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The Purpose of HEALING - K.i.s.s.
as stated 10 years ago - was and is
to help me and my potential PEERS
to HEAL ourselves into WHOLEness,
and - as holograms - all of Creation!
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As the fruit of becoming whole = accepting all of
myself, I desire:
to live and explore and evolve L O V E
in my personal life
and to play my part in creating the conditions for
Heaven-on-Earth
by radiating grate-full-ness, zest-full-ness and full-fill-ment
on the actors in my individual life-drama and on all
human beings!
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2004~~~Dedicated
to my daughter-in-love Efrat-Rut ~~~2011 |
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MESSIAH Bat-Sheva &
David or The
HIDDEN FEMALE THREAD of REDEMPTION in the BIBLE
2004
Preface
blue links - mainly English
orange links - mainly Hebrew
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"Megilat" Bat-Sheva
David is the very image of Israel's vocation to understand
itself.
If Israel will understand itself - through the image of the
failing-feeling David,
humankind will begin to understand itself.
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2004_06_26
I have three more days to en-JOY the
creation (not completion) of BAT-SHEVA-David.
And while i was pondering, if and how to make space for one last,
the 36th page and link,
i opened TV - for a little break - and whom do i see?
Amidst three other expert women talking about chances for women in
israel?
Dr. Orenia Yannai, the psychologist, my dear friend in earlier times.
in the 3 minutes i was "lucky" to watch before the closure
of the show,
a woman, a professor, pressed for the reform of laws, laws , laws,
but my friend said simply:
"it's important that a woman listen to
herself: who am i? What do i want to do?'
Meaning: what will give me satisfaction and a sense of self-worth
and fulfillment?
My composition "Bat-Sheva and
David" is about redemption,
first of all the redemption of "WiLL" AND "BODY"
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Deity's
and human's "WiLL" expresses as Feelings and Desires.
"Total
Self-acceptance" is the task of every Wo/Man.
Bat-Sheva - the object of David-Messiah's sex-drive -
had no objections to David's abominable anti-solidarity.
Unlike Josef, who resisted a raping woman and succeeded,
but also unlike Tamar, David's daughter, who resisted a raping brother
and failed.
it's not even clear, if Bat-Sheva was "a victim" like Tamar.
She was just a nothing, a "Hevel".
it is this "BAT", this "DAUGHTER", which the mystical
female thread of redemption transforms,
transforms from a sex-object into a self-determined woman,
through TAMAR, not David's daughter, but "Judah's daughter-in-law
TAMAR",
through "EFRAT", the second
wife of that Caleb , in whom there was "another spirit",
the spirit of freedom,
up to "RUT , the non-Jewish widow, who
LOVED her Jewish mother-in-law".
David didn't love anyone, except, maybe, his
friend Jonathan.
But even there i suspect, that his love was rather political interest.
For Bat-Sheva, obviously, love was no issue.
Women in the Bible were interested in
having children, not in love.
Except for the anonymous lover in the Songs
of Songs,
only one woman in the Bible is mentioned as loving a man:
Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David, and proved it, until she failed...
But still - the "Son of David", who founded the "House
of David Messiah"- was Bat-Sheva's son.
Didn't David have dozens and dozens and dozens of sons?
Why Shelomoh = "his peace", Bat-Sheva's son?
Or maybe it was the other way round:
BECAUSE Shelomoh was the child of that liaison built on adultery and
murder,
the myth of a Messiah was invented and started with Bat-Sheva's son.
So I decided now,
to dedicate a page to the complete text of the Bat-Sheva-David narrative
in Hebrew and in English,
and to call it:
the Bat-Sheva Scroll, Megilat-Bat-Sheva,
so as to link it directly to the Megilat-Rut,
Rut - supposedly the great-grand-mother of David...
As to the translation by Everett Fox and the paintings, etchings
and drawings by Schwebel see The Bible
of Feelings
Now
it was at the turning of the year, at the time of kings' going-forth,
that David sent Yo'av and his servants with him, and all israel:
they wrought-ruin to the Children of Ammon and besieged Rabba
(Rabbat-Ammon , today's capital
of Jordan)
while David stayed in Jerusalem.
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Now
it was around the time of sunset
that David arose from his lying-place
and went-for-a-walk upon the roof of the kings' house,
and he saw a woman washing herself, from on the roof,
the woman was exceedingly fair to look at.
David sent and asked after the woman;
they said: isn't this Bat-Sheva, daugher of Eli'am,
wife of Uriyya the Hittite?
David sent messengers, and he had-her-brought,
she came to him and he lay
with her
- now she had just purified-herself from her state of
tum'a -,
then she returned to her house.
The woman became pregnant,
she sent and had-it-told to David, she said; i am pregnant!
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Uriyya:
a it igh-ranking officer in David's army (cf. 2.Sam 23:39).
His name ..."YHWH is my Light."
"her state of tum'a": Bat-Sheva's washing is
connected to the end of her menstrual period, during which
intercourse would have been forbidden (cf. Lev. 18:19)
it means that her pregnancy could not stem from her husband,
who has been at the front.
[As to the term tum'a which is so significant for the
message of the Bible
about "God" in general and about Bat-Sheva-David
in particular:
"Who dwells
with them
in the midst of their pollution
[shokhen>
shekhinah in the midst of tum'atam - ]
see "The
Wholeness of the Hebrew Bible"
and the quote there from Fox' Translation of the Five
Books of Moses".
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So David sent (word) to Yo'av:
send me Uriyya the Hittite.
And Yo'av sent Uriyya to David.
When Uriyya came to him,
David inquired after the well-being of Yo'av,
the well-being of the fighting-people, and the well-being
of the battle,
then David said to Uriyya;
Go-down to your house and wash your feet!
Uriyya went out of the king's house, ...
but Uriyya lay down at the entrance to the king's house, with
all his lord's servants,
he did not go-down to his house.
They told David, saying:
Uriyya has not gone-down to his house.
David said to Uriyya:
isn't it from a (long) journey that you have come?
Why haven't you gone-down to your house?
Uriyya said to David:
The Coffer and israel and Judah are
staying at Succot [sitting in succot, i think!]
my lord Yo'av and
my lord's servants are camping on the surface of the open-field
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and i, i should come into my house
to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife -
as you live, as your
(very) being lives - were i to do this thing...!
David said to
Uriyya:
Stay here today as well; tomorrow i will send you back.
So Uriyya stayed in Jerusalem on that day and the next..
David had him called, and he ate and drank in his presence,
and he made him drunk.
And he went out at sunset to lie down in his lying-place with
his lord's servants;
but to his house
he did not go-down.
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So it was in the morning
that David wrote a letter to Yo'av
and sent it by the hand of Uriyya;
he wrote in the letter, saying:
Put Uriyya right at the front of the battle, the strongest-point,
and turn-back behind him ~~~~~
so that he is struck-down and dies!
So it was, when Yo'av had observed the city,
that he placed Uriyya at the place where he knew that there
were men of valor;
and when the men of the city went out to do-battle with Yo'av,
there fell (some) of the fighting-people, of David's servants,
and there also died Uriyya the Hittite.
Then Yo'av sent and had David told all the details of the
battle,
he charged the messenger, saying;
When you have finished reporting everything about the battle
to the king,
it will be;
if the king's anger starts up and he says to you:
Why did you draw-near the city to do battle?
didn't you know that they would shoot down from on the wall?
Who struck-down Avimelekh son of Yerubboshet-
wasn't it a woman [Judges 9!],
(who) threw down on him a riding millstone from on the wall,
so that he died at Tevetz?
For-what (reason) did you approach the wall?-
Then you are to say:
Also your servant Uriyya the Hittite died.
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The messenger
went off, he came
and told David all that Yo'av had sent him (to say),
the messenger said to David:
indeed, the men were mightier than we.......
so that there died (some) of the king's servants,
and also your servant Uriyya the Hittite died.
David said to the messenger:
say thus to
Yo'av;
Don't let this thing be evil in your eyes,
for like-this and like-that the sword devours!
Strengthen your battle against the city and destroy it!
and (you) strengthen him!
When Uriyya's
wife heard that her husband was dead,
she beat (the breast) for her lord;
but when the mourning-period was past,
David sent and had her brought to his house;
she became his wife,
and she bore him a son.
But the thing that David had done was evil in the eyes of
YHWH,
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and YHWH sent Natan
to David,
he came to him and said to him:
there were two men in a certain town,
one rich and one poor.
The rich-one had flocks and herds, exceedingly many,
while the poor-one had nothing at all except for one little
lamb which he had bought;
he kept-it-alive, and it grew up with him, together with his
children;
from his morsel it would eat, from his cup it would drink,
in his bosom it would lie -
it became to him like a daughter/ bat/
And there came a journey-goer
to the rich man,
but he thought-it-a-pity to take from his flocks for from
his herds,
to make (something ready) for the wayfarer who had come to
him,
so he took the poor man's lamb and made-it-ready for the man
who had come to him.
David's anger flared up against the man exceedingly,
he said to Natan:
As YHWH lives,
indeed,
a son of death is the man who does this!
And for the lamb he shall pay fourfold,
because he did this thing,
and since he had no pity!
Natan
said to David;
You are the man!
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Thus says YHWH,
the God of israel:
i myself anounted you king over israel,
i myself rescued you from the hand of Sha'ul,
i gave you the house of your lord,
and the women of your lord into your bosom,
i gave you the House of Israel and Judah -
and as if (that were) too little, i would have added yet this
and that to you.
Why have you despised the word of YHWH, to do what is evil
in my eyes?
Uriyya the Hittite you have struck-down
by the sword,
his wife you have taken for yourself as a wife -
him you have killed by the sword of the Children of Ammon.
So now-
the sword shall not depart from your house for the ages,
because you despised me
and took the wife of Uriya the Hittite
to be a wife for you!
Thus says YHWH:
Here, i will raise up against your (person)
evil from your house,
i will take-away your women
from before your eyes,
i will give (them) to your fellow
and he will lie with your wives,
under the eyes of this sun.
For you, you dis it in sescret,
but i, i will do this thing in front of all Israel and in
front of the sun.
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David said to Natan:
I have sinned against YHWH!
Natan said to David:
YHWH himself has transferred your sin -
you will not die;
nevertheless, because you have scorned, yes, scorned "YHWH's
enemies" by (doing ) this thing,
the son, himself,
who is born to you: he must die, yes, die.
Natan went
back to his house.
and YHWH smote the child that Uriyya's
wife had borne to David, so that he became ill.
And David besought God on behalf of the boy,
David fasted
a fast;
whenever he came (home) he would spend-the-night lying
upon the ground.
The elders of his house arose about him to raise him up from
the ground,
but he was unwilling and would not take food with them.
Now it was on the seventh day that the
child died.
David's servants were afraid to tell him that the child was
dead..
so how can we say to him; the child is
dead? He might do evil!
when David saw that his servants were whispering (among themselves),
David understood that the child was dead.
David said to his servants;
is the child dead?
They said;
(He is) dead.
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Then David
arose from the ground,
he washed, anounted himself, and changed his clothes,
and he came into the house of YHWH and prostrated himself;
then he came (back) to his house, requested that they put
food before him, and ate.
His servants said to him:...
for the sake
of the living child, you fasted and
wept,
but now that the child is dead,
you arise and eat food!
He said:
As long as the child was still alive, I fasted and wept,
for I said (to myself):
Who knows, perhaps YHWH will be gracious to me, and the child
will live!
but now he is dead - why should
I fast?
can I make him return again?
I may go to him,
but he will
not return to me.
And David comforted Bat-Sheva his wife,
he came to her and lay with her;
She bore a son
and called his name Shelomo/His Peace.
But YHWH loved him,
and he had (a message) sent by the hand of Natan the prophet;
He called his name Yedidya/Beloved of YHWH, by the grace of
YHWH
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 David
comforts Bat-Sheva
AndYo'av
waged-battle againstRabba of the Children of ammon and conquered
the royal city.
And yo'av sent messengers to David,
he said;
i have waged-battle against Rabba,
and i have also conquered the water city.
so now,
gather the rest of the fighting-people and encamp against the
city, and conquer it,
lest i conquer the city myself, so that my name is called over
it!
So David gathered alal the fighting-people, and went to rabba,
he waged-battle against the city and conquered it,
and he took their king's crown from off his head........ |
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i breathe, i move,
i sound ~~~ Heaven to Earth
 
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