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InteGRATion into
GRATeFULLness
Singing&Sounding keeps me Sound
I'll give in the desert (trees): cedar,
myrtle, oil-tree
and nine other magnificent
prophecies
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lyrics:
Isaiah 41:19 |
tune: unknown to me |
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| These trees play a role
but in a very practical command in Nehemia's
time |
I will give
in the desert
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Three Prophecies
September 2010
| A song of Joy about that time... From
K.i.s.s.-log May 8, 2008 (Day of Independence) on another prophecy song page |
On
September 13, 2010 I suddenly felt I should adapt this tune to a second stanza which would finally make my most quoted prophecy singable! It appears at the end of the 15 books of Prophets, which - in all Christian editions of "The Bible" - is also the end of the "Old Testament"... Maleachi 3 end |
Towards
the end of September 2010 I came across a verse from Isaiah 44 which clearly fitted the same tune, and demanded the same chorus! The prophecy, if understood literally, geographically seems to support the infamous "settlers" of the Westbank, but the chorus defies such interpretation: ye shall be a blessing for the nations! |
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First
stanza
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"Yom Qtanot- the day of small things" and two
other Prophecies
October 2010
| Out of Zion shall go forth torah... |
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On March 21-23, 2013 the last stanza attracted
an imperative
"let's not despise the day of small things",
after I heard someone - in a talkshow about Obama's
visit to Israel -
using this verse as if it was part of the daily language:
"let's not despise the day of small things"
I don't remember, to what he referred,
but what I refer to, is the 21st of December 2012,
a date towards which so many people yearned for a visible, tangible "shift"
Let's not despise the
day of small (things) and let us rejoice and let us see
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 While [Sept. 27, 2010] I was so moved by the re-discovery of "ki mi baz [despises] le-yom qtanot", I happened to hitchhike with this girl and her dog "Baz" meaning: "falcon"! |
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Discovered
on 2010_03_24, -tune
on 2010_10_ 23
A Prophecy about a New Biosphere:
a
video about "7 minutes of cuteness", put on facebook by Elah,
my granddaughter on March 1, 2013
And
in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground; and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and will make them to lie down safely [Hosea 2:20) |
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| I was rehearsing this song on the way to the
pool, |
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discovered a similar verse and discerned for the first time, that the root "k-r-t" produced two sharply contradicting meanings: "to cut off" and from there "to exterminate" versus: "to sign a pact, to make a covenant"[as in the prophecy of Hosea ] . At the same occasion, when I read the verse that precedes this one' about the Messiah (as Christians understand "thy king, lowly and riding"), who rides on an ass and on the foal of the son of asses [asses , not ass!] 
I thought, was there a symbol in the fact, that when I asked for a donkey, a wild foal and two pregnant females were forced on me in the Succah? see about Yishmael, Bilhah and Zilpah in Succah-in-the-Desert |
Addition
on August 7, 2011 |
 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war shall be cut off and he shall speak peace unto the nations Zecharia 9:10 |
see a video about the loving embrace between a wild lion and a human
"Mr. Richardson has developed an awe-inspiring and heart-warming relationship with these ferocious felines of the South African Savanna."
January
2, 2011
Another prophecy about a new Biosphere
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the wolf will dwell with the sheep
the beginning of the tune is a plagiary of a
recent song about "the joy that forgot its cause"
I owe this song to myself! 
How?
Recently I started to read the book, which I've written almost 40 years ago,
though it was edited only 30 years ago:
the jewels of interpretations, which I picked out from the mostly technical
work of translation,
done by Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig, my father-in-law,
who died 9 years before I was born.
I owe my deep love for the Hebrew Bible to those two men,
who, just before the eruption of the Nazi epidemy,
gave Germany a gift, of which Germany is not aware until this day:
The Book of Books translated in a way, that goes to the root of the Biblical
way
to transmit messages - through stories, figures, poems and words - that help
us to live.
Since I'm opening the book before sleep randomly,
it so happened, that I came across the last page of the manuscript
which I uncovered in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the early seventies.
My comment to Isaiah 65:25b surprised me: how could I have forgotten this?
Immediately the desire arose to merge Is. 11 and Is. 65 into one sung message!
Once the song was singable, I was even more surprised, that
I understand part of the lines of Is. 65 by contrast to B-R!
And this despite the fact, that this was the very last passage, to which my
father-in-law related, before he died.
"Relating" meant: having his wife looking into his eyes, guessing
a letter, composing words and sentences and dictating those to a secretary!
HOW come, that these great men missed the magnificent metaphor of "like
water covering the sea", by saying "sea-bed"?
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 Whatever "jewels" I chose- they needed immense editing and commenting. But rarely did I add a comment of mine that surpassed my task - as this one: "Buber's proposal for Isaiah 65, 25 nicht werden sie Boeses verueben - nicht werden etwas verderben auf all dem Berg meines Heiligtums [usual English translation: They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain My comment: This passage from the so-called Trito-Isaiah (called "Collection of speeches by B-R), partly contains verbal quotes from the book of the first Isaiah, chapter 11.The 3 lines are from Is. 11:9, except that there the sentence has a continuation: [my translation of B-R's wording] for the earth is full of MY knowing, like water [plural] cover the bed of the ocean. |
I always say, that in MY future creation
there won't be that horrid phenomenon,
that animals need to feed on animals!
Up to this day humans kill and eat animals,
and some people are sad about that!
But who doubts the rightness of the "law,
that animals kill animals for food,
and are in turn killed for food by other animals?
I'm not the first one to envision such a creation,
in which animals live together.
But only recently I became of a significant fact:
The famous passage about the wolf who will dwell with the sheep
is not the only one.
First of all,
how come that this outrageous prophecy
about a new creation with different laws
appears not in the second and third Isaiah,
with their mostly idyllic prophecies about a new heaven and a new earth,
but in the first Isaiah, who usually smashes people with terrible "doom"?
It does appear a second time, much more concise, in the third Isaiah!
But what's missing there is the condition for all this harmony to occur:
that the knowing of YHWH, will fill the planet,
"like the waters which cover the ocean!"
What a pretty metaphor for saying:
just as the water and the ocean are the same ,
we are ONE, we are just aspects of the ONE,
rays of the Sun, waves of the Ocean, colors of the Light.
Once this awareness, this consciousness will permeate us,
no "God" will eat another "God" or be eaten by another "God".
The double prophecy even mentions the alternative for food:
"the lion like the cattle will eat plants!"
Isn't this fantastic?
A prophecy, voiced 2800 years ago,
and of course in line with the biblical myth,
that only after the Flood people were allowed to eat animals,
and even then under one condition, that their blood would not be eaten,
so as as to make people aware, every time they would slaugther,
that "it was not meant to be like that, even if for now we don't have an alternative!"
By the way, all the laws of "kosher" eating have the same purpose,
to make people aware,
that something is not right with eating animals, our divine kin!
| I'm frustrated
with the English translation,
The wolf and the
lamb shall feed together, |
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This time I'm learning from
B-R's translation by CONTRAST! Wolf und Lamm weiden wie eins, |
Wikipedia:
The Book of Isaiah
...The book has 66 chapters:
the first 39 chapters prophesy doom for a sinful Judah
and for all the nations of the world that oppose God,
while the last 27 prophesy the restoration of the nation of Israel
and a new creation in God's glorious future kingdom
Tradition ascribes the book to Isaiah himself,
but for over a hundred years scholars have divided it into three parts:
Proto-Isaiah (chapters 1-39),
containing the words of the 8th century BCE prophet
and 7th century BCE expansions;
Deutero-Isaiah (chapters 40-55), a 6th century BCE work
by an author who wrote under the Babylonian captivity;
and Trito-Isaiah (chapters 56-66),
composed probably by multiple authors in Jerusalem shortly after the exile
June-July, 2011
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July 6, 2011 "A Star is born" was with Idan Reichl, and the duo Nadav and Asaf sang a song, which moved me deeply, though its content is the opposite of something which I can "celebrate as right in the world": "Imma, Abba and all the rest", lyrics by Reuben Politi, who describes the feelings of a soldier "out there". He fell in the Yom Kippur War 1973. I do not want to learn to sing it, but to insert it here as a contrast to the song "If" 
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"IF" - As to the chorus: "she is not in heaven", notes
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January 20, 2011
A paradoxical, contradictory, antithetic
prophecy,
put into tune for a second time on January
19, 2011 [see context]
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I have long time held
My peace, I have been still, and refrained Myself; as a travailing woman I will cry, gasping and panting at once. 15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up pools 16 And I will lead the blind by a way that they knew not, in paths that they knew not will I guide them; I will make darkness light before them, and rugged places plain. … 18 Hear, ye deaf, and look, ye blind, that ye may see. 19 Who is blind, but My servant? Or deaf, as My messenger that I send? … Isaiah 42:14-19, with some moderations of the bi-lingual online translation of Isaiah 42 |
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The tune of the first two lines are a plagiary from the introduction
to"So Far"
the most famous song of the band "Ha-Banot
Nehama"["The Comfort Girls"],
After Ayelet's celebration
on Dec. 27, 2010, I stayed overnight with her family
and the next morning Arnon,
her brother, wanted to spend time with me.
I also listened to his learning to accompany songs on his keyboard piano.
It was Arnon, who, some years ago, made me aware of the Benot Nehama.
The song, which he now played, began with a tune, which touched me deeply.
[See a continuation of this playing in Learn&Live16:
>2011_01_28]
I asked him to let me record just this line on my digital recorder.
From then on I looked for a text which would fit it,
and lo - the verse about God as a woman-in-labor,
which had been waiting for a tune for many years -
a text of 13 syllables - fitted this tune exactly.
It took some time of letting this tune and this line imprint themselves in
my brains,
and only then did I see the line, which preceded this one, also composed of
13 syllables.
And only after this double line - in tune with the intro of "So far"
- was ingrained in me,
did the rest of the - selected - prophecy find its tune too.
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