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See below: 2010_12_23 old slides about my bus-life
between 1986 and 1989,
interspersed with 2 docs about my Partnership
involvement in 1975 and 1977
InteGRATion into GRATeFULLness
Close-ups of my Past
2007_05_24: Closeup of 1970_03_12
Unsent Letter to David Flusser, my Ph.D. tutor, 1970
[In May 2013 , I came across this
paper clip. I copied it without knowing, that 6 years earlier I had inserted
the entire letter here]
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to
former accidental closeup of my Past
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next accidental closeup of my Past
December 24, 2010, continued
I went to a shop for scanning old slides and old negatives.
Their order is accidental.
On this page I'm inserting photos of the last stage before "Succah
in the Desert": 1989
While I was still parking above the Mediterranean
Sea, summer 1989,
shortly before I left forever for the Desert in order to realize my
vision,
all three children came to visit, but there was only one grandchild, Elah!
And Micha was still tied up with Ronya, my daughter's husband's sister!
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"Partnership Diary", 1977,
p. 140b-153 continued
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"Liberty
through Responsibility", 1975, page 46 continued ~~~~ [first insert in Learn&Live 6, last in Closeup to my Past]  |
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To
my regret , I don't recognize the girl, who is painting the "Shma Yisrael" above the door of my bus. The Bible lies open next to her, under the painting of Mona of two women (where is this painting now?) On this day, Dec. 23, 2010 I by chance opened the chapter with the Shma Yisrael in my book Franz Rosenzweig Der Mensch und sein Werk, Gesammelte Schriften 4 : Sprachdenken im Uebersetzen, 2. Band Arbeitspapiere zur Verdeutschung der Schrift, edited by Rachel Bat-Adam Martinus Nyjhoff Publishers 1984 which shows how Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig worked on transferring the original text of the Hebrew Bible into German: Only the five books of the Torah and the four books of Samuel and Kings were transferred into English according to the same principles of interpretation. Everett Fox did not follow Rosenzweig's suggestion to give a special "kolon" (unit of breath) to "You are to love"! [Rosenzweig: "since human love always has its object which in "be-loving to your neighbor (as one) like yourself" [Leviticus 19:18] is expressed with a Dative, while Loving God is expressed with an Accusative. Deuteronomy 6: 4-6 Hearken O Israel: YHWH our God, YHWH (is) One! You are to love YHWH your God with all your heart, with all your being, with all yours substance |
"Partnership
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"Liberty through Responsibility", 1975, page 46
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The contrast between the Sea, which I left on Sept.25, 1989,
and the Desert, which became my home from then on, is magnificent
[see "bus-steps"
and the
beginning in the desert]
But "Desert" does not necessarily mean "bleak"
landscapes, even though I like th0se, too!
This is the area around
"Lotz Cisterns", built 3000 years ago, 30 km west of "my"
Succayah.
where I parked my bus, when I got leave from my employer "Koor"
during the Pesach 1989.
At that time the area seemed to fit for establishing the scientific model
("Beta-site")
of my vision.
But Borot-Lotz is a National Park, and it was the ranger who lived there who
gave me a better idea:
"Let's make an experiment at the Ramon-Crater,
not too far from Mitzpe-Ramon"!
That's why and where I organized "the first Succah Experiment" on
July 20-22.
It was also the only experiment, since by the end of the workshop,
when we all sat in the "succah" of Rachel R. and her son Yuval,
and everyone summarized his/her experience with his/her succah,
I suddenly knew, that I was ready, and that I could start 2 months later,
on Rosh-Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.
Here was the location of our "Succah-Experience",
a 2 1/2 days workshop with 14 people at the edge of the Ramon-Crater on July
20-22, 1989.
This was the "succah" of Rachel R., the teacher in a Haifa college,
who was ready to work with her students on what a "succah" would
look like.
At the end of the semester some 30 students came up with 30 proposals, but
none was simple enough and ingenious enough to suit my vision.
And yet, this thinking, imagining, creating of Rachel R. and her students
must have prepared the "quantum-leap" through the sculptor Dani
Kish.
I met him "by chance" at the bank - out of all places - at Mitpze
Ramon, in December 1989,
4 weeks after I had moved my bus to the nameless wadi below "The Hills
of the Angels' Flight".
"Dani, I was told, that you work not only
with stone, but also with wood!
Could you image what a "succah" would look like and be constructed
of?"
He did not think for one second, but answered:
"Yes, like we lived at the beach of Sharem-e-Sheikh [before
Israel returned Sinai
to Egypt in 1979]:
a triangle of poles, like telephone or electricity poles, a few boards across
the poles,
material agains rain and sun to cover the triangle, and above all: palm-fronds!"
I asked if he would agree to build seven succahs
and how much it would cost!
I hired him on the spot:
"I can start, whenever you, not me, you! will have organized all the
materials:
the poles, the boards, something against rain and sun, and the palm-fronds!"
There is a comment written on the frame of this slide:
"The light in the desert was a spot of
light in those difficult days!"
At the edge of the Ramon-Crater, opposite the
Observatory, I began my desert-life & work,
at that time still painfully plagued by a partner who was often afflicted
with psychotic attacks.
After 7 weeks - we moved bus and minibus to the Wadi of present "Succah-in-the-Desert".
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"Partnership Diary", 1977, p. 155
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"Liberty through Responsibility", 1975, page 47-48
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After I was "shown" the "appointed"
wadi, the distance to the next town, Mitzpe-Ramon, was 7 km.
A jeep had to be bought, and was financed by Anke
Ristenpart, then my best friend in Germany.
The frame of the slide says: "Cars got stuck
in the mud, 1991".
Yes, I recall especially one dire incident of stuck cars: It was night and
the Bedouin neighbors came:
"Please help us with your jeep! Our tractor
with the watertank got stuck in the mud!"
Though I feared, that my little jeep could not help a tractor, I needed to
demonstrate solidarity.
When the jeep got stuck too, I walked all the way through the night to Ilan
Dvir at the Alpacca-Farm.
He came with a huge shovel-dozer or something like that and - got stuck too.
We all had to let go and wait until the mud would dry up.
I remember our walk back to the farm - it was the only time that Ilan opened
up to a "real" talk...
When we arrived at the farm, he took his car and brought me home to my bus
near the Succayah.
[see a note How
I've been LEARNING to LIVE - click CTRL/F and put "Dvir" in
search]
Among the helpful people at Mitzpe-Ramon -the Black
Hebrews were the most comforting ones,
for they, too, had problems - enormous problems - with the authorities, and
they, too, were poor.
It's sad to see Aviel, the leader, with his two wifes, and to learn, how
everything fell apart later.
One of the wifes, Yokhevet, second to the
left, was our cook in the Succayah for half a
year.
[See Succah
Diary, Fragment 3, click CTRL/F and put "Yokhevet" in search]
In contrast to the Black Hebrews - a religious woman
from Jerusalem , with her 6th (?) child - as a guest in Succah in the Desert..
See a photo (not a slide) of the same
scene in .integration-2001-2003
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"Partnership Diary", 1977, p. 140b-153 |
"Liberty through Responsibility", 1975, page 49
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Believe it or not, but this is a tree, a lonely tree,
in "my" desert: an Atlantic Oak, which I admired (in 1990-91)
Another granddaughter is called according to a desert-plant,
though not a tree, but a shrub: the
so symbolic rotem.
Some rotem-shrubs grow in the wadi, which leads from the road Mitzpe-Ramon-Observatory
to "Succah-in-the-Desert".
This slide was taken in the USA, - I don't recall by
whom it was given to me,
but as a contrast to the beginning of my life in the desert I want to remember,
that during the first 15 years in Israel there were only two things , for
which I felt a longing in my former country:
the sounds of church bells and the forests...
Today, 2010, this is nothing but a mental memory. I prefer the desert, since
"it does not hide the landscape".
[see
a short sequence of slides around a birth in 1966 and around a birth in 1991]
continuation
of the sequence of old slides about Succah-in-the-Desert
interspersed with 2 related documents about my Partnership
involvement in 1975 & 1977