Ethiopia and Tigre Province

 

As part of a trip to Uganda and the Abuyadaya, South Africa and Namibia, we stopped in Ethiopia. Here are some of our pictures.

 

 

Entrance to the old synagogue in Tigre provence.

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Wall of the compound that has the synagogue.

DSCN0861On the way we saw farmers working like in the days of old

 

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The Torah says one should not work an animal an muzzle him . Here we see the farmers doing exactly that, so the animals can’t eat.

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We found a number of Ethiopian Jewish cemeteries from before their aliyah. What was interesting was that their family members come back to the graves. We saw many memorial candles brought from Israel.

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We climbed this mountain in the Jewish village of  Bet Mariah. On the mountain top was  a altar, or prayer place that they would pray from every Shabbat.

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In Ethiopia, we shechted 150 chickens and 3 goats for  a number of the Jews there. We did it in the original Jewish slaughterhouse behind the shul in Addis Ababa.

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We set up a factory to clean and then salt the meat and birds.

 

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