“Beeing Ultra“
A loud voice in my back screamed in a nearly
crying tone: “messiah“. I turned around and in
front of me a men with closed eyes, covered with
a prayer shawl and holding a bundle of a palm, a
lemon and a branch in his hands.
This scene not out of a freaky movie, it was at the
Western Wall in Jerusalem during Sukkoth, an
intimate moment, a special tradition.
Nearly 250.000 Haredim live in Jerusalem, the
number of children per women is up to 6.2 and
the tradition and believes are more strickter
than elsewhere.
Who ever visit neighbourhoods like Meah Shearim,
right next to the modern and western city
life of new Jerusalem, feels in a world far away
from ours. Century old buildings and black
dressed men uniformed with hats and suits flit
around the streets deeply in thoughts about the
upcoming holy holiday.
In total there are 14 different holidays, all are
important for the Jewish tradition and all have
different practices.
My series „being ultra“ tries to gives a small
insight in a few of these holidays and the sub cosmos
that has such a unique character.
