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Overview of and Links to the Pages of My Community: Desert Vision - Succah
Parting
from its realization in the exterior World
D E S E R T V I S I O N
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THE SUCCAH'S NINE STAGES
1.Stage: 1983-88 : Becoming
Prepared
2.Stage: Nov. 1988
- Nov.1990 : Conception and Pregnancy
3.Stage: Nov.
1989 - Pesach 1990 : Birth of the Succayah as a scientific
model of an SPS business
4.Stage: Pesach 1990-February 1994 :
Arrival of Paying Guests and Consolidation of Concepts
5.Stage: Febr. 1994 - Succot 1994
: Expansion of Responsibility and Experiment with optimal
target guests
7.Stage:
Pesach 1996 - August 1998 : Fragile Independence
8.Stage: August
1998- August 2001 : Forced partnership of Four
9. Stage September
2001-July 2002 : Conflict between Partners
Sixth Stage: Succot [October] 1994-Pesach
[April] 1996
The Succah's "Coming-of-Age"
2002_08_15
"Adolescent"
Teams run the Succah
"Parent" Rachel hidden, but available
3 months hard work in Tel-Aviv to create a financial basis.
Severe influenza and its message: "Stop Doing!"
Fight
for a Tree and Flight to Egypt May 1995
Nov. 1995 - following Rabin's murder
my last thrust to bring about the breakthrough of the Vision
[not completed 
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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,
this time about my first visit at Basata, probably in February 1991,
continuation of 5th stage
of the Succah
A visitor or guest had informed me of
"something similar to your Succayah in Egypt".
I, of course, had to explore this rightaway with my own eyes.
Basata, "the first eco-lodge in
Egypt", as it is now advertised
on their own homepage,
has, indeed, many things in common with the
"Succayah" or "Succah in the Desert".
But "Succah in the Desert" is a scientific model of a "Desert
Hosting Economy",
and - first of all - cannot be owned by anyone
[Basata had many problems to acquire its real-estate,
but in the end it even became a pioneer for many future hosting-businesses
along the Red-Sea-Coast of Sinai]
My vision was, that there would be thousands, ten-thousands of Succayahs
first in Israel, then in the Arab desert countries, then in other deserts
on the planet.
[See the vision as explained for instance in "Glossary",
and - an advanced version - in ARARAT-HEART]
Sherif El Ghamrawy, the Egyptian - German-educated
- engineer and his German wife Maria
[see my
excerpts of their story from their website 27 years later]
Guests from abroad and from Israel and - probably
- a Bedouin worker
The toilets are always a presentation of the
quality of a hosting business! See the photovoltaic cells to the left
There was a crucial influence of Basata on my
mobile model of a Desert Hosting Business:
the use of bamboo!
It was Sherif , who donated the first three bamboo poles for the third generation
of pyramidal tents,
which I created in Wadi-at-Taula , some kilometers
further south from Basata, in July-August 1996.
See
the wondrous story about the white water-snake with the purple head,
which I met in the waters of Basata after the "Vision-Quest" in
February 1994
On this day, March 15, 2011, I feel a bit of
pain , when comparing my own process with that of Sherif and Maria:
If I had wanted "an eco-lodge" , or "a special hosting-business",
as everyone defines "Succah-in-the Desert" today,
I could still be in the Succayah!
I could have -could I ?- developed it in a way, that the Government of Israel
would have become finally won over.
Did I want too much, too fast?????????
On the other hand, I am still absolutely sure, that the future does not belong
to those who break the law of:
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"The
land is not to be sold in-harness [=
permanently], for the land is mine; for you are sojourners and resident-settlers with me." [Levicitus 25,23 , translation of Everett Fox, see wholeness of the Bible] See also Desert Peace Process d |
A symbol of walking in the desert:
My son Micha, with a guest and with Bilha, one of our mother-donkeys, with
her newly born child Terach
The moon is wandering, isn't it? The sun is
wandering, isn't it? So what about us, about me?
How are the following two images
connected? I don't know. There simply (?) was no space on any of the relevant
pages
palm-fronds laid out to dry in the direction
of Sarah
palm-fronds laid out to dry in the direction of Rivkah.jpg)
| Now more of the big show of ice and snow, Water in the Wilderness is the strongest
symbol
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Snow and Ice in the Desert 5 Addressing the Hosts |
The view of the Abraham-Succah from the western,
snow-stained, window of the Hagar Cabin
When I came down after the snow-night, I had
great difficulty to open the front-door of Succat Abraham
Even my German volunteer, who must be used to such
sights, is exhilarated when seeing the masses of snow
on the bench, the seats, the table , on the palm-fronds, on the gas-tank,
yes on Moshe Gordon's stained glass window
continuation in 6th Stage>Flight to Egypt a