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 [If you look for a word on this page, click ctrl/F and put a word in "find"]

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!"

Abraham, the Desert Host
[Genesis 18]
Dedicated to "Roibe", Dan Rubin,
(From "Succah-Diary 2),

see SongGame
2007

"How great is your goodness
which you have concealed
for those who fear you
(=are communicating with you )
You hide them
in the hiddenness of your face,
you conceal them in the succah"

People ask? "What is the idea?" (1994)

Inconspicuous, unobtrusive, unimposing
is this tiny road sign to "Succah in the Desert".

People who hear(d) about "Succah in the Desert",
touch(ed) it as visitors,
experience(d) it as guests,
or even live(d), work(ed) and create(d) there as hosts,

praise it as "a very special hosting business in the desert".

It still makes me feel rueful, when I see,
that even those who should know better, do not grasp,

that "Succah in the Desert" was conceived as
a scientific model and live laboratory
for the realization of the "Succah-Vision".

The Succah Vision or Desert Economy Vision
intends to build the socio-economic infrastructure
for the Desert in Israel and in the world.

A third of the planet is Desert,
60% of Israel and 82% of the Arab countries.
Awareness of this fact now grows
because of 4 developments in the world:

a time to breathe
a time to listen
a time to know - yourself

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LONGING?

Is there a longing in you which you might name "Recreation of Soul"?
A need to balance the city's stimulations with silence - listening?
Many people seek this in a monastry.
In the Middle East there is the DESERT!

MILLION STAR HOTELS

If you are neither a prophet nor a monk nor a hero,
but in need of shadow in summer and warmth in winter,
water and food, light and the closeness of people,
you'll find [-for example-] a million-star-hotel
amidst the stony hills of the Negev Heights.
Next to the "Hill of the Angels' Flight',
7 km west of the small desert town Mitzpe-Ramon,
you will be welcomed in a "SUCCAYAH".

SUCCAYAH

A "Succayah" is composed of seven Succot, small cosy dwellings,
[in this case] about 150 m apart, nestled among rocks.
In the central Succah guests meet, eat and share together.
The six remaining private Succot each welcome one or two guests at a time,
for a total of twelve,
not more (with the exceptions of groups, who might include up to 18 people).

Thus the balance is guarded between Nature and Man
and between Man/Woman alone and Man/Woman together

DESERT HOSPITALITY

With so few humans amidst so vast a desert,
hospitality cannot be but personal, individual, like in a family.
A family, even a temporary one, will function best,
if its members feel a need for - a commitment toward its existence.

"For me the SUCCAH is like a rock, not to be blown away by the wind",
said Eva today (27.5.92),
while asking if she could prolong her stay.
"even back in my country it will be vital for me to know that this rock exists."

It was then, that I suggested to her to join the "Family".

A "Member" of the temporary SUCCAYAH-family pays
according to personal agreement, to be renewed at each new stay.

[The general price (today) is an average of 100 NIS per day
including two meals, the price depending on 7 criteria]

 

MOBILE SUCCOT

We also have 7 "mobile Succot", which can be carried,
or - with all required sleeping and cooking equipment -
transported by our jeep into spaces of complete solitude.
Experienced Succayah members are invited to savour the Desert -
without fight for survival - together or al-one...

 

WHAT IS THERE IN A SUCCAH?

Our guests are always telling us how lovely the Succot are.
Each one is special.
There are mats and carpets, mattresses and blankets,
gas cooker and gas heater,
utensils for cooking and eating,
an earthen jar for water and copper bowls for washing,
and - the symbol of a SUCCAH and a SUCCAYAH:
electricity from the SUN
to light your Succah
and enable you to use a computer,
should you want to write,
and to get a short, hot shower next to the central Succah.
You'll learn to use and to understand our"throne-house",
the special Succayah toilet.

WHAT ELSE?

A jeep for transport and bringing water
until the Nabatean technology of gathering rain-water will be re-invented!

Coming to the SUCCAH is not a flight from civilization
nor a Robinson Crusoe experience
but "Recreation for the Soul".

 

HOW TO GET THERE

Flying to Tel-Aviv. From there 200 km to Mitzpe-Ramon.
Or
Flying to Eilat: From there 160 km to Mitzpe-Ramon.

Driving: at the end of the small town,
you'll find a sign "Succah in the Desert',
next to the sign which guides to the Alpaca-Farm.
Coming by bus:
3-4 hours from Tel-Aviv.
We'll fetch you.
Just call us at the office: usually between 10-12 AM

 

THE BEGINNING

The vision was born in November, 1988
(as a result of 50 years life and strife~~~)

On the Jewish New Year of 5750 (27.9.89),
after ten months of "pregnancy",
I moved to the Desert
and installed my mobile home on the edge of the Ramon Crater,
a unique geological phenomenon.
From there I searched
until I found the site for the first "Succayah"
which is neither a firing-zone nor a nature reserve
nor does it disturb the nearby observatory.
By the beginning of 1990, Daniel Qish, a sculptor from Mitzpe-Ramon,
started to erect the structures of the Succot.
Already at Passover the first guests came,
though only in the months ot come
beauty and comfort were added to the succot.

Since then many people made the SUCCAH their "Home in the Desert",
to which they return time and again,
encountering the power of the DESERT
and --- of themselves,
and enjoying the fruitful togetherness of the ever renewing Succayah-Family.

 

WHAT CAN YOU "DO" IN A SUCCAYAH?

In the central Succah you'll find desert-tea, musical instsruments,
books, painting equipment and ----
the wonderful worlds of other guests.

You can walk in 360 directiosn
and at sunset or in the moonlight
open yourself to experience the power of the Ramon Crater ~~~~

You use your talents to enhance the stay of the other guests
or to perfect the comfort and beauty of the Succayah.

But imagine that you'll not want to "do" anything anymore
but that you'll just "be" - be silent ~~~ listen ~~~~

The SUCCAH is also a situation
which encourages people - to create!
To create physical things (like pottery)
or to create with people.
It is especially suited for teams, braintrusts, steering-committees etc.:
They come to a "Mo'ed",
a "structured time" and"encounter",
where the holistic process of thinking and planning,
while at the same time experiencing body, soul and earth,
is accompanied by an outside person (Rachel Bat-Adam).

 

GLOSSARY

"Succah in the Desert" or in short the SUCCAH
is the name of a vision in the heart
and the name of its manifestation in Israel's Negev.
"Succah in the Desert" is   n o t   a non-profit organization,
but a business (and soon a "Company")
yet not a usual business but something I call a "creon"!
The income of a "creon" covers the expenses
and provides a living for those who create there.
The earnings are in - satisfaction from learning, meeting, creating.

A "Succah" (plural: "Succot") is one of 7 temporary dwellings
which make up a "Succayah" (plural "Succayot").

The "Succah" in the BIBLE
was the temporary shelter in the DESERT
in which the Israelites lived
on their way between the security of their slavery
and the security of their settled life in the land of Israel.
Once a year, during the Festival of Succot in autumn,
we are to eat and sleep in "Succot' for a whole week,
which I, Rachel, understand as a training in letting ot of security
and in gaining the freedom found only in trust.

 

THE SUCCAH-VISION
(Succah=booth, Midbar=Desert)
the rest is integrated in App.Succah Documents- Memorandum of 1994

When guests had left,
I looked at the renewed Sarah succah
and its view to the "Hill of the Angel's Flight",
"Mount Lekh-Lekha"
the Isaac Succah
and the "Spirit-Shit"- David Star toilet.

2002_05_30 ; last update: 2002_07_23

The website of Succah in the Desert
is partly based on my thinking and my terminology,
but is lacking ..... It was NOT created by me.

My desire to share my vision
about economy and civilization in the Desert,
based on Hosting City People,
is intense.
[see now "My Desire Today", November 25-26, 2009]

In 1996 I had completed the beta-site,
i.e. the project of a hosting business,
that would demonstrate,
how such an economy is viable
without its very basis, the Desert, being destroyed.
I , therefore, left Succah in the Desert
physically and without any financial strings attached
to fulfill "my" law,
that nobody can OWN a Desert Hosting Business.

Before leaving I prepared an archive
of texts and images.
All 20 folders burnt to ashes,
when 2 years later the main succah caught fire.

A similar destiny struck the video about the beginnings,
done by a man at Mitzpe-Ramon, the little desert town,
who was desperately in need for money.
He died, and must have taken the video to his grave.

I still don't understand the meaning of this destruction.
And I still want this vision and this story to be known.
There is my memory,
and there are many photos with other people,
especially with Gadi and Efrat Lybrook,
who were my partners from 1994 until I parted,
and who still own a well-known photo studio in Tel-Aviv,
though they now live close to the Succah, at Mitzpe-Ramon.

Some time, after I left the Partnership,
which was supposed to advance the whole vision,
not just be responsible for the one existing model,
called "Succah in the Desert",
Gadi and Efrat joined up with another partner, Avi.
Avi [Abraham] who is past career and raising children,
and actually lives at the Succayah [=succah-Yah]
[the name I invented for a Desert hosting business],
rebuilt the Abraham Succah.
It is more practical and more beautiful now,
except that Avi parks his car next to it,
and that he planted trees and flowers.

This photo I took, when I visited there 6 weeks ago,
as a gift to my grandson Jonathan's 11th birthday.
It shows the Abraham Succah,
Avi, the host,
Shiva, the dog, who joined us in 1995,
to the left - part of the solar panels that create electricity,
and up the hill the Ketura Cabin and the Sarah Succah.
There are seven Succahs according to the four mothers and three fathers of Israel,
and five cabins according to the "secondary" or "serving" figures in that Biblical story.