The Purpose  of   HEALING - K.I.S.S.

- as stated 12 years ago - was and is

  to help me and my potential P E E R s 

"to HEAL ourselves into WHOLEness,

and - by extension - all of CREATion!"
Intro to Healing-K.i.s.s. 2001-2013
and Overview of its main libraries


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I focus my experiencing and awareness on being
"a   pioneer of  Evolution  in  learning  to  feel":
I let my Body vibrate and my Heart 'womb'

pain, shame, fear, boredom, powerlessness,
so feelings can >heal >guide>fulfill
>evolve,
and ~~~ offer ~~~"goldmines"~~~ to us all!!
"I want you to feel everything, every little thing!"

 


Overview of and Links to the Pages of My Community: Desert Vision - Succah Parting from its realization in the exterior World

A SUCCAH GLOSSARY
2002_09_11 ; last update: 2003_03_15

On Febr. 22, 2010 I was sent a link to the site of Itai Harari,
who suggests 3 day hikes into the Negev-Desert
for small groups from 2 to 10 participants only.
He calls his site "SILENCE"...
I feel, that Itai's approach to the Desert is very much like mine.
and I hope, he'll open the SPS, the Space, Purity and Silence, to many people.


"lekh-lekhâ"
"go-to-yourself"
.

[God to Abraham in Gn 12,1.3:
'Go-to-yourself', for only then
"will be blessed in you
all the families of the earth"


Topography of Succah in the Desert.
The small wadi I found to be the right site for Succah in the Desert
runs into another wadi, which comes from the edge of the Ramon-Crater
runs along the last part of the dust-road of 2,5 km which I mention so often,
and which connects the small road Mitzpe-Ramon - Observatory with the Succah,
passes the Succah and soon after joins the grand Zin-Wadi, mentioned in the Bible.
I found it symbolic, that this grand wadi, which gave the biblical "Desert Zin" its name,
starts 5 km to the west as a ditch as inconspicuous as millions of others.
but after a journey east, north and again east evolves to full splendour near Sde-Boqer,
before crushing down into the Syrian-African Rift.
The hill, which is dominating the Succah wadi is called on the map "884", which is its height above sea-level.
I call it the Hill of the Angels' Flight.
But what is really dominating the area of the Succah and of its adjacent town, Mitzpe-Ramon
is the Ramon-Crater.

The view from the point on the ridge, which is the closest to the Succah and most frequented by its guests and visitors,
It was towards sunset in July 2002, when I took this picture.

 


Sophie, a guest from Holland, in November 1998,
stayed in "Yitzkhaq" for several weeks in solitude and silence.
this succah is the closest to the "Hill of the Angels' Flight",
as I called the hill which on maps is indicated as: 884 (meters)
When I climbed it in deep depression in Dec. 1989 , I "heard":
'Angels fly, because they take themselves so lightly.'
Angels- having no Will/Emotions according to God's info - can afford this!
Still, I needed some angelic lightness,
in order to survive the creating woes.

Sophie, as Avi told me, opened her succah early at dawn,
and this is, what she saw - and photographed.
It was a night without moon!
The photo was checked by professionals!
During my recent stay - the first time as a guest - in "Sarah",
I laid the framed picture in the shade where it was brightest.
Still, I didn't succeed in suppressing the flash, when I photographed it.

The effect is, that the flashspot on the above photo is  o n  the angel,
while on the photo below --- the flashspot comes in like a spaceship

Twelve
structures
strewn
in the
desert
calm

7 succahs
and
5 cabins

Avraham

Sarah

Yitzkhaq
[Isaac]

Rivqah
[Rebecca]

Ya'acov

Lea

Rachel



Hagar
[Sarah's
slave,
Ismael's
mother]

Yishmael
[Abraham's
firstborn]

Esav
[Isaac's
firstborn]

Kturah
[Abraham's
concubine
after Sarah's
death]

Eliezer
[Abraham's
slave/friend]


The "succah" in Jewish tradition
is not only a symbol of Wo/Man as a guest in the desert,
but also of Wo/Man's creativity and creation,
as I was taught by another inventive pioneer in the desert,
a rabbi, who founded a new kind of a religious high-school at Mitzpe-Ramon,
He said:
"The first thing a Jew does, when he comes home from Yom-Kippur
(the Day of Atonement, 24 hours of fasting and praying)
which is a day beyond Time,
is that he hammers the first nails for his family's succah."

(The Festival of Succot takes place 4 days later.)

What also needs to be explained here,
are the reasons for the names of the two dominating hills:
"The Hill of the Angels' Flight" and "Mount Lekh-Lekhâ"

not completed

 


This brochure of 1994 - in a Hebrew, English and French edition - was made by my son Immanuel Rosenzweig, as the printed brochures before and after.
Credit for the idea of adopting the forked line of St. Exupery"s Little Prince as part of the Succah's logo - belongs to Ruth Rosenzweig, Tomer's mother.


The following flyer was prepared for the Israel Tourism Exhibition in Tel-Aviv, May 1993,
where we erected one of our pyramidal tents on a balcony of the Opera House, viewing the sea.

After my "Lekh-Lekha" from the Succah, April 1996,
my successors Gadi & Efrat Lybrok, professional photographers and owners of a photo studio,
advertised the Succah on original photos:


As to my careful wording of whatever I said about the Succah or the vision,
parts were adopted and other parts were diluted.
Thus the deeply meaningful triad of the Economic Treasure of the Desert: Space, Purity and Silence,
became " Silence, Space and Privacy, mountain air, personal hospitality, excellent vegetarian food."

 

 

Not completed!

 

"Succah Vision" or "SPS Desert Economy"
(See the Hebrew original of "the Memorandum", graphically paralleled by my translation on 2002_08_09 ,
This is the same translation, but better visible, re-edited on 2009_07_20)

Supplement to the official document of
"the LTD Company for the Benefit of the Public"
established on16.2.94 and registered via Lawyer David Sandowski, Jerusalem

DESERT RESOURCES COMPANY. LTD
For utilizing the Comparative Advantage of the Desert:

SPACE, PURITY, SILENCE (SPS)
[a 'market demand' of those
who need to recover sometimes
from the Crowdedness, Pollution and Noise in the City]

The basic socio-economic infrastructure in the Desert:

"Succayah" a business for family-like hospitality in the desert
"Midbaron" a hamlet that renders services to the succayahs
"Midbaryah" a desert municipality: 12 succayahs and a midbaron

The Succah Vision, or "An Economic Approach to the SPS of the Desert",
uses the term "Succah" as a symbol
for the stay of Wo/Man "in unsown land" [Jeremia 2,2]
[listen to the expanded song, now in Song-Game 2007]
as well as for the creativity of Wo/Man and her/his creation.

The first model of a "Succayah"
which has been functioning now for four years,
is composed of seven Succahs for one to 12 guests
(+ seven mobile succahs=pyramidal tents, if necessary)
+ three cabins for hosts
+ a cabin for an artist
(who would, e.g. create ceramics and invite guests to take part in a creation common to adam and adamah)
[The fifth cabin, "Eliezer" was not yet built, and the "Ishma'el" became crucial for the "Aetgar be-Midbar" - but burnt in 2009 ? and was not rebuilt]
All the structures are equipped with electicity from the sun.
The water (shower/kitchen) is brought by the hosts by jeep,
as long as the Nabatean technology of gathering rain water has not yet been renewed.

"A Succayah" is built on   t w o   p r i n c i p l e s
which allow Wo/Man to live in the desert without imposing her/himself
and without destroying the very treasure of the desert, its resource of SPS.

1. "Dispersion":
the limited number of Succahs and of guests
promises a balance between Man and Nature (or: Adam and Adamah)
and meaningful communication between Adam and Adam.

2) "Temporariness" of structures, services and ownership:
a) the temporariness of the structures -
allows the Succayah to move to another place
in case the present location is needed for another purpose
or in case the city comes too close which will damage the SPS

c) the Temporariness of the hosts' services
allows them to make a break or to leave,
in case they become tired of welcoming guests into their heart day after day

c) The temporariness of the ownership
prevents the temptation to expand
and to impose unnecessary civilization and thus destroy the SPS
("the investion" of the entrepreneur is a temporary loan)

[2002_08_ 10: I do not remember, what I meant with this sentence. Loan from whom?
As I see it today - and this is very relevant now for Gadi&Efrat -
any investion should be covered by the current income.
If not - the "foster-parent" has to get his/her reward from the satisfaction of "fostering" the Succayah.
This is - I admit - difficult in the present time-period of capitalism.
It is one of several reasons, why today I would prefer the mobile model of a hosting business,
which I developed following my experience in Sinai, and at the Red and Dead Sea [1996-99]

This belongs to the category "Small tourist Enterprises"
It functions as an   i n d e p e n d e n t   business
provided that it is integrated in an overall socio-economic lay-out ,
which preserves the SPS of the desert:

In the center of about 12 succayahs,
each one unique according to the character of its founders and its target guests,
will be established a "Midbaron", a permanent desert hamlet,
which will serve the succayahs and their people
(including local agriculture and services from teachers/healers
in the realm of "Holistic Health of Body-Spirit-Soul"
and from "Human Development" experts).

A Midbaron + about 12 succayahs
will compose a "midbaryah", a kind of municipal autonomic unit.
Many midbaryas with different economic focuses
will create the socio-economic basis in which all other ideas and projects of entrepreneurs
who want to create in the Negew,
will integrate,
provided that they integrate into the very basic economy of the Desert: SPS

 

Goals of "the Company for Desert Resources LTD
(from the paragraphs phrased by the lawyer on the base of my formulations)


(a) for the realization of the comparative advantage of the desert - Space, Purity, Silence (SPS)
- via the establishment and running of desert hosting enterprises
which will give integrated services
which will comprise among other things tourism, recreation, creation, research, learning and healing,
and this on the base of general principles,
which will guarantee the preservation of the treasure of the desert,
which are temporariness (structures, services, location and usage of soil) and yekhidiut (limitedness of size)

(b) for the promotion and usage of research and development of technologies
in the area of building and building materials,
provision of electricity and water,
facilities for sewage and heating,
systems for transport and communication,
which will enable the integration of modern Man in the desert
while preserving the ecology and the SPS which are the basis of Desert Economy

(c) for the sake of creating permanent settlements [midbaronim]
the economy of which will be based on
the production of products and rendering of services for the temporary hosting enterprises.

(d) for the creation of an infrastructure of a socio-economic network
which will integrate temporariness and permanence
and which will not encourage enterprises which are not based on
the principle of preserving the SPS of the Desert,
which is the foundation of desert civilization.

(e) for the sake of establishing contracts and franchises
for the establishment of projects of hosting enterprises
for time periods which will be decided upon,
while choosing the entrepreneuers which establish and run them,
while training and guiding them in the spirit of the SPS Desert Economy,
and while mediating between them and the central and local government , as needed.

The Company was established on 16.2.94
between Rachel Bat-Adam and Gadi and Efrat Lybrook,' Studio Borokhov (photography and gallery).
IN the directory - which has the ultimate authority - are
Avi Dagan (Company "Eshed-Engineers" and "Eshed-Robotek" in Or- Yehuda)
Prof. Max Herzberg, Biotechnology (company "Organics", in Yavne)
Sephi Qiryati, architect and owner of companies, lives in Ein Hod
Shmuel Rifman, Head of the regional council of Ramat-Negev, lives in Kibbutz Revivim
Yigal Tzakhor, Head of the ideological-political department of the TAQAM, a syndicate of Kibbutz movements, lives in Kibbutz Revivim
Dov Yanai (Institute "Adam" for diagnozing and consulting in human resources, Tel-Aviv)

Michal Dror, artist and organizational soziologist, who was a hostess in the succayah for half a year

Avishai Crel, photographer and responsible for marketing at Studio Borokhov, Shenkin St Tel-aviv
Also Rachel Bat-Adam will be represented in the council, but not as chairperson.
Address in Tel-Aviv: Studio Borochov, Shenkin St 26, phone 03_200904

   

 

 

March 15, 2011,
Since I never came around to complete this page, I shall use the free space on it
for inserting more of the old negatives which I let scan recently.

continuation of fourth stage of Succah

 

The still "primitive" Succayah in its first year


Look, what kind of "table" I placed outside the still veranda-less Abraham Succah!
The gift of low tables, especially constructed for the Succayah, came only later
from guests, who owned a carpenter-business


The view -in the dry season and in spring - from the Succayah to the North-West - towards the 30km road to the Egyptian border.


The sun rises - as viewed from the top of the Hill of the Angels' Flight [one the horizon to the right: the water-tower of Mitzpe-Ramon]
The sun rises - above "Ya'acov" to the left and the Hill of the Angels' Flight to the left - as viewed from the Abraham-Succah

 


A surrealistic view from the Hill of the Angels' Flight - of the track , that leads from the Succayah to the road "Mitzpe-Ramon-Observatory"
The photo seems to have been taken during the big snow in January-February 1992, but why then is there no snow on the top of the ridges?