No the picture is not of an olive press. It is of the olive trees at the Garden of Gethsemane – Gethsemane which means olive press. Amir gave a beautifully illustrative description of the increasing isolation that Jesus must have felt in his last days as all the light in his world slowly went out and then how it slowly came back after his resurrection and then multiplied many fold to encompass the earth. He compared it to the Farewell Symphony by Haydn. It was a very lovely analogy especially coming from a secular Jew.
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