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re-edited on August 22, 2013
InteGRATion into
GRATeFULLness
Singing&Sounding keeps me Sound
And Moses struck on the rock
2007_07_12 |
lyrics: Yaacov David Kamzon tune: Yedidia Admon |
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See 3 pages on the Internet with paintings on this theme
And Moses struck on the rock And Mose brought a kid |
From
"Nebo-Let-Go" "D I E !" was Moses told, but why ? Why should he die on Mount Nebo in Jordan, and stop-quit fulfilling his vision and mission? Not at all because of his age or an ailing body! (And not for the dumb reason dumb people invented later! (Deut. 32:51)) 2010_01_25: I apologize! the reason was not dumb at all, as I learnt now: When Moses hit the rock to force it to produce water, he was megalomanic. You should have flown with the water and walked "humbly with your God!" This demand [Micah 6:8], a motto of Kiss-log 2008, is addressed to Moses as to me! |
January 25-February 7, 2010
[re-studied
on August 14, 2011] The many sources in three books of the Torah
(Pentateuch or Five Books of Moses) and in several
psalms |
A totally different reason was sought in Moses' own attitude and behavior.
It sounds like a punishment: Instead of "talking to the rock", as "God" had asked him to do in the version of Numeri 20, Moshe struck the rock - in great anger against the people - yes! he struck twice! This was interpreted as if not only the people, but he himself didn't trust "God", and that, therefore, he was a bad example for the people and actually shamed "God". But as so often in the Bible, underneath the upper layer of "command and punishment" there is hidden a deep truth. And that is what I understand from my own life with the World and with "God": Striking, Smiting, using Force with the goal to make people free and self-empowered will not work. - "and walking humbly with your God", Bible, Micah 6:8 was the motto of my "Communication with Deity", throughout K.i.s.s.-Log 2008, meaning: attuning my pace with the world to the pace of "God" with the World. |
Exodus 17
1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin,... and encamped in Rephidim; and there was no water for the people to drink. 2 Wherefore the people strove with Moses, and said: 'Give us water that we may drink.' And Moses said unto them: 'Why strive ye with me? wherefore do ye try the LORD?' 3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said: 'Wherefore hast thou brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?' 4 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying: 'What shall I do unto this people? they are almost ready to stone me.' 5 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Pass on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thy hand, and go. 6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink.' And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7 And the name of the place was called Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tried the LORD, saying: 'Is the LORD among us, or not?' |
Chagall....
English
Standard Version with Cross References Footnotes: |
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Moses in
Wikipedia: Moses strikes water from the stone, by Francesco Bacchiacca
(1494 – 1557)
Unlike the paintings above here Moses - kneeling as if he was Jesus - is seen
just before he strikes,
as if considering, if he should follow the command: "speak
to the rock" in the Numeri 20 version.
In four passages of Deuteronomy
chapters 1 and 4 and 27 and 32
"Moses" mentions, that he, like most of the slaves, was not allowed
to enter the promised land,
and he blames it on them: because of your rebellion, Israel, God was furious
with me, Moses.
attributed
to Federico Zuccari 1543-1609
What I see here is: little water comes out of the rock. Moses is not really
"there".
The real Moses "talks" to the rocky mountains above the tents.
who
led thee through the great and dreadful wilderness, wherein were serpents, fiery serpents, and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; Deuteronomy 8:15 |
3rd
century, early Christian art, in a catacombe in Rome
Hints in Poetic Contexts: Psalms and Deuteronomy
Nicolas
Poussin, 17th century
Here it seems, as if Moses is talking to the people, pointing with his finger
to the rock,
while someone else (not Aaron, because Aaron was older than Moses) strikes
the rock.
Here, too, only little water is flowing,
It's touching, from what vessels the people drink, see the mother to the right.
Interesting for me is also the mountain, obviously mount Sinai, and the tent
to the right,
both in the form of a tetraheder...
What
can I say - on August 22, 2013 - Nothing
new, nothing else but this: |
2010 - Mika's and My Heaven-on-Earth
Mika "gives treatment" - she says - to our "old" olive-tree on "Crane-Piazza" |
Mika seems to remember Re'i Benjamin, Tamir's and Hilah's baby, from beyond ... |
2010_11_10
Heaven-on-Earth
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Fortunately Mika and Adar had a chance to be among themselves for a little while
November 11, 2010
The "Snail-Chapter"
Who
can guess what this is or was? A big snail-shell, which Mika picked up on our way to kindergarden. It was already broken, when Mika found it, in a way that a pretty ring was shaped , to hold it. We asked the question, if a baby snail hatches from her egg with a house already on her back. And I wondered, why I had no idea. "Ask Abba!" "I'm sure, neither Abba nor Imma know it!" All about snails for kids baby snails just born ~snail eggs hedging[2 videos, not really clear!] When Mika was already close to the gate of the kindergarden, I called her back: "Let me take a photo of you and your snail". At the same time the guard, Abraham, the Ethiopian, called Mika too, he wanted to help her open the locked gate. Confused by two quests from two sides, the snail fell from Mika's hand and broke in an ugly way. Another girl with her mother wanted to pass us by. That girl had 3 fruits from a shrub in her hand, for the "morning circle!" Mika, too, had intended to bring her "snail" to the "morning-circle"! We parted and I went home , angry with myself! Why did I have to ... But later - see what happened! |
The
next day Mika brought home a plastic cup and in it "that snail!" "But Mika, that cannot be that snail- it was broken!" "But it grew again!" We gave it a few drops of water and it seemed to be alright the next morning. Immanuel came back from flight at 7:40, printed out what Efrat had found on the Internet as "Info-sheets", requested by Mika, and managed to bring Mika to kindergarden. Efrat , the most compassionate creature I know except for myself, wanted to set it free. "You can't do that without Mika's consent!" I said. So Efrat went to work and Immanuel came to me after some hours: "What's that supposed to be?" He led me to the piano, and there- unbelievable - the snail, whose existence should not even be, - at least I have no explanation for its appearance, had freed itself, climbed up the cup, overcame the gap between cup and computer-bag (Immanuel's gift for his wife this time) climbed up the bag, overcame the gap between bag and piano-wood and there it stayed put till Mika came home and wondered at it... |
Nichts
ist mir zu klein, und ich lieb es trotzdem und mal' es auf Goldgrund und gross und halte es hoch, und ich weiss nicht wem loest es die Seele los... |
Nothing
is too small for me, and I still love it, and paint it on gold and huge and lift it high up, and I don't know whom will it untie the soul. |
What a contrast:
The Ceremony at the end of a course of Mika's brother, Navy-Soldier
Alon _____
An hour later we all - including Tomer from his boarding school
- sat in the car and drove north,
"Today is eleven-eleven!" said
Efrat , sometime on our way to the Navy harbour in Haifa,
which took us 2 hours through the jammed roads instead of 1:20 as on our way
back.
Mika had a hard time (usually it's
me, who suffers most during such journeys),
and fell asleep only just before we reached our destination.
Mika's shadow and my, the photographer's, shadow
Continuation of Mika's
"Heaven-on-Earth" in November 2010 - in
SongGame July 13, 2007 |