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[see more in "My Life's Harvest"] Hagar and Ismael |
"There
will be no peace here,
Is this myth of Ismael's expulsion relevant
for Israel, in general,
"If only Yishmael might live in your presence " (Genesis 17:18)
It is amazing, that Hagar's expulsion was a favorite
subject of painters in the past There is little water on the ground in the left picture compared to rich water in the right one, On the other hand in Giorgione's painting there is a storm with rain-clouds and lightening in the sky
Rachel at the Lake of Tiberias walks
towards her vocation in the desert, 1981 ~
Addition
on December 2, 2007
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2013
continuation from
"Felt Day 24 of 15 Felt years"
"Hagar and the Angel" and "Yitzkhaq meets his wife"
at
be'er la-khai ro'ee - The Well of
the Living-One Who-Sees-Me
I explore the three contexts in which this "be'er
la-khai-ro'i" appears,
the only well which is granted a name in the Bible
except for two other well in the same chapter Genesis 26, which I call the Yitzkhaq-chapter
(and except for 'be'er-eilim', a place in Moab, Is.
8,15)
In re-reading these contexts ,
I'm also guided to a mystical answer to my question about "living in the
South".
Hagar's strange well is mentioned again
in the context of Yitzkhaq's encounter with his intended wife, Rivka.
And there is a remark, to which I never paid attention before:
Yitzkhaq was then living in the South (Negev)
which definitely does not want to inform us of a geographical location,
as I've pointed out in my book Franz Rosenzweig's "Arbeitspapiere zur Verdeutschung
der Schrift".
That well is like a bridge between Abraham's expelled son Yishma'el and Abraham's
chosen son Yitzkhaq.
And that's where it took place:
The idyllic encounter between a woman who rode on a camel from far away in the
north,
and an man in Canaan, about whom it will soon be stated explicitly: "he
loved her" [Gn
24, 67]
took place - and lasted - as stated a second time - "in
the South",
Hagar,
Abraham's concubine, "sees"
the Living-One Who-Sees-Me
Now she called the name of YHWH, the one who was speaking to her: You God of Seeing! for she said: Have I actually gone on seeing here after his seeing me? Therefore the well was called: Well of the Living-One Who-Sees-Me. Here, it is between Kadesh and Bered. |
Yitzkhaq is about to meet his
intended wife, Rivka, at the same "place" F.R.: Wenn Geographie und Grammatik
das erlauben, moechte ich doch Yizchak von einem Gang zu der Kultstaette,
bei der er nachher wohnt ((25:11) zurueckkommen lassen; er hat ja allen
Grund zu einer Pilgerfahrt; es ist schliesslich keine Kleinigkeit ,
was ihm zugemutet wird. (1) Dann: Nun
ging Jizchak hinaus, zu sinnen auf dem Feld, um die Neige des Abends.
(sinnen immer noch am besten weil wenigstens
kurz. Ein gutes Wort muesste hier botanisch sein (2),
aber ich weiss keins. Der Brunnen ist mir doch nicht namenhaft genug
genannt. des Lebendigen Michschauenden.
Hagar spricht dann: |
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My note 1:
Ob FR den Tod der Mutter einerseits (vgl. Kap. 23 und hier 24:67)
meint? - Fuer FR wichtig war sicher, dass A note on Sept. 20, 2013
[context]:
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In the South, at
the Well of the Living-One Who-Sees-Me, is Yitzkhaq's place.
Yitzkhaq who - in the symbolic narrative of Israel -
seems to be less "relevant" than his father Abraham and his son
Ya'aqov,
did three significant things:
(1) He dug out many wells with living water,
In the decisive "Yitzkhaq-chapter" , Genesis 26, the word be'er
appears 7 times,
while in the entire Bible it appears only 31 more times.
It looks, as if the name of the town Beer-sheva should have been explained
thus,
but the biblical stories are never as simplistic as "scientists"
want to understand them.
(2) He loves his wife [this is not written even about Ya'aqov, when he met
Rachel],
(3) Yitzkhaq who finds living water in the desert,
is the one,
who shows, how peace can be made over a conflict of water.
And with whom does he make this peace?
With the Philistine King!
The Philistines were the main enemies of ancient Israel.
In their "honor" the Romans at their time chose to call the land
of Israel Palaestina...
Isn't it natural, that Yitzkhaq,
by his very settling near Hagar's well,
acts as a bridge between the evicted mother and son , i.e. his brother,
and the offspring that would come from the love between him and Rivkah?
This story is clear as the living water [=the underground spring], which the shehperds on both sides found in the desert. I always feel exhilarated when I sense myself living, walking, planting on the ground where this story was staged, close to Beer-sheva-up-to-this-day, though on the eastern side of it, near the Salt Sea, yet still in Yitzkhaq's "south". And though one descendent of the mythical Yitzkhaq - the historical Yitzhak Rabin - was murdered by his own people, I believe in the prophecy of the "code Yitzkhaq", Yitzkhaq about whom it is said twice that he settled near La-Khai-ro'i, the well of the annunciation to Hagar, the Egyptian slave, that she would give birth to his, Yitzkhaq's brother Yishma'el. |
Postscriptum on September 24, 2013, 6th day
of Succot.
Though the entire website Healing-K.i.s.s becomes less and less linear,
I never felt so frustrated by not accomplishing a linear creation
as with regard to what I attempted to compose on the 2 pages:
The felt days 21, 22, 23,
24 ~ of the next 15 felt years
and this "Biblical Sculpture" of "Hagar and Yishma'el".
What consoled me was, that
-when drawing a card from my heap of old postcards, as
I use to do every morning -
it was the turn of "Chagall's Self-Portrait
with 7 fingers", 1887.
Watching every detail of this painting, I suddenly understood,
that that's the way of painting not only in Chagall's pictures...
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