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Parting
from its realization in the exterior World
D E S E R T V I S I O N
| 2002_11_03 As far as this document legalized a "company", which, according to my present understanding, was and is not at all "in the favor of the public", I, Christa-Rachel Bat-Adam, hereby abolish, abrogate, annul, invalidate, negate, nullify, rebut, refute, repeal , retract, revoke, withdraw all documents which legalized the so-called "Company for the Realization of Desert Resources", supposedly a "Company in favor of the Public", and the arbitrary, absurd definition of the so-called Company's "captital" as "20000 shares", and the partnership with Gadi and Efrat, which for them obviously meant to have a claim to 50% of these shares. I also abolish, abrogate, annul, invalidate, negate, nullify, rebut, refute, repeal , retract, revoke, withdraw my so-called "Testament", in which "Succah in the Desert" and the so-called "Company in favor of the public" were jokingly "bequeathed" by me to Gadi and Efrat Lybrook. |
THE 1994 SUCCAH MEMORANDUM
2002_08_19 ; last update: 2003_03_02
There were innumerable documents describing the Desert Economy
Vision, most of them perished in the fire of 1998.
This one - the most official one, since delivered to the authorities, when
the company was registered in 1994 -
has been preserved.
I start with the introduction to an
English version prepared by me in January 1994,
and link to a reassessment of what seems to be realistic today.
[See the English translation in big letters
- re-edited on July 20, 2009 - at the end of "A
Succah Glossary"]
Succah=booth;
midbar= desert.
SPS=SPACE, PURITY, SILENCE =
a 'market demand'
of those who need to recover sometimes from the Crowdedness, Polution and
Noisiness of the City]
60%
of Israel, 82% of the Arab countries and one third of the planet are DESERT.
Following the peace-process in the Middle East [after Oslo, September 1993]
the DESERT will soon become a major issue.
The Succah-Vision is about a socio-economic infra-structure in the DESERT,
based on modern technology (solar energy and gathering rain-water)
and on modern DESERT hospitality (small hosting enterprises).
"Succah
Vision" or "SPS Desert Economy" Supplement to the Official Document of
"the LTD Company for the Benefit of the Public" The basic socio-economic infrastructure
in the Desert:
The SUCCAH-VISION
, or the economic approach to the SPS of the Desert, uses the Biblical
"Succah" as a symbol for the stay of Wo/Man "in
unsown land" [Jeremia 2,2] A
SUCCAYAH is based on two principles 2)
The temporariness of dwellings, service and ownership: Such
a small enterprise "SUCCAYAH" will function as a SELF-SUSTAINABLE
BUSINESS provided it is embedded in a comprehensive socio-economic setting, |
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| In the center
of about 12 Succayahs - each one unique according to the talents of
those Once a complete model
of a Midbaryah (Midbaron + 12 Succayahs) will demonstrate *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^ Goals of the
DESERT RESOURCES COMPANY. LTD (a) for the sake of realizing the comparative advantage of the desert - Space, Purity and Silence (from now on: SPS) - via the erection and operation of desert hosting enterprises which will give integrated services that comprise tourism, recreation, creation, research, learning and healing, and this on the basis of general principles, which guarantee the protection of the desert's resources, i.e. temporariness (structures, service, location and usages of land) and dispersion (limitedness of size). (b) for the sake of promoting and applying the R&D of technologies in the realms of building and building materials, provision of electricity and water, sewage and heating, transport and communication, which enable the integration of modern Wo/Man in the desert while protecting the ecology and the SPS which are the very basis of the desert economy. (c) for the sake of creating a permanent colonization, the economy of which will be based on the production of products and rendering of services to the temporary hosting enterprises. (d) for the sake of the creation of an infrastructure for the socio-economic fabric which integrates temporariness and permanence and which will discourage initiatives which will not be based on the preservation of the Desert's SPS which is the basis of desert civilazation; (e) for the sake of establishing contracts
and franchises for the erection of projects of hosting enterprises for
time periods that will be defined, while choosing the enterpreneurs
who will erect and operate them, while training and guiding them in
the spirit or the SPS Desert Economy, and while mediating between them
and the central and local government if needed; |
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Note 1:
The "succah" in Jewish tradition
is not only a symbol of Wo/Man as a guest in the desert,
but also of Wo/Man's creativity and creation,
as I was taught by another inventive pioneer in the desert,
a rabbi, who founded a new kind of a religious high-school at Mitzpe-Ramon,
where the pupils - for example - went out to the edge of the Ramon-Crater
for Kabbalat-Shabbat, the celebration of welcoming the Shabbat.
He said:
"The first thing a Jew does, when he comes home
from Yom-Kippur
(the Day of Atonement, 24 hours of fasting and praying)
which is a day beyond Time,
is that he hammers the first nails for his family's succah."
(The Festival of Succot takes place 4 days later.)
Note 2:
From the present perspective (2002_08_22)
I see clearly,
that the number of dwellings in the Succayah was supposed to be twelve, not
more and not less.
Without being aware of the symbolism, just following practical needs,
later in 1994, I deviced and Renata built the twelfth dwelling.
It is called "Eliezer", who was Abraham's self-determined
slave [Genesis 24].
Also "Ishma'el", which at that time - winter 1993/94 was
"inhabited" by an artist,
who created pottery and invited guests to take part in a creation common to
adam and adamah,
soon became crucial for a much larger purpose:
the "Aetgar ba-Midbar" ["challenge
in the desert"],
a program which - as I envision - will become the model of a desert hosting-enterprise:
an optimal temporary situation
for learning, healing, interacting and creating
for both guests and hosts.
7-12 people will gather for a week to work on a common goal,
be it personal growth or the enterprise in which they participate at home.
In summer 1994 we made the experiment with three aetgars,
all three with young people aged 14-15 or 16-17.
I'll tell elsewhere about this phantastic experience
and depict the even more phantastic prospect.
Note 3:
"The entrepreneur's "investment" is a loan"
This addition makes only sense
in the context of an already viable comprehensive infra-structure of Midbaryahs.
As to the present one and only Succayah,
which was conceived and is perceived by me, Christa-Rachel-Maryam Bat-Adam,
as a scientific model of how to unfold and preserve the Desert's SPS,
there is no "loan" to be returned,
not when I gave an example of another "lekh-lekha"
[Abraham's leaving security, Genesis 12,1],
and not at present,
when Gadi&Efrat on the one hand and Avi Dror on the other hand
must part as partners,
as Ya'acov and Esau after their reunion - parted as brothers [Gn 33,12-19].
As I see it today - and this is very relevant now for Gadi&Efrat -
any current investion should be covered by the current income.
If not - the "Omeen" ["foster-parent"]
has to get his/her reward
from the satisfaction of "fostering" the Succayah.
This is - I admit - difficult in the present time-period of capitalism.
It is one of several reasons,
why today I would prefer the mobile model of a hosting business, the "Ohalah"
which I developed following my experience in Sinai, and at the Red and Dead
Sea [1996-99]
(As to the starting (?) investion for a Succayah,
a great idea evolved out of constant struggling with this problem, in 1995,
but since this is not the time for the erection of any other hosting business,
leave alone the realization of the comprehensive SPS Desert Economy,
it's senseless to even mention it.
As to the first Succayah, the money was invested by
me,
and when, after a year, in November 1990, I ran out of the very last penny,
3 women, my sister and 2 friends in Germany gave me a loan,
not expecting, that I would ever return it.
March 15, 2011
| Now more of the big show of ice and snow, Water in the Wilderness is the strongest
symbol
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Snow and Ice in the Desert 5 Addressing the Hosts |
Snow and Ice in the Desert 7 the 1994 Memorandum: Succah Vision or SPS Desert Economy |
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End of the sequence of "Snow and Ice, Water in the Wilderness"
1993-2013
continuation
of the document:
mo'ed ba-midbar~~~~maerkhav-le-yotzrim
[difficult to translate:
timing-for-meeting in the desert~~~
space for creators]
[the four photos on this page and on
the other page, where I insert the document, were glued to the front and
back cover of the document]
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The "visionary" in Succah in the Desert 1993
See the kind of diary, written after the completion of this document while still in the house of Orenia & Dov Yanai