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InteGRATion into
GRATeFULLness
Singing&Sounding keeps me Sound
"Those who sow in tears, will reap in jubilation"
2007_03_04
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lyrics:
Psalm 126 in Hebrew and French and re-adapted to the original by Rachel Rosenzweig 1976 On my mother's funeral in the Templer cemetery in Jerusalem I sang this with my sister from Germany and my son's guitar |
tunes: This psalm is traditionally sung on the Eve of Shabbat, The tune I prefer, I learnt at the Taizé Community, in 1976. I adapted it to the original Hebrew words of Psalm 126. 4 stanzas and sowing and reaping as the chorus. See about Taize now, 2011, in "Nourishment from Others" |
See
the song in an additional context on Sept. 23, 2008
See the sculpture
with the drawing to this song of 9 year old Immanuel, Shavuoth 1972
Traditional Version [recorded on
July 22, 2010]
1 A Song of
Ascents.
"Those who sow with tears"2002_09_07 |
Version of the Taizé Community
in 1976 This song was a woundrous gift ,
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The
original text is sung to a traditional tune (the letters YHWH are pronounced as "Adonai"=Lord) The text , re-adapted to the original Hebrew from the French song I learnt in Taizé in 1976, exposes the phrase: "Those who sow in tears, will reap in jubilation" as a refrain (the lettersYHWH I pronounce as "Ha-Shem" = the Name) |
2010
2010_03_13
- Mika's Heaven on Earth Since August 1, 2009, I employ song-page after song-page for documenting and exploring the evolution of Mika my youngest grandchild, whose assignment seems to be: to demonstrate to humankind by her own living and doing, how to playfully create from moment to moment "zest-fully and full-filled" [see previous composition] |
On this Shabbat, March 13, 2010
- as during all the 3-4 days of my presence at Shoham this time -
Mika doesn't want to go out.
The "insect-experience" on
Shabbat Febr 13 may still deter her!
But we enjoy a beautiful hour in the small garden around the flat.
When I discovered one last little orange on the shrub,
Mika tried to reach it while standing on her red horse.
That's how I discovered, that a big screw was missing in the toy,
and that not only standing , but riding on it would be dangerous.
"You must tell Abba to either repair it or discard
it", I warned her.
She said: "Let's write a letter to him, there on
the head with gold!"
While we sat there, the little orange fell from the top right into my lap |
The last thing I do, before preparing for our guests,
is to photograph our "tent"
The
two items on the floor of "the tent", have to do with the near Pesach feast, The flat box was prepared for baby Moses, which- alas!- had got lost from our drawer, and which Imma was urged! to buy anew!! See next time, how Efrat got a new tiny doll In kindergarden, where the story of Pesach is now being told extensively Mika glued the "Cup of Elijah, the prophet" on a black cardboard. Since I didn't find this work creative, I threw it into the bin under the computer-desk. Mika discovered it there, angrily. I advised her, to at least draw something on the empty backside. Within half a minute she created this: "a heart" [with the usual "ponpon" hanging from it] "with fireworks around it" |
[When
I came the next time, on March 11, Mika no longer wanted to see this drawing, and searched for a spot, to which she could glue the original picture. By chance, the image appears behind her tent, which now had come to new honor in this flat] |
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. [Rilke, see my tune to it] |
Continuation of Mika's
"Heaven-on-Earth" , in March 2010, on the Song
page of March 5 , 2007 |