A DESERT PEACE PROCESS - 2002

"SARAH"

The Change of the "Sarah" Succah as a symbol for the change in the Succah Concept
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At first I closed the sides only by stitching double sheets (netshade&jute) and velcro fastener	In the second year Ilan Sabag, my first ingenious carpenter, made this window

Then Renata made two windows on the Western and one on the Eastern side in addition to the sheet doors, in which - after 4 years of frustration with the velcro - enormous zips were stitched into the second or third generation of double sheets. But they too had to be replaced every two years, which was a hard and time consuming job, done mostly by us, the women, but at Gadi's time mostly by Gadi.	Here the view shines through the lower window. At that time it was impossible to find a really functional shape of a solar lamp. Gadi made up for the storky leg, by inserting it into a piece of marble. The cushions, covers, curtains and ornaments through the years since Sarah's existence reflect the creativity (and availability of time) of the team, in this case of Dorit and Efrat.

I'm one of the last guests in old "Sarah", with view to "Yitzkhaq" [Isaac] , "Rukhara" and "Rivqah" Rebecca]	The second floor for honeymooners

Inside and outside, morning sun and shades, rocks and carpets	A perfect place for meditators

	Part of the standard kitchen in a succah
Climbing on rocks to the second floor	Behind the kettle: the toilet kit for your secret desert spot	Looking at the stars through the open "door" from the bed downstairs

Desert herbs in a dark bottle and an earthen jug cannot hide the ugly zips and the broken window, which were one of Avi's reasons for rebuilding "Sarah" and giving up its (symbolic) triangular shape.	Still the view into the Eastern part of the Succayah wadi, towards "Leah", "Rachel" and "Ishma'el", was beautiful.

When I came for the second time for the sake of this peace process, I found a new Sarah,
not only renewed, like "Yitzkhaq" and "Rivqah" have been renewed, but really new.


I felt pleased and scared at the same time.
More than pleased with the beauty of Sarah,
but shocked, because the triangular form was gone.

In the beginning, when Dani Qish suggested this form as the simpliest to execute, I connected no symbolic value to it. This started to change through many experiences in the years to come. My awareness woke up, when Ram Eisenberg invented the pyramidal tent. This tent is a "tetra"-"eder", i.e. it consists of four triangles, one of them is the earth beneath the structure. Though the succah shape is a quite distorted tetraeder, it still is totally different from the shapes of most houses/huts on this planets.

Then I started to learn about the meaning - some say, the "energetic" value - of the triangle in general and the tetraeder in particular.
It is not yet the time to share these experiences except for the one, that permeates this website as symbol and sound of the fourfold
GOD

While I was grieving over "Sarah", the meaning of this change emerged:
"You have understood and agreed, haven't you,
that the law of the temporariness of the "Succayah Parent" is invalid at present,
Abraham Dror will be - as can be foreseen - the Parent as long as he lives.
It is not by chance, that he transformed Sarah exactly at this time,
between your first and your second peace process visit.
The time for the livability of the threedimensional triangle is not ripe,
not in physical functional structures and not in relationships between lovers.

A beautiful porch above the spot where I had combed my hair opens the view to the Ya'acov Succah, which will be the next to be renewed.

No more velcros and zips and sheets so frustrating for the team-workers and also not exactly convenient for the guests. The price for "Sarah": the triangular shape is gone.