Pesach, 2004_04_06-10

On last "Grandma-Wednesday" in Modi'in, Arnon, my grandson asked me::
"Aren't you constantly dreaming, how everything will be on Noah's Shore?"

Which indicates, that he himself keeps dreaming,
ever since we built a model of Noah's Shore in September 2003.

I remember, how towards the last hours of the 2002 Succot Festival
Arnon urged daddy to drive (2 hours!) to grandma's Salt-Sea-Springs!
He watched me swimming
and later announced, that he was "rebuilding the shore" .
The shore had been deteriorating already then, before the huge collapse.
Arnon then made it a point to tell me: "It's me who brought you here!"
Is it by chance, that the river opposite Noah's Shore is called "Arnon"?
It empties the largest amount of water into the Dead Sea from either side.

          

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Freedom, the opposite of victimhood, is the condition for realizing dreams. While working on this page, it came to me, that it is Pesach, which each year brings to awareness that I need to part from the comforts of slavery and learn to cope with the challenges of freedom. On the background of the southern shore of the peninsula a desert-mouse - trapped in my cave and liberated about 800 m further north - demonstrates the terror of freedom

 

Moshe Klein, one of my three "twin-brothers", wrote, when I started to live in my carved-out cave.
"I see, that you may inhabit that cave for the next 7 years."
Which would bring us to the year 2011,
the time of the planet's quantum-leap,
as we intuited on my birthday in Sinai in 1996.

I now know, that it's not me who will realize the Desert-Economy-Peace-Project on Noah's Shore.
MY task is to use the situations, created by the realization of this dream, as an arena for training dreamers.

 

The first one to come to this arena was Yuval-David Zuckermann.
At first he is hardly seen - opposite the "Bereaved Mother Sculpture - on a stormy day.

Yuval-David waits for me in the storm

We are the pioneer dreamers

He doesn't share my dream about "Desert-Economy-Peace".
He likes it, but it isn't HIS dream.
He didn't even know, that he came here - towards the end of January 2004 - to train as a dreamer.
Yuval-David Zuckermann, formerly the director of the hosting department of Ein-Gedi Fieldschool, came for a week:

"for healing my psoriasis and for building a zulla!"

He erected two tents, didn't leave after a week, and didn't do anything for many weeks.

One day he called me:
"It's here, where I shall build my zulla! You may take a photo!"
We were witnesses, Paz, his partner, and I.
But nothing happened for several more weeks.

Then - all of a sudden - he felt ready.
He invented and constructed a zulla
- in a crack in the mud terrace close to the shore -
which may make history.

And he learnt, that part of his vocation is - to train dreamers,
independently from me,
but in the situation of Noah's Shore Desert Economy Peace Project.

It was on the weekend of Lior's and Ran's visit,
when Yuval-David announced that his zulla was ready to be visited.

It wasn't by chance, that these old friends were present.
Ran Lichtner, my angel in Sinai 1996, is - among many other skills - an artist in building with bamboo.
He knows, that I dream about him inventing and constructing the crescent-shaped bamboo succah on Noah's Shore,
which will comprise all the facilities needed for Noah's Shore functioning as a healing space and as a scientific laboratory

And Lior Alon?
It is mysterious, how the "cycle" (ma'agal) which grew without intention,
when I and Tamir were allowed to live in Ein-Gedi Fieldschool in 1999
comes to life again.

Lior, the daughter of the director of the Fieldschool, whom Yuval had won over to give me refuge,
was then eleven years old, the youngest in our "circle" of nine.

This circle included not only Yuval-David and Paz, but also Haggai Lev.

Lev means "heart" and Haggai is the name of a prophet and of a prophetical book in the Bible.

Haggai Lev visited me in my cave on January 23-24, 2004, on his and my eldest son's birthday. He has a job of shepherding goats, in the forests of Nes-Harim, near Bet-Shemesh. He yearns to find his vocation and to realize a dream. Now during Pesach, the celebration of freedom, he has started his first week as a dreamer trainee. May he be a pioneer for many dreamers to train in the arena of Noah's Shore Desert Peace Economy.

Haggai's visionary understanding - right there in Noah's Cave,
when he looked out across the Sea towards Jordan or the Moabite Mountains:
"There will be no peace here,

until we, the Jews, will become the guests of the Desert People,

and let them connect us to the earth (adamah).

Once we shall be dependent on them, they will feel equal

and then they might forgive us the expulsion of Ismael."

This was said after a series of promising as well as threatening encounters with Bedouins during Haggai's training week.

Lass dir alles geschehn, Schoenheit und Schrecken. Man muss nur gehn. Kein Gefuehl ist das fernste. Lass dich von mir nicht trennen. Rainer Maria Rilke, aus "Gott spricht zu jedem ehe er in macht"

Let everything happen to you, beauty and horror. One must just go. No feeling is the farest. Do not let yourself be separated from me. Rainer Maria Rilke, from "God talks to each one before he makes him"