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Jewish Festival Songs
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updated on October 2, 2008

and the many Chanuka-songs from December 3 onward

My own song for Pesach, created for my own Pesach-Hagada in 1978

"It was not with our fathers that YHWH made this covenant, but with us we these here today all of us alive" [Deuteronomy 5:3, see also 29:13-14]

See a video with a chain of Festival Songs - from Purim till Shavuoth - sung by popular Israeli singers

Other Songs I know and sing, I'll sing, record and insert here - in time.

Rosh Ha-Shanah Yom Ha-Kippurim Succot Chanukka Tu-bi-Shvat Purim Pesach [Lag be-Omer] -a problematic festival with problematic songs [Day of Holocaust, Day of Remembrance, Day of Independence] Shavuot

The first stanza of "Succati" is included in a video called "Sukkot, Moses leads the people in the desert "

Rosh Hashanah:

Ha-qaitz avar Be-Tishre natan ha-deqel See a video with Rosh Hashanah especially the third song: lyrics: traditional , tune: Uzi Hitmann

The old childrens song "Shanah Tovah" smells of pioneer Zionism and Socialism, though I could be glad about the third stanza, since it describes the army work of my two sons, one a pilot, on a sailor. The pilot even took up flying as a career in the last 5 years: A good year, brave pilot, riding in the heights of the sky, and much peace, Hebrew sailor, who makes his way in the waters A good year, a good year In searching for a video, I only find parodies, but one at least can teach the tune!

SLAVES WE WERE, NOW WE ARE FREE listen to several performances of this song

LITTLE MOSES IN THE ARK Dumám sháta teivá ktaná Al haieór hazákh, Uvateivá moshé hakatán Iéled iafé varákh. Hass, hagalím hashovavím, Moshé hakatán po shat. Lo yitbá, khaiyó yikhyé yeled ze hakát. see how Micha and Ayelet sang and played it on Pesach 2010

listen to a pretty youtube video

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After the breakfast togetherness of 4 families:
Ronnit's entire family, REgina's entire family, Micha's family without his wife, and Immanuel alone,
Micha drove the German family to Jerusalem to visit the most famous places in the Holy City.

Micha in a church

In Jerusalem - between her parents: Dominika

See Mika's visit and prayer at the Wailing Wall, on Nov. 13, 2010

Again a pretty composition:
Christina and Regina to the left, ~~~ Micha & Ra'ayah in the middle ~~~ Dominika to the right

After they had spent the night with Micha's family,
and followed Micha's advice to visit Masada,
they came to me, to Arad.
I let them have a short glance into the Desert
i.e. my "Wadi of Compassion'" ,
see Full Moon-Full-Fill-ment 8 and Full Moon-Full-Fill-ment 10, in 2007
through which I climb to and fro twice a day,
when I am in Arad and go to the pool,
and then we drove down to my Bedouin family.
[see the entry picture to my ARARAt website]
[and see a few images of the family in the Nebo-let-Go-pages]

I hadn't seen the family since we - Cornelia & her son with Yahia & Samira -
had made that sad trip to "Succah in the Desert", at the end of 2009.
And now, when I pondered, if it would be right for me,
to renew the contact by bringing my German family there,
and if it would be right for the latter,
it so happened, that the couple and the two eldest children stood in my doorway;
Yahia and Samira, Yusuf and Hathra.
It was 2:30 PM and they had finished plucking tomatoes
on the fields of a Jewish settlement in the Occupied Territories, but on Israeli land.
I said to Yahia, that I was afraid, he would marry Hathra off,
since in a few days - on October 9, - Hathra would be 18 years old.
He promised, that this wouldn't happen soon.
The ninth of October was also the date of my sister's, Regina's mother's, birthday.
It was clear now, that we would come and visit them.
Moreover, I had asked Ralf, if by chance he had a superfluous computer,
and he had brought an old and very heavy laptop all the way from Germany!

It's good, that I have that beautiful 2004 photo of me and Hathra on the SongPage, which is dedicated to her ,
for now she is a woman, a deeply religious Muslim woman,
and unlike her mother, who agreed to be photographed, hesitated so much, that Ralf didn't dare to take her or her sister's picture.
But the intimacy and deep bond between me and starchild Hathra, as shown on that picture, was there as always in the past...

with Samira and Tina

Since these are all the photos, Ralf has sent me, I must stop abruptly.
I do hope, that Yahia will keep his promise
and bring Hathra and the laptop to a friend who understands about computers,
will reformat it and put on it Hebrew or even Arabic programs instead of the useless German ones.
and I desire with all my heart,
that the very fact of "having a computer"
will boost Hathra's self-esteem and let her grow towards realizing her dreams,
like the old one - of becoming a moderator on television!

After we came back to my home, I explained how they could find their way in my "hotel",
and I myself went to Tzippi's house, 4 minutes further up my street, and slept in her room.
[Tina to the left, Domi to the right]
[see the composition of wall-pictures there! Learn&Live 3 , October 15, 2010]

The next day, Monday, October 18, 2010 , we drove to the Salt Sea.
In order to guard their family intimacy,
I suggested to wait for them at "my" place, the peninsula ,
until they would return from a hike up the Nakhal David,
but this time they asked me warmly to accompany them.
How often did I climb up to the waterfalls, ever since 1960?
Most memorable - because of the photos I could take! - was my hike with Jonathan

Regina - Rocks - Rivulet

The border between Israel and Palestine above the Salt Sea and Noah's Cave, March 2004

See more pictures of both experiences:
our delight in the sweet waterfalls of Nakhal David and our walking along the Salt Sea
in "Noah's Shore: the Bereaved Mother Sculpture" and "the Border Sculptures"

The sun has long since disappeared, when we women enter the Salt Sea, Regina to the left, I to the right,
the twins [Tina in the blue bikini] in the middle,
first back to back, then face to face

Later Ralf wrote, that sitting at the fire in front of Noah's Cave was their strongest experience in Israel.
For me - the very fact - that the Cave, which I carved out and in which I lived for 150 days - is still there,
and a fire can be lit up ~~ to gather people together ~~ while overlooking the Salt Sea by day or by night,
is very precious!

Then we climbed down to the dust-road - difficult for me, despite the half-moon,
easy for the sportive girls and their parents...
We walked along the silent salty sea and drove back to Arad,
where we parted again: they slept in my castle and I slept in Tzippi's bed.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

See pictures of our common breakfast , while still in Arad, on my veranda

This was to be the last day together,
though I had planned to stay with them till the end, on Thursday night.
But I was glad I grasped in time, that they wanted their family intimacy...
I only asked them to bring me to my friends in Neve-Eitan,
drive north some and enjoy the Kinneret without me,
then fetch me and drive together to their last stop: Safed.

After I parted from Regina, Ralf, Dominika and Christina,
our last activity having been: singing German canons...
in Genine-Gita's and Ronny's B&B castle in the old city.,
[see entry to these 7 pages of "Christian &Jewish, Israeli & German"]
I enjoyed being with Gita in their home at Rosh-Pina,
[scroll down on the page "Birken-Au" and my experience with Genine-Gita there]

It is only today, on November 22, 2010
- that I've completed the sequence of compositions
with both, my own and my German family's photos...