Noah's Diary- the 33rd Day of Realization

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(Continuation of the report written on my son's laptop in Noah's Cave)
This week started in Succah in the Desert.
I had told my friend, that I would like to show him my creation,
and since it was the week of Chanukka and he was with his children,
(may I insert a Chanukka photo with the Wednesday quartet?)

and I - strangely enough - was "free" of kids onThursday afternoon,
I agreed to digress from my strict schedule - 5 days Dead Sea Cave, 2 days Modi'in flat -
and go with them to the Succah in the Negev Desert.

Again - the most important thing - the interaction with my friend,
with his seventeen year old and his nine and eight year olds,
as well as my talks with Avi in the Succah
cannot be told here.
But the photos taken this time,
14 years after the creation of this model of my Desert Economy Vision,
can be shown.

 

They slept in the Ya'acov Succah, built on three levels of rocks, of which the higher and the lower can be discerned here. It was the first site for a Succah, which I had intuited in January 1990,

I myself was given what I had once intended as a cabin for hosts,
and called it "Eliezer" (Abraham's servant in the Biblical story).
It was constructed by Renata, the carpenter, according to my architectural design.

In the morning I noticed some utensils , which would suit me well in my cave,
a ten liter metal water container, a specific tea-pot, and a brass water-bowl,
once purchased by me on the Bedouin market in Beersheva.

I also aked Avi about the "bottle-hooks", which I deem vital for my curtain.
He will search for them, when he'll buy a portable kerosine lamp for bringing people down my 190 steps at night.

 

I marveled at Avi's construction of the new Ohel Mo'ed, the "Tent of Appointment".
I had waited for this for so long.
I had told Avi,
that the "right" Ohel Mo'ed would be the final signature
on the agreement between him, Gadi/Efrat and me.
Though it will be no longer a tent, but a palm frond structure like the succahs,
it does not lack symbolism.
It is designed as a Star of David, and - in one line with the Rukhara, - it's continuation.

Maybe, it will bore you,
but for me it is such a joy
to now - one hour before the change from 2003 to 2004 - watch Succah in the Desert
through the different angles of the Ohel Mo'ed:

Towards the east and the upper part of the Wadi. To the left: "The Hill of the Angels' Flight".

"Ya'aqov" (Jacob) to the left

The cabins for hosts on the slope: "Keturah" (Abraham's concubine after Sarah's death) and the new "Esau".

View from "Rivqah" (Rebecca) in the forefront


The "Rukhara" in the forefront;
the "Sarah Succah" to the right on the slope,
"Keturah", "Esau" and "Hagar" to the left,
above the shower, which is under construction and not yet covered with palm fronds.

Here the Ohel Mo'ed lies in a straight line behind the Rukhaara, and to the left "Rivkah" has appeared.
Also "Abraham", the Succah for cooking and eating, for welcoming and gathering, is now part of the composition.

From another angle the Ohel Mo'ed seems to hide "Abraham"
and to the left "Nebo" and the parking lot and animal shed are visible.
"Nebo" - as the name says - was meant to be an open space
in which visitors - as opposed to "guests" - could make themselves tea
and see the Succah from a distance,
like Moses - on Mount Nebo - saw the promised land from a distance.
But my successors could not withstand the temptation
to transform the open succah into a closed Geodesian structure for team-workers.

This is the last picture, the Ohel Mo'ed now seen from the east, with "Abraham" seen through it.

One urgent need of Noah's cave is a person, who would replace me on midweek,
and it seems that a guest in the Succah may want to fulfil this role.
We talked not more than 5 minutes, in which this issue came up.
But now, without my phone, she cannot even reach me to fix the details for this week.
How strange to live again in a situation, where there is no communication.
In the Succh up to this day cell phones cannot be heard.
And at my time there, from Nov. 1989 until April 1996
there wasn't even such a thing as a cell-phone...