Shalom All!

I have already published a few blog posts on this website with pictures of my trips to Jerusalem, that were always a big success with you. These photos (here) got over a 100 comments, countless tweets and dozens of emails. Additionally, These photos (here) also got that much attention.

You said the pictures bring tears to your eyes. That made me a very happy man.

A lot of people have emailed me and asked me to send them printed photos. Some inquired how they can buy copies of the photos. However, I don’t feel right selling pictures that I’m willing to give for free for your enjoyment. On the other hand, as you know printing pictures and sending international letters can get quite expensive, especially if you send dozens at a time. I’m sure you know money is tight for me and I really can’t afford to send so many international letters right now.

A few days ago I got an idea, which I want to try out with you all. I thought to myself – what if I send printed photos to people who donate money to this cause? That way you could get printed photos, and I could get some desperately needed donations.

So here’s what I’m offering, and please let me know what you think: Anyone who donates $10 or more, will get a real letter in the mail with real printed photos. After subtracting the costs of sending you letters, I will still have a few dollars left over.

So how is it going to work? First, click on this orange button to donate via PayPal :

After you donate, I’ll have your contact details. I’ll email you to verify the address you want the letter to be sent to. I also think you can add your own text in a custom field there, so you could write all the necessary details.

For any questions, comments or suggestions, you can always email me to: contact@tweetyourprayers.org .

What do you think?

Yours with love from the Holy Land

Shalom all!
A couple of weeks ago I took another box full of your prayers to the Kotel (the Western Wall) and stashed them in the crevices of the Wall. Along with me was a crew of the Japanese TV station NHK. If you send your prayer between the 1st and the 14th of October – than your prayer is in these photos!
Here are some of the pictures I took, you can click your mouse button on any of them to enlarge:

All your prayers in a nice wooden box:

I love the way the prayers form a ‘blue river’ of paper:

Here’s the camera man making sure he has a good shot of the ‘river’:

And finally, mission accomplished:

If you can help, please consider making a donation to help keep this service operational. Click on the button below:

So little time these days, I can’t manage to resize and edit all the pictures I took in Jerusalem the past two weeks. For the time being I upload one at a time, like when I showed you the Kotel has Wifi or much more importantly the note for Gilad Shalit. I’m slowly working on the majority of the images – and hope to soon upload a gallery section to this site with beautiful and important pictures of Jerusalem, the Western Wall, and of course – your prayers being put in the crevices of the Wall.

Until then, I thought you might find this picture amusing. I started laughing when this error message popped; if you look carefully it has the all too known “the application has committed and illegal operation and will shut down”. I guess there’s no escape from that .

GPS Fail

Good thing my lovely assistant  knew the road and let me doze of in the passenger’s seat. click on the image to enlarge.