(Sergio) In the last episode,
we have pruned the olive tree,
picked the olives, separated the leaves,
cured a handful of black and green olives for eating.
And, now, we are ready to take them to the olive press.
And, look how much we've got. An entire bag.
It is heavy!
So, now, we're gonna take it...
to a...
olive press.
Come take a look how much we have!
Wow.
So, I've never been to the olive press.
I have no idea how it's done.
But, luckily, we have a good guide.
- Let's go.
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(Sergio) We've got a little bit of a problem.
My parents just came back from Lithuania.
They visited my grandma.
I need to go them up from Haifa.
They took a train from the airport to Haifa.
But, at the same time, we are going to the press,
and I didn't time this right.
So, what's gonna happen is
we're gonna start filming in the olive press,
and then I'll hop in the car, and I'll go drive and pick them up.
I hope it's gonna work out.
So, Reineh is an interesting Arabic village or town.
It's located right between Nazareth and Kafr Kanna,
so Suhail is asking for directions
for the olive press.
Are we lost?
So, I'm just following Suhail.
We're in the middle of Reineh,
and we can't really find the olive press.
But, you know, we'll ask a few people around,
or Suhail will ask a few people around.
We'll find it eventually.
This could be it.
I see olive buckets. Yeah, zoom in on those.
Okay, we're here.
Let's go and talk to them.
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So, because there are other people pressing,
we have to stand in line.
And, until our bag is pressed,
we need to wait until 3:30, 4 o'clock.
So, in four hours or so.
And, we can come and film and see how they do it.
So, we'll have to come back later,
after we pick up Mom and Papa.
- (Sergio) Let's do it. - (Rhoda) Let's go.
(Sergio) Awesome.
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All right. So, the olive press is an incredible symbolism
in the Hebrew language and in the Bible.
How do you say "olive press" in the Hebrew language?
If you have said "gat shmanim,"
then you are absolutely correct.
Now, try to think about that word "gat shmanim."
- Gat shmanim. - Gat shmanim.
What does it resemble?
What does it mean to you?
- Gat shmanim. - Gat shmanim.
Gat shmanim. Gat shmanim. Gathsemane. Gethsemane.
- Gethsemane! - Yes!
- Yes! - And that's what it was, right?
That's where Jesus had went to pray,
and that's why that place is called Gethsemane,
because it's an olive press!
Yes. It's believed to be the garden
that had an olive press in it.
Wow. Okay.
So, if we go back to the times of Jesus,
they had there a 1st-century olive press
right in the garden.
Now, what would that look like?
I understand it had two stages, right?
What is the first stage?
So, the first stage is the crushing stage.
The second stage is the pressing stage.
And that's it. There are two stages.
Okay. So, first, you crush them and then you press them.
And crushing means crushing everything, with the seeds.
You don't take the seeds out of the olives?
No, no. Everything.
That's what we're gonna see later today too.
They're gonna crush everything.
- Yes. - Cool.
Okay. So, the first stage,
what did they use to crush those olives?
So, there's a smart mechanism,
a big bowl or a basin
that has a very flat ground,
and it's round.
And on top of it,
also goes in a round way a huge stone.
Now, imagine a millstone, a small stone.
This one is so much bigger than that.
And let's just say, it's extremely heavy.
(Sergio) Right. And you could probably move it by hand,
but it's mainly used to be--
- (Rhoda) Mules or donkeys. - (Sergio) Mules, yeah.
- But it is so heavy, that stone. - Yes.
And, now, here is the first symbolism.
Jesus goes to the olive press,
and He is being crushed
by the weight of the sin of the world.
And what is about to happen to Him too.
And what happened, yeah.
And that's that heavy rock crushing those olives.
Incredible symbolism there.
And, then, we go to the second stage.
- Yes. - The second stage is...
- It's the pressing stage. - the pressing.
And it has, I understand, three presses, not just one.
You don't just press everything from one time.
No, no.
Okay. So, what's the first one?
So, the first press is just like every first fruit.
It goes to the temple as an offering.
It goes to the Lord.
So, that's the pure olive oil.
- Yes. - It's the extra, extra...
- What do you call it, virgin? - Virgin.
Whatever we call it today, extra virgin,
but even purer than that
because there's no machinery used on it.
Okay. So, how was that first press done?
You put the crushed olives into the baskets.
(Rhoda) Yes. In big baskets. They look like tires.
They have holes in the middle, so we squeeze them at the sides.
Now, imagine putting those baskets on top of each other.
They become so heavy
that they act like a pressing agent, and some oil starts to seep.
You don't even press it.
It's own weight produces that oil of the crushed olives.
It is the purest type of oil, and that oil goes to the Lord.
And, then, the second press, it would actually start pressing the oil.
- Yeah, with a machine. - A machine. Okay.
Now, that machine I saw, you showed it to me
in Nazareth Village, it had like a seesaw mechanism.
Sort of like a seesaw.
It goes up from one place and goes down from the other.
Okay. So, you press that olive oil from the second press,
and that's considered still to be good for personal use?
- Yes - Cooking, drinking.
- It's good oil. It's clean oil. - Medicine?
We don't press it too much, too hard.
It's used for cooking, medicine, cosmetics.
Okay. It's good oil.
It's good enough for humans to use, yes.
It's kosher.
And then we've got the third press.
- Yeah. - Now, that press, I understand,
you squeeze the life out of those olives.
- Yes, yes. - You squeeze everything.
And, at this point, the oil is at a poor quality.
It's not the best.
And, because we press so hard,
we use every weight measure we have.
And what would they use it for?
So, they used that for external uses.
- Okay. Like a... - It's used for...
- a daily lamp? - Yes. The daily oil lamp.
Also for soaps, since they boil it or cook it and all that.
Your grandma used to do soaps, right,
- Yes, yes. - out of olive oil.
- My dad's mom. - That is so cool.
We should buy some olive oil soap.
Remember, in TJ Maxx, we found one and it was 4 bucks?
That wasn't kosher. No.
- You liked it. - It didn't have the rabbi's stamp.
Oh, come on.
It was on sale. It was good enough.
Yeah.
Now, think about this.
Three presses, the third one being the strongest press,
the hardest press, so it squeezes everything out.
- Yeah. - Now, think of the symbolism here.
Jesus goes to the Gethsemane garden and prays, how many times?
Three times if we align the Gospels.
Wow. He prays three times if we align all the Gospels together.
And what happens on the third press,
the hardest press, according to the 1st century--
- He sweats blood. - He sweats blood.
So, think of that symbolism. How beautiful is that?
You've got an olive press that forces things
to crush everything out of those olives.
It's a very heavy and pressing stone.
It is so heavy,
that it's the weight of the sin of the world on Jesus, crushing Him.
His life was nothing but bitter.
The olives are bitter, extremely bitter without pressing.
And then He goes through the olive press,
through Gethsemane, which is the olive press, crushed.
And, then, prays three times,
and the third time He prays and blood comes out.
Okay. I think our parents are coming in from the train.
- Let's go, let's go, let's go. - Let's go.
- And, then, back to the press. - Yes.
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In case you were wondering:
How are we picking up my parents in the mall?
Well, that's because the train
that goes directly from the airport goes to Haifa,
and there's a station in the mall, next to Haifa,
and that's where we're picking them up.
The train enters inside of the mall,
so we park in the mall.
We go to the second floor. We could have a coffee here.
That's where we sat, right here.
And, then, we can wait for the people to come off the train,
pick them up and go back home.
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(Sergio) Whoa.
Smell it.
(Sergio) Whoa.
It's good.
Mmm!
Okay
So, we've got half a tank.
Half a tank of extra virgin olive oil,
right from our tree outside.
So, you saw it.
That entire tree took us three days to harvest.
And, then, we put it into a bag and took it to the press,
and we've got half a tank.
This is about 10 kilograms,
about 20 pounds or so of olive oil.
It's incredible.
So, think of that symbolism. How beautiful is that?
You've got an olive press that forces things
to crush everything out of those olives.
That is pressed completely.
That is a symbolism of the weight
of what is going to happen to Him,
what He is undergoing, up to the...
death of Christ on the cross.
-For our sins. -For our sins.
But it didn't end there, did it?
- No. - No.
After Jesus died on the cross,
three days later...
- He resurrected. - He rose from the dead.
Praise the Lord!
- Death could not hold Him. - No.
He was sinless. He did not commit any sin.
He took our sins upon Himself.
Who am I that I am worthy to be saved?
I am bound to be destroyed, like water spilled on the ground.
But the Lord provided a way.
It is the most greatest love I've ever experienced.
Amen.
So, if you don't know Jesus yet...
Get to know Him!
This is your chance. Today is the day of salvation.
Romans 10:13 says:
Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord
will be saved.
- Yeah. - Not for our works,
but for what Christ has done for us on that cross,
being crushed by my own weight, and everyone else,
you and me, all together.
By faith.
If you believe that Jesus has done that for you,
if you call out on His name
and recognize Him as the Lord and Savior,
your personal Savior,
you can have a personal relationship with God.
You can walk with Him today,
like the Bible story says, Enoch walked with God.
It is still possible today.
We can walk with God, today!
Yes. Amen! Every day.