prepared very early, well in advance, it will be virtually impossible to go back to Mt. Gerizim & watch the ceremony. This might actually be a good thing because I don't know if I could stand it. I would want to be with them too much. There is something authentic about them, I think. If it weren't for the scandal it would cause to my family, I think I would approach thjem with a view towards adopting their version of our faith (as I'll put it) now. But I love my family (wife & 2 boys) more than anything and can't, and won't, do this to them, not now anyway.

We spent last Sabbath, after my latest dream, with relatives we haven't see in a while. I talked about the Samaritans to my cousin (a grandmother of 11) with such (obvious, to her) enthusiasm that she said I would make a good Samaritan, that I should convert. (Note to self: Be careful when you talk about Samaritans!)

Gaaah...