So I left off telling you about Rabbi Dushinsky who I met Saturday morning in the Jerusalem synagogue. After shul I went to Rabbi Hoffbergs apartment for lunch along with a Rabbinical student at HUC in Jerusalem. We ate lots of good food and chicken wings.
Some interesting things about the passage area that Rabbi Hoffberg lives in:
First, it is right across from the CET academic center, about a 5 minute walk from my apartment. It is in the Lucerna building. That is a famous building where they hold the Czech version of the Oscars every year - downstairs in the 1500 person theater. They also have other events there during the year that are regularly telivised. Lucerna is also the place where every single high school prom takes place. There is a prom there every night during the prom season. Walking around at night, you say girls in big ball gowns...like cinderella gowns, and boys in tuxedos.
Hanging in the Passage is The "dead horse" which is a sculpture by the Czech artist David Cerny. It is a parody of the statue of St. Wenceslas in Wenceslas square. It is a horse hanging upside down.
The elevator that goes up to his building is one of the oldest elevators. It is just a bunch of wooden boxes that move up and down and you literaly grab the handlebar and jump in and out of the moving box. It is the original Shabbat elevator. It is not electric and you don't have to press any buttons. All you have to do is jump. You get used to it after a while but it took some explaining in order to get us up to the 3rd floor safely.
For more info and pictures of the Lucerna pasaz go to: http://www.360cities.net/image/lucerna-pasaz
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