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InteGRATion into
GRATeFULLness
Singing&Sounding keeps me Sound
ROTEM
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a correspondance with Rotem on February 5, 2009 +
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Playing&Singing
for Rotem
on her Bat-Mitzvah: her uncle Immanuel and her grandma Rachel |
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 See images of the Rotem-shrubs in the wadi, that leads from the Observatory to Succah in the Desert: in Closeup to my past and in .integration-2001-2003-God has Evolved |
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February
1994 , in
Succah in the Desert, Elah, my eldest grandchild & Rotem's cousin, then age six, whose firm correction of my beginning of a song for Rotem gave birth to the mystical narrative of the song 
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The second child of my daughter Ronnit, born on May 24, 1993 was given the name of Eliyahu's desert shrub ["broom"] ROTEM in Latin "Retama Raetam" 
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Rotem 7 weeks before her 14th birthday, with Mika, her youngest cousin = my
tenth grandchild
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Links in Hebrew
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Following my understanding and new lekh-lekhâ on January 1, 2009, that - after 7 years - I should no longer create new pages on my 2 websites, but intermingle the evidence of new experiences with that on existing pages, I'm inserting here a correspondance with Rotem on February 5, 2009, as a reminiscence of an immensely fruitful encounter with her 2 days later - in the presence of Tomer.
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2009_07_26 I follow my understanding and new lekh-lekhâ on January 1, 2009, that - after 7 years - I should no longer create new pages on my 2 websites, but intermingle the evidence of new experiences with that on existing pages. Here are five inserts about Rotem's visit with Grandma in July 20-25, 2009 Arad ~~~ Mitzpe-Ramon ~~~ Arad
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After Jibreel had left and we again entered the photos
on Facebook
- about the Nir School of the Heart and about the Democratic School of Modi'in
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Tzippi appeared - it was 23:30!
I had a great desire for the two girls to meet each other again
(see how Tzippi helped me with Tomer and Rotem
on the page of the 1st
insert )
So we had another good communication until almost an hour
after midnight.
When we were about to go to bed - one last time according to the solution
I had found -
Rotem suggested, that we should go into the desert at seven and eat breakfast
outside.
"It may not yet be too hot then! I'll tell my cellphone
to wake us up at 6:45".
"Where should we go?"
I asked Rotem in the morning.
There were 3 options. She chose one.
And again and again we arrived at a junction.
"Where should we go now? " And she
chose.
After half an hour we found shade in the Kidod Wadi,
which is below the Kidod hills and the "Rakhaf" hosting business,
where I
had lived in my tent in 2004.
This time Rotem had "a question for Grandma":
"I was impressed by what Tzippi told yesterday,
- how she decided to go to the Lake of Tiberias
and spend time all alone, without any friends.
I now have 4 days ahead of me - all alone at my home.
Only Jonathan will be there, but he'll either sleep or be at his job.
I don't want to go on with my holiday routine:
computer~~~television~~~being with friends etc.
I want to go away and be alone.
But how should I do that?"
We'll see, if I could be a clear "sounding-board" for her....
Again I allowed myself to take only two photos:
of Rotem's profile in the shade of our rock-niche,
with the most eastern houses of Arad above,
and a little pretty wadi in front of us,
which I would have liked to walk in,
if there would have been time.
But now the time of our togetherness was over,
we played some more pieces on flute and keyboard,
until Uri, Rotem's father came and took her with him.
What about my double terror of this encounter,
as voiced in that "Communication with Deity"?
It wasn't easy, when Rotem had her "moods"
but did not want to share any feelings.
On Friday morning there even occurred mutual triggering,
but as to my part - I shared what little hole I had discerned.
Conclusion and Completion:
If "Heaven-on-Earth" expresses in these three:
grate-full-ness, zest-full-ness, full-fill-ment,
then our togetherness was not too far away...
May the three images exemplify what this implies:
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ago, when I "settled"
in Arad, Efrat, my daughter-in-love, gave me a tiny pot with a kind of cactus. The cactus grew and grew and I divided it from its root into several parts. One of them I planted in my desert-soil garden. When it grew and grew, it transformed into a sabra-cactus! (I've talked about this cactus again and again on this site, but having put the word into my "search" no many results were shown!) With its dangerous thorns it did not exactly fit into the surrounding plants. Then, when my landlord needed to drive his tractoron through "my" garden, the cactus had a chance to be transplanted to the edge of the garden, close to what I call "the Satans-Shrubs". There it didn't bother anyone, but it also wasn't noticed by anyone. And now - the day before Rotem arrived - it suddenly bloomed! with a yellow shining glorious blossom, yes with two blossoms! By the evening they had wilted away and Rotem did not get to see them. It was only on her last day, that a third blossom opened up.... |
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When I first came to Israel, the generation of Jews born in the Land of Israel, and then in the State of Israel, were called "Sabres", indicating: thorny outside, sweet inside. For a sabra-fruit - once it is freed from its thorny husk - is declicious indeed. In the time-line of sabre-children Rotem is a late-comer, one hundred years after the first generation. But then - she is not any sabra! She is the daughter of my first Israel born daughter. And she is the granddaughter of a German-Christian, Jewish-Israeli woman, who came to this planet, in order to feel into the double role of perpetrator-victim, which will no longer be played when the conditions of Heaven-on-Earth will be lived. |
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May 24, 2010
Rotem allowed me to insert this wondrous document on
my website:
Rotem's 17th Birthday or "Feast of Self-Love"
17 + 1 Thanksgivings and three Desires
which Rotem, formulated with the support of Grandma
in Arad, via phone
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Lea Goldberg,
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As to the Grandma-Birthday-Talk for Rotem's
18th birthday, see within
Mika's pages