They played a nasty trick on us. This is a picture of the Promenade, a stone platform that overlooks all of Jerusalem. For the moment I'm going to forget the absolute wonder I had of actually being there, the incomprehensible history of the place, and what sacrifices were made to enable me to stand there in the first place. We were there for a very long time, I'd say almost two hours. Near the end of that time, the speaker casually mentioned that this was Mount Moriah, that is to say, I was standing on or very near the place Abraham took Isaac to sacrifice him during one of God's little fits of mischief. That took me totally by surprise, and I am still filled with wonder at the very idea of it. But they could have told me earlier!
