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InteGRATion into
GRATeFULLness
Singing&Sounding keeps me Sound
Dona, Dona ~~~~~ Oifn Feurl ligt a Kaelbl
You don't have to be a calf dragged to slaughter
you can be a bird with wings to fly and be nobody's servant
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yiddish
lyrics: Aaron Zeitlin tune: Shalom Seconda translation into Hebrew Nehama Haendel see article in Wikipedia with the phonetic romanization and two English translations |
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Even now,
after 45 years of having sung this song to myself, tears came, when I sang it to record it for this page I found a youtube performance of the Hebrew version, but it does NOT touch, to say the least.... IN Yiddish audio: Hava Alberstein - In English: Joan Baez and a very moving VIETMANESE VERSION! |
is a Yiddish theater song about a calf being led to slaughter,
reflecting the situation of Jews during the Holocaust.
The song's title is a variant on Adonai, a Jewish name for God. "
| Donna Donna (Dona Dona)
On a wagon bound for market Refrain: Donna donna donna donna, donna donna donna don, donna donna donna donna, donna donna donna don "Stop complaining," said the farmer, "Who told you a calf to be Why don't you have wings to fly with Like the swallow so proud and free?" Refrain Calves are easily bound and slaughtered Never knowing the reason why But whoever treasures freedom Like the swallow has learned to fly Refrain |
Translation
into Hebrew: 
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and a letter about this "phenomenon"
Later on this day, Sept. 8,
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2010 - Mika's and My Heaven-on-Earth
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Heaven-on-Earth
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Rarely
have I admired Mika so much as on this occasion. Instead of whining or craving for attention, she kept thinking and thinking and finally came up with several ideas of how to get at least one of the twins involved with her, or vice versa. She suggested - via mute body gestures - that they cocreate a painting! 
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Did Mika feel, that this picture was too happy?
Or why did she paint - immediately afterwards,
- alone, not in cocreation - the heavy clouds?
I've never seen her paint this theme before...
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 After Mika initiated two other games with one of the twins, she approached the other twin who sat on the veranda, and cuddled in her lap, as she never does with me - I felt a bit jealous.... |
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The togetherness between the cousins, Immanuel and Regina,
and their families was so harmonious,
that even after Immanuel had to leave for a flight within his army reserve-service,
our guests stayed on.
It was after 10 PM, when we arrived in Jerusalem and found the Youth Hostel
, where they had booked.
I walked on to Lior
Oren's place, 15 minutes away, in order to meet my guests the next day
at 10:30 AM.
I woke up at 5:45 and - knowing that despite my intense tiredness - stress
I would not fall asleep again -
I got up after a while, left a note for Lior, and walked to the graveyard
- to find out, if my key still fitted.
See about my still [Oct.31] expanding and deepening experience with that grave
and that grave-yard,
in the morning alone. and after the "Brith" with my family, - in
a sequence for 4 pages in SongGame
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During all the pressured hours and days I always
got help, like concerning the question, how we would reach the house of the
Brith.
As to pictures of the Brith, scroll
down to the composition "BIRTH
and BRIT and BURIAL on Friday, October 15,
2010, in Jerusalem",
which I created already the next day, Shabbat,
when I - in my holy loneliness in Arad - integrated my experiences and healed
some pain.
And see a few more pictures of this day on
the pages dedicated to my close Dead Sea partners (1999) - Tamir &
Hila, Yuval-David & Paz.
And
see the visit in the graveyard with its fascinating diversity of people
from many nations and languages
See also our visit at the Dead Sea on Oct. 18, 2010
This is how I found my guests, who had my entire
home for themselves during this and the previous night, - all four were reading!
I had slept in Tzippi's bed , in
Tzippi's room, in Tzippi's house, - 3 minutes up the street - where now
only her father sleeps at night,
since the Altzheimer sick mother is in care of the institution which does
research on this illness(part of the Tel Hashomer Hospital).
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Before we set out |
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For the time of our long drive to the North of Israel I had put forward a quest:
"Please let me explain to you my perspective of the Arab-Jewish conflict.
You will be asked about it, since most people abroad don't know anything else about Israel.
I, therefore, want you to share, what I understand and what I have tried to apply since 1974."
Since they have no idea about the history of Israel from Biblical times till today,
leave alone any clue to what "the conflict" is about and how it must be "solved",
it took me all those 3 1/2 hours - not counting the times, when I had to navigate,
to put forward what I desired to make known- at least to them, my German family.
They let me off at Neve-Eitan, the village of my and Tamir's friends, Paz and Yuval-David,
where I had come to, with Tomer, exactly on the day of Ashir-La-El's birth on Sept. 26, 2008,
and where I had NOT found them - coming from my submersion in the "Yardenit" - on my 71th birthday.
While I had a vital conversation with Paz, now also the mother of a boy, in the synagogue
and only a short (a bit sad) encounter with Yuval-David in the greenhouse of his school,
Regina's family enjoyed bathing in the Kineret, at the beach which I remember with pain
[addition on Oct. 31, 2010: the weekend at Shoham, with Tomer, may have healed this now...}
At 5:15 PM they came back to fetch me to Safed, and we had one last hour together.
In the morning I had put forward 2 smaller quests, completing the story about Jacob ,
and singing some of the canons, which I & my sister Ursel, Regina's mother, had sung.
This singing was a beautiful closure of our togetherness after 27 years of separation...
When Gita, my friend, the landlady of this "Bed&Breakfast" in Safed, came to fetch me,
we parted - on the steps of one of the town's narrow streets - with warm, genuine hugs!
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October 21, 2010
Again at Shoham, a few hours before they had to go to the airport!
Immanuel had - already beforehand - invited Ralf to cook with him.
Mika, this time, pulls both girls with her to co-create a painting:
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See the photos taken by my German family
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Continuation of Mika's
"Heaven-on-Earth" in October 2010 - in
SongGame July 3, 2007 |