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In this issue: What Being a Guide To Your Own City Teaches You — About Yourself
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Guide and Be Guided in Life
It’s always fun to be a guide in your own city, on your own turf.
At least for me.
Been at it for many years, especially in NYC.
Instead of leaving visitors - friends, family, even dates - to their own devices in a confusing, fast-paced, even dangerous place, it’s a huge help, a grand adventure - and an awesome lesson in presentation, speaking, psychology and marketing.
You get to play historian, formulator, critic, curator - and most of all, storyteller.
Well, yesterday, I got a real treat.
A new friend (and reader of Commander-in-Chief Briefs reader - you know who you are ;) came to visit Haifa all the way from Tel-Aviv (ha!), but really all the way from Melbourne, Australia!
I’m all for adventure, meeting awesome new people, showing the town I call home.
No shortage of great places to eat here, nature, museums, and of course that well-known, magnificent landmark, Bahai Gardens.
I picked up Z from the train station, outside of which he was happily enjoying a picture on the beach.
Already knowing a good bit about each other from a previous intro (thanks to Clara, a fellow OnDecker :), we got to chatting about all sorts of interesting subjects around Israel, Haifa, personal history, nature, cultures, you name it.
As it happens, we have a LOT in common, an uncommon lot, that is.
Law degree, multiple cultures to juggle, writing, reading, both really introverts in a group of extroverts, foodies with a think for great bakeries, etc.
Uncanny, really.
Even though we’re on paper from vastly different backgrounds - Russian Jew here from America living in Israel, Parsi/Hindu/Bangladeshi living in Aussie there - we actually quickly found a lot to agree on in terms of worldview.
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Funny enough, even though we’re both in tech and have much to discuss there, we barely touched on the subject.
First things first, we went to Prophet Elijah’s cave up on a cliff off the beach.
Never visited before and it was just reopened recently after years of renovations.
I remember my barber in New York, who used to live in Haifa, tell me to visit.
So I took the opportunity to see something new for myself, as well.
It’s a holy site and as we walked in, schoolkids were singing a song in Hebrew.
Sure enough, it’s a cave with very nice furnishings, likely a far cry from the way it was when Elijah was actually there (he was hiding from pursuers wanting to kill him).
I said a few Tehillim (Psalms) while Z took it all in. From the side, it’s probably a big culture shock.
Saints in a cave with kids singing!
We next went downtown to Hanamal, the renovated old British port.
We went to a bakery where we went nearly every day with my wife while in ulpan, learning Hebrew.
The conversation went deeper on writing, finding next steps, formulating a life philosophy and creating a movement of similar-minded people behind it.
It’s funny how some people just put one at ease, while a very rare few do so to a degree where one shares rather freely, like with a friend of 20 years.
We drove up the mountain by Bahai Gardens and up to University of Haifa, where the view from the top of Mt. Carmel is just what every introvert needs to reset.
It’s a feeling of absolute awe to see the green mountain unfold, down to the beach to the right and into massive hills in every other direction.
Z will definitely remember the view.
Next, we drove around the Carmel to Daaliat-al-Karmel, a Druze village with all sorts of Druze crafts and treats.
We had lunch at Nora’s Kitchen, a kosher-meat Druze eatery, the “real deal” for Galilean Druze cuisine.
Nora and her sisters opened the restaurant early, just for us. We even helped her carry the pans to the dining room. Why not?
The meal was delicious, at once smelling like some of the food back home in Australia, but of course quite different, at once.
As we were driving back into Haifa, Z gave me just about the best compliment I could hope to receive as an Israeli and Haifa resident.
He said, Tel-Aviv is great, but here today, I really feel like I got to know the “real” Israel.
That was precisely the idea!
And as I was running around throughout the day, taking the kids to my Mom and school activities, I realized that being a guide actually teaches ME a great deal about myself and my own life.
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