Menachem's Here!

Menachem Walfish came to visit us! He was on a trip with a group and his Rebbe, Rabbi Leible Kellerman. Besides learning about midos mind and the soul, they learn about the body as well.
They had to get into shape for a few months to run 10 kil. I am impressed to say the least that Menachem stuck to it and got into shape to do so.

On Fri we went to Eitz Hachaim cemetery to visit, Opa & Oma, Uncle Davi Srulowitz and Aunt Ani

It's a popular place, people are dying to get in there.

Then we got back to RBS to go for a bike ride and to show Menachem what some of us do here.
I broke some ribs Apr 1 riding my bike on the road when I hit a curb and flew off and slammed into the guard rail. B"H it's now much better, and I have been ridding easy to get back into it. Now I'm trying to commit to 3 rides  a week. Mon Wed and Fri.
We will see how it goes. We have 150 other bikers in RBS mostly mountain biking, which is way nicer then the road, better exercise and safer. We have a yahoo group where we post rides, http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/rbsbiking/ and we all track our rides with a GPS program called http://www.endomondo.com We can share our past rides and keep track of tracks, speed distance, calories burned, and see other riders in real time.
Menachem rode with Yosef and me on Fri and had a nice 1st ride.
You can see our ride mapped on the interactive map here:

 

We road right before Shabbos when is was cooler. We then had a nice shabbos. Sun Menachem came to Mishna Shiur with me in the morning, than when to Beit Guvrin to see some ancient underground caves and cities. We then came back to RBS picked up Yehuda from Gan and took him to another local hike to Khirbet Qeiyafa know in the Tenach (Shmuel) as Sharayim (2 gates) this is a fortress about 10 min from RBS that dates back to before the 1st temple and was part of Dovid Hamelechs kingdom. It's one of the oldest walled in cities in Israel. Amazingly a lot of the wall is still there. You can see RBS Gimel from it See http://qeiyafa.huji.ac.il/

Menachem then had a great week. Unfortunately when he was running He lost his  bag with his passport and camera so lost lots of photos of the trip.
He was in Yerushalaim for Shabbos and stayed by Ali and Rechi Motzei Shabbat and sun night.

Mon. morning he got a new passport from the US consulate in Jerusalm then came to RBS. We toured RBS Gimel and saw them building a new city then went home and rested. We then went for a nice ride though Emek Haaela, where Doivd and Goliyath had their battle.

We road though apricot orchards with thousands of trees.

Menachem was amazed at how much wheat was grown in the fields.

 We stopped for mincha under a tree which was likely where Dovid Hamelech hung out.

After practicing some downs and ups.

We were ready for the Big downhill ride!

We road till the sun came down. Then called Elkie who was so kind to come pick us up about 15 kil away.

Then I drove him to the airport. Next one the comes here can get the same tour, you just have to start getting into shape. Who's NEXT???