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Rosh Hashanah-New Year

2007_09_12 Eve of Rosh-Hashanah

lyrics: Shmuel Bas

tune: Immanuel Amiran

The summer is gone , the great heat, a new year has arrived for all, winds are blowing, birds are wandering the cold days are coming close Look and see, I was small yesterday, the summer is gone and I'm already big a new year has begun today, Please be good, and may you come for peace

A Rosh Hashanah Blessing for my small children, 1968, (Immanuel 5, Ronnit 3, Micha 2) asking them to rejoice in everything good that happens to them, every day anew

2009_09_30
I heard Mika sing a sweet Rosh-Hashanah song.
Perhaps next year she'll be able to teach me the tune:

to former song    to next song

2011

En-JOY-ing and growing with Mika and my Family following the documentation "Mika's Heaven on Earth", inserted since Song Game 2007_01_01

Shoham- June 28-July 3, 2011,
continued from the togetherness with Mika

Mika learns to use my digital recorder, sings or makes fun.

Her two first songs, which came spontaneously
(from the second I cropped out some pauses and half a sentence which I couldn't understand)
and are based on a famous Succot song - Succot
- seems to have prepared the idea of "the house in the Desert".
In this song, as usual when she doesn't understand a word,
she - instead of "succah mefu'aeret" sings "succah bo'eret",
thus "Shlomit" in Naomi Shemer's song builds a "burning succah" instead of a "luxurious succah"
"a big house for her grandchildren" (and she laughs about her joke)

   

Arad- July 9, 2011,

"Pharao begs the Children of Israel: "Please let me join you in your Desert-House!" They agreed. And God agreed, too."

Listen to Mika's story: "If it only were true!" The house in the Desert The original version of the "Memory-Book"

"Once upon a time all the Jews were working very hard. Then in the night - without Pharao seeing it - they built a house for themselves. Then Pharao begged: "Please let me join you, I won't destroy anything!" They allowed it. And God allowed it, too. And then all the Children of Israel came there. And then God let a colorful garden sprout for them, so they would have fun. And they had all they needed (whispering: Grandma, I'll also say: "if only it were true") If only it were true. For if it were true, one would have truly made for them a "Memory-Book". Therefore, recorder! please tell God that he'll do that!" Grandma: I had "no time" to find out, what she means by "sefer zikhronot" = Memory-Book, or simply "Memoirs".

When Mika came, I brought her all the things she could play with. She wanted me to place everything on my bed and started to play with the magnets, while her parents and I sat and talked outside on the veranda. After a while she came and said: "come with me". She showed me a creation and told a story, interrupting herself several times, in order to explain the process of the creation: "First they built their house (pointing to the tiny bricks), then Pharao and the children of Israel came and sat in it (pointing to the different kinds of little balls), then God caused a garden to sprout around it." I was so fascinated , that I asked her, if she - already used to my digital recorder - would tell the story again, and she did so. Later she "wrote" the "Book of Memory", "When I built a house in the desert..." but she wasn't pleased with her writing, and she left it insisting : "It's lost, it's lost!

While I had prepared the kind of special potato-salad, which I learnt in my home-country, so as to remind Immanuel,
the "masterchef-candidate" himself made his wonderful vegetable-salad and - new for me- cooked a delicious Polenta
("cut the kernels in half while still on the cob,
then with the back of the knife cut them off, to retrieve as much of the juice as possible,
then add milk and butter and some spices, and cook this dough while constantly stirring")

There were pretty scenes in the pool of Arad, worthy to be photographed,
but I was part of the games, which Mika invented, and couldn't use the camera.
And when I met my landlords with Lior and Amit and made them encounter my children,
so that my pilot-son could soothe Meital's phobia towards their already booked flight to L-A,
I couldn't find the kids, Lior, Amit and Mika, in order to take a picture of their togetherness.
but then - on our way out from the pool , I caught this picture of the threesome!

Mika was still in her pool-robe, when we came back for another hour in my home. "Now pluck a pomegranate!" I said, though Efrat had been against it ("constipation"!) This was only one of the complaints... "Is it too much to ask to get normal milk here?" "I buy 2 bags and put one in the freezer, so I'll go to the grocery only once in 2 weeks!" I had unfreezed the milk in time , but ... I'm telling this because later Mika mocked her mother: "normal milk!" We laughed. Imma: "Why are you eavesdropping, Mika!" "My hearing is very acute, you know!" Seeing the car on this photo, I remember: When they arrived - I went out to meet the family joyously, but Immanuel, when passing the open gate and looking into "my" veranda, made a face: "What's that car supposed to do there!" "It's my landlords' car and it's their parking-lot". "I've never seen this before!" "Because I used to ask them to park it outside, when you came!" That's how a rare visit at Arad began, but as the pictures show, there were mostly joyous experiences, and as to the triggers, I truly acted as a "lightning rod". In the end Efrat said: "Don't think, I suffered! I enjoyed it!" (despite her terrible suffering from the heat outside and inside her body.)

As to veranda: I had invested great effort in making it inhabitable for Hathra at the end of May.
This was the first chance to see, if it was not only beautiful (as I saw it...) , but also comfortable.
Both, Efrat and Immanuel, did not like it at all, not beautiful, not comfortable, not suiting Rachel!
"What was so nice, was your "zulla" style, everyone sat on the floor and could see everyone else."
So I asked my son to help me, re-establish the former arrangement, and in fact, I preferred it, too!

On the now re-arranged veranda of Grandma, with the now more pleased Efrat and with Mika's own painting on her summer-school shirt

Just when they were about to leave, Mika discovered this unfamiliar beatle. I didn't have the time to choose a camera-option which would have shown its beauty, and especially the kind of face on its back. "You must set it free - on a leaf - it's suffering", said Mika

Continuation of "En-JOY-ing and Growing with Mika and my Family" in SongGame 2007_09_13