Zedekiah’s Cave

Today was one of those Daf Yomi coincidence days.

Last night I made plans to go to Zedekiah's Cave today, near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. It's pretty cool. Literally cool, actually – it's a nice temperature down there out of the sun. The inside of the cave has an area of about two football fields ("football" still means "American football" to this oleh hadash) and averages the height of a four-story building. Who knew that such a huge, quiet space exists down there under the Arab markets?

So that's one thing I did today on Jerusalem Day. And guess what? By total coincidence, the cave is also mentioned on today's daf, Eruvin 61b!