hodayot [thanksgivings] for today
8:04
My Body, my Partner, my God
I give thanks to the fantastic architecture of our mouth,
and all its functions - from breathing, eating, drinking to speaking, laughing.
I give thanks to our gums and how they hold-hug our few remaining teeth,
as well as the artificial bridges and the removable dentures

I give thanks to the endless tolerance of our gums towards my carelessness
and I promise from now on to give loving attention and loving caring to both - the outer and inner healing of the sickly symptoms in our mouth - gums, teeth,
tongue and palate [see "Candida" in April] and our lips [recently "Herpes"]

I'm grate-full for my wondrous life circumstances,
- no "Meteor on Wallstreet" , no "Hurricane Ike", no terror, hunger, Aids!
I'm grate-full for the program "FullyNaked" with its goal to help women to accept themselves (Inbal, the dancer, refused to nakedness,
but returned to dancing, "my greatest happiness!")
I'm grate-full for CERN~~ its 10000 scientists, even from warring nations,
who are composing a puzzle, though each understands only his own piece.

Nourishment from Others- from an e-mail

The New Beginning : Infinite Love Embodied as Heaven on Earth
Archangel Michael through Celia Fenn

.....Beloved Ones, this is a time of Transition.
Be gentle with yourselves as you move into Higher Dimensional Life.
Know that sometimes the Flow may be easy
as you work with the Miracles of Creative Manifestation,
and sometimes it will be a little difficult
as you may briefly drop into old frequency addictions and fear habits.
This will be because many around you will still be in the frequecnies of fear
and they may briefly shift you from your center.
If this happens,
just gently move back into the Higher Frequencies of Love and Peace.
It is so important that you embody this Radiant Light
so that others may experience Higher Frequencies
and learn to align with these energies.
We would say that at this time,
your major work is to hold your Joy and Peace
so that others may experience these energies through you.

Beloved Ones, each one of you is an "energy transmitter"
for the New Earth energies and the New Earth Codes.
You will find that people will be drawn to you
to experience the Higher Frequencies in your voice, your eyes and your touch.
A simple smile or hug can transmit the power of Unconditional Love to another who is lost and seeks.

continuation tomorrow

Finetuning - following the experience with my family's reactions, responses or lack of reactions - on October 7

On this day, Sept. 16,
exactly a month after August 16, the day on which my Sixteen celebrated my 70th birthday,
(it was Arnon who saw the coincidence of the "16"...),
I sculpted a letter, in which I wanted to express my deeply felt gratitude for all their gifts and contributions.
[It's only now - June 2009 - that I discovered the 2 photos which show all my Sixteen together with me!]

I sent it to all those whose e-mail I had,
and asked my daughter Ronnit, as well as her husband Uri, to forward it to their son Jonathan ...
and Immanuel to forward it to his 3 children, Elah, Alon and Tomer....
I attached some 49 images and 3 sound-files
and asked expressively that everyone should acknowledge having received all this.


In hindsight I feel great pain and shame about having sent off this creation.
For it was , indeed, more than a letter,
it was a creation - and an overwhelming one for that matter.
It's alright to create on my website.
Iit stimulates and limits me - both! - when I imagine people receiving it,
But nobody is obliged to read it or react-respond to it.

A letter should be written in a way, that the addressee feels related to personally!
My creation could not - despite my dire attempt - take into account -
each person's capacity or maturity of feeling touched by what I sculpted.
Some of the children and grandchildren cannot be touched by anything I say or do or write.
To them I should just have said :"thank you".
As to the others, I should have written a letter to each one personally,
or I should have phoned, as Hagar did after her wedding.

Of course, - while working on this thank-you-gift - I believed sincerely ,
that the way I received and integrated their gifts and contributions
and used some of them as material for my own creations,
would make them feel glad and even proud.

As if I hadn't learnt anything in my 70 years...
.I am "just too much" for everyone, yes everyone.

I'll now complete the translation of the letter,
so as to trigger myself into breathing and blushing
"How on earth could I burden them with all this symbolism, with all these associations...."
[see Sept. 18, especially the "altar"]

Arad, September 16, 2008

To my Sixteen:
(ordered according to age)
Ra'ayah and Immanuel and Uri

and Ronnit and Micha and Efrat

and Elah and Jonathan and Alon

and Rotem and Tomer and Yael

and Arnon and Itamar and Ayelet

and Mika

Today - exactly a month after the most beautiful birthday celebration in the world -
I feel mature enough to thank you.

Usually I experience experiences 4 times -
by my presence, by my photographing,
by editing the photos
and by creating a composition of the photos .

[The Quartet - in your wonderful presentation -
you made fun of my "photographitis" -
but know, that this is in the genes!
The father of my mother, an unsuccessful painter,
began with photographing
already at the beginning of photography,
at least since the year 1885!

While listening to the song -endlessly - line after line -
on my way to the pool,
I managed to internalize and to know it
(I! who am so bad at learning a new song)

I changed one word:
Instead of "in a stormy monolog": " in a stormy story"!
First because the word 'monolog' is strident to me -
am I not the spiritual daughter of Franz Rosenzweig,
who is called "a thinker of dialog",
second because in this line too,
the SEVEN first syllables should be on ONE tone:
I'll quote the 4 lines constructed like this:

aet ro-shah shel ha-ge-we-ret...
shnat shiv-im po-qa-khat a-yin...
be-sip-pur so-er po-ta-khat...
mish-pa-khah yesh ve-gam da-at...

Immanuel cut out for me also the duet of Arnon and Yael,
and today, on this very day, the inspiration landed on me,
and to the sweet tune a game added itself-
which could be sung - together!

In each of the two parts of the tune there are 22 tones.
To the first part I adapted the 22 letters of the Hebrew Alef Bet

Only later I understood, from where the inspiration came:
I know about 400 songs by heart, about 120 songs of my own,
but to keep them really available in my memory, I must rehearse them!
So it happened that in the morning-pool today
I rehearsed a song in Yiddish, which touches me a lot:

"Oifn Pripetchik"

The song depicts a class of small children in a "Cheder" in the Golah
Cheder 1912 in Meron, Galilee,
in which the teacher tortures them with the Hebrew Aelf-Bet
"Say again and yet again: Kometz alef = O!"
(in the Ashkenazi pronounciation)
The teacher promises a "flag" to the pupil who'll know Hebrew,
but he also infuses them with the purpose of this torture:
"When you'll be big, you'll understand on your own flesh,
how many tears are in those letters and how much weeping.
And when you'll have to drag the Golah, the exile,
you'll be able to draw strength from the letters."

It is important for the health of our life in Israel,
that we know this:
that our ancestors drew strength
from those 22 letters....


The tones of the second part, and this time also its rhythm,
I adapted to the syllables of the names of my ten grandchildren!!

In the beginning I was sorry that there or 23 syllables and not 22,
but I was glad when I saw that 22+23 makes 45,
and 4+5 provides us with 9, the numer of wholeness,
and not the wholeness of "the adamah", the earth,
which is symbolized in the number 7,
but the wholeness towards which we are still growing,
the wholeness of "Heaven on Earth"

alef - bet - gimel - dalet - he
vav - zayen - het - tet - yod - kaf
lamed - mem - nun - samekh - ayin - pe
tsadi - qof - resh - shin - tav
[transcription according to Unicode Table for Hebrew Alef Bet]

ROTEM, TOMER, MIKA,
ITAMAR, YAEL,
ARNON, ALON, ELAH,
AYELET, JONATHAN

And since I already got carried away with playing with the letters,
I discovered something else about the names of my ten grandchildren:

The beginning of the names;
5 different letters
alef-alef-alef-alef-alef, yod, yod, mem, resh, tav
The ending of the names:
6 different letters:
he, he, lamed, mem, nun, nun, nun, resh, resh, tav.

At the end let me quote a passage
which I wrote for myself in English
on August 21:

Open the wonderful video with Ester Ofarim
on the background of images of that time
and another one from the movie "Schindler's List",
also on the background of images:

Efrat's creativity - there are no words to praise it .

And how she drew out the power of creativity from the ten grandchildren-
I don't know how to express my wonder and joy.

And the miracle, that I have such a tribe!
Each of the Sixteen is alive and healthy
and wise and beautiful in body and soul!
What can I say about that?

And all are in Israel, nobody lives abroad,
even the three men, who jump abroad regularly,

Immanuel, Uri, Micha
they had all come, nobody was missing!