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InteGRATion into
GRATeFULLness
Singing&Sounding keeps me Sound
Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier
| 2007_12_24 Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier |
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Playing
on my keyboard in Arad today, singing, recording none of it professonally.... by Christa-Rachel Bat-Adam |
Unlike other Christmas songs, carols, hymns,
which I still love, but do not want to sing any longer,
[see Dec.22,
Dec. 23, Dec. 25,
this song - created long ago by two great men - is still "mine".
When I was a child, I was in love with Weihnachten.
See 6 years ago, in pp46: "Light&Love&Peace&Joy?"
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What was most moving for me, was the singing together.
[I just read a sentence by Tagore:
"God respects me when I work,
but he loves me when I sing"]
There was not much happiness in my childhood
and youth,
but when Christmas arrived, I was so happy myself,
that I felt sad for the people who could not experience Christmas.
And even today, 44 years after I last celebrated Weihnachten,
I feel elated when singing this mystical song.
Bach created music, maybe the deepest music ever,
but I don't know of any other tune to a song, made by him.
It's easy to exchange the icon "Jesus" for "God",
which, after all, is also nothing but an icon.
It needs a song like this, its lyrics and its tune,
to feel and know, what is behind those icons...
Ich steh an deiner Krippe hier, O Jesu du mein Leben; Ich komme, bring und schenke dir, Was du mir hast gegeben. Nimm hin, es ist mein Geist und Sinn, Herz, Seel und Mut, nimm alles hin Und laß dir's wohlgefallen. |
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Da ich noch nicht geboren war, Da bist du mir geboren Und hast mich dir zu eigen gar, Eh ich dich kannt, erkoren. Eh ich durch deine Hand gemacht, Da hast du schon bei dir bedacht, Wie du mein wolltest werden. |
3. Ich lag
in tiefster Todesnacht, Du warest meine Sonne, Die Sonne die mir zugebracht Licht, Leben, Freud und Wonne. O Sonne, die das werte Licht Des Glaubens in mir zugericht't, Wie schön sind deine Strahlen. |
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Ich sehe dich mit Freuden an Und kann mich nicht satt sehen; Und weil ich nun nichts weiter kann, Bleib ich anbetend stehen. O daß mein Sinn ein Abgrund wär Und meine Seel ein weites Meer, Daß ich dich möchte fassen ! |
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Eins aber hoff ich wirst du mir, Mein Heiland, nicht versagen: Daß ich dich möge für und für In meinem Herzen tragen. So laß mich doch dein Kripplein sein; Komm, komm und lege bei mir ein Dich und all deine Freuden ! |
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2007_12_28 Jewish Festival Songs |
Continuation of the sequence about my German Family's visit in October 2010
Christina ~~~~~~~~~~~~~Ronnit, their aunt in Israel
~~~~~~~~~~~~~Dominika
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The next day I again met them at their hotel in Tel-Aviv
in order to drive north to Hod-Hasharon/Ramat-Hadar,
It was the first of 3 times on this day, on which I had to navigate,
which - on all these new roads, highways, junctions, intersections - was hard.
Though Regina had said, while I encountered them on the day of their arrival:
"We actually didn't want to meet anybody except
you and your family.
Since I, as a doctor of a private clinic, work up to 12-13 hours a day,
I just wanted to spend time with my own family and take it easy",
they agreed to visit Yanina in the village, in which
Regina's cousins grew up.
This I had planned beforehand, so they would get an idea
of what it was for a born Christian German and a Jewish holocaust survivor
to become and stay friends for 45 years.
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the young Germans: Dominika?, Christina?, Regina on the other side of the table
  
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that I, indeed, was there too, after Efrat had fought fiercely with me, until I agreed to be present.
I was convinced that it was better for all three Israeli families to be with their German family - without me.
But Efrat wanted them to discern the warm relationship between us - daughter-in-love , mother-in-love, son and granddaughter
 Mika and Dominika |
 Mika and Christina |
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Later in the evening of that day, November 14, 2010
with Aunt Christa-Rachel Bat-Adam from Shoham to Jerusalem
and there - the next day - from Graveyard to Brith to Graveyard,
[see
the composition at the end of Learn&Live2]
and as a closure: sitting on a bench above Mishkenot Sha'ananim
and watching the Old City of Jerusalem.
[see my sitting there in the morning with Lior Oren in
Learn&Live 3, October 15, 2010]
At that time there still was no "ease" between Regina and her aunt.
An hour before the entrance of Shabbat
we began to search for our way out from Jerusalem
and then drove down Highway 1 , till Modi'in junction.
From there they continued east - to Modi'in,
where Ronnit waited for them at a corner which they could find easily,
while I walked west, west, west, until a car picked me up,
and later another car, after much walking,
and another and another till I reached my home.
I was so relieved, that everything had worked out so wondrously -
suddenly Ronnit found enough room for them to sleep over,
and Micha invited them for the next night to Mazkeret Batya,
and I was free, free to move my pain about Regina's ongoing rejection and
fear of the coming days.
I, indeed, dedicated to this work the next 28 hours, I also wrote a letter
, I asked for help from Micha,
and in the end the miracle happened: when the family came to meet me at Arad
on Sunday 3 PM,
all tension was gone and there was no need to "sit down and talk",
for which I had pleaded with Ralf in my letter and which Regina had refused.
It was a simple togetherness, with no depth, but with no undercurrents either.
But now a few images of their Shabbat at Modi'in with Ronnit's family and
in Jerusalem, with Micha .
Not only Micha with Arnon and Ayelet came for breakfast,
before he took the German family to Jerusalem
even Immanuel - on a bike trip with his friends as usual when he is home on
Shabbat - managed to take part.
Six of my grandchildren to the left ------- Domi
(white) and Tina (black) to the
right
Domi (white) and Tina (black)
are sitting next to Itamar
In between Ronnit, my daughter, Rotem and Itamar,
two of her children,
Yael, her second daughter, embraces Ayelet, her cousin, Micha's daughter
Dominika (white) and Christina (black)
frame my six grandchildren:
Yael and Rotem to the left, Jonathan and Itamar to the right
and Micha's children, Ayelet and Arnon, in the middle