Rothenburg

Kids, did you know …

… that “Rothenburg” is German for “Stinky town”? 

 

It’s a “Rotten Berg,” get it? 

 

Well, maybe that’s not quite right.  I wonder if you know what it means for real. 

God’s BBQ

In the Old Testament they offered sacrifices.  A sacrifice was when they killed an animal and cooked it over fire.  It was like our barbeques of today.  Have you smelled that good smell of steak roasting on the grill?  That’s the smell that went up to God from the children of Israel.  Then … they got to eat the meat! 

Israel’s Retreat

The annual family retreat in Israel wasn’t held in a hotel, but it was really a ‘family encampment.’  In late summer the families would travel to Jerusalem every year and “camp-out” for a week or so.  They would collect palm branches and build little shelters that were like tents, and they’d live together there.  All over Jerusalem were thousands and thousands of families who met every year at the same time and had their little palm-branch huts built next to one another.  They ate BBQ from the sacrifices, and learned lessons from the great rabbis. 

Thumbs

&

Big Toes

 

Wanna hear a weird story? 

 

Did you know there was a king in Canaan named Lord Bezek who had the strangest dinner table—underneath it, he had 70 kings crawling around! 

 

(It must have been a big table) 

 

But that’s not all—they had NO BIG TOES … and NO THUMBS! 

(How would that feel?)

 

See if you can find out why.  

(Judges 1.7)

This large-eared guy is NOT a rabbi.

“Gimme a taste of that BBQ”

“He who has ears to hear,

let him hear.”

- Jesus