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Overview of and Links to the Pages of My Community: Desert Vision - Rihlah Parting from its realization in the exterior World
D E S E R T |
Carefree oasis, tent not-to roam,
{the habitation in the garden} its stakes for ever-and-ever and its cords not-to be-cut-off Biblical Prophesy Isaiah 33,20 |
V I S I O N
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THE "PYRAMIDION"
hebrew "OHALAH",
arabic "RIHLAH"
or THE FUTURE
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(1)
The Biblical Ohel [tent] and Ohel Mo'ed
[tent
of appointment]
(2) The Invention of the Pyramidal Tent 1992 (4) Tent Compositions: the Ohel-Mo'ed 1992-1996 (3) The R&D of the Pyramidal Tent 1993-2001 (5) Tent Compositions: 'King David's Harem' 1995 (6) The Pyramidion/Rihlah in Sinai 1996 (7) The Four Nation Tent in Eilat and the Vision of a floating Pyramidion 1997-98
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2003_02_10 ; last update: 2008_05_28
When the first tents were ready, Pesach 1992,
I wanted to try them out and slept in one of them for 2 weeks.
Lying on my mattress and looking into the apex,
my heart felt uplifted, as if I was lying in a cathedral.
The same year - around the Day of Independence
in May - The experience was overwhelming. There was also value in this experience for
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King David's Harem next to the Succah
After I had made my first lekh-lekha from the
Succah, in October 1994,
but still lived in my bus around the hill,
I wanted to expand my living space.
I asked the Succah people to give me some rotten first generation tents.
I made an artistic composition of the bus and one repaired, beautified tent.
More and more often I preferred to sleep in the tent and not in my bus.
Then I added two others, but that's to be told on
another page.
Transition: Alpacca Farm
When the time came to do my lekh-lekha altogether,
I had asked the Succah people to bring those 3 tents.
I wanted to pack them on the crowded roof of my crowded bus,
as the last thing to be done,
before I launched that dangerous descent towards the Red Sea.
But they came without the tents and said, they would bring them to whereever
I would stay.
This never happened, and when I asked, Gadi said, he had burnt them.
"But did you at least rescue the precious carpets and curtains inside?"
"Oh no, I didn't even check, if there was anything inside."
I'm still sorry for this loss.
Sinai
The great chance for advancing the R&D of the tent of the future came,
when I sat there - all alone and endangered by rapists - in Wadi a-Taule,
north of Nuweiba, west of the road from Eilat to Sharem-e-Sheikh.
I hope I'll find the time to tell the story to the
photos on the Sinai page.
Red Sea - Eilat
The ultimative
model of the pyramidal tent, was not created until
November 1997.
The composition of four tents, called the Four Nation Tent, lasted for 3 weeks.
Then the authorities ordered me to tear them down,
except for the one, who was closest to my bus, even attached to it.
There we received a multitude of visitors, or let them sit there by themselves.
Another of the tents was erected by Tamir, who started to become a partner.
Salt Sea- Metzuqee Dragot
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Dead Sea: Ein-Gedi Fieldschool
During our time in the fieldschool of Ein-Gedi
the tents had to wait, until one of them found a place
in Tamir's magnificent, shortlived new David Succah,
Dead Sea: my SaltSeaSprings
Exiled into town, I now possessed nothing but one tent
and what is needed, to make a tent livable for ME.
4 months later I had the idea,
that perhaps, living under a 2 dimensional tent would be allowed.
I invented and stitched it, and figured out, how I
could live like that.
Modi'in, my daughter's garden
Then came the final experience, not in the desert,
but in the rains of winter northwest of Jerusalem.
This brought also the final detail to the R&D.
On the other hand I was connected to the grid,
and had TV for the first time in 16 years,
and a second-hand computer, still better
than the 3 solar-powered I had in the bus one after the other.
They broke down even before I had finished paying for them.
Febr.
24, 2014: Itamar - on his 16th birthday - wrote,
that sitting with me in the tent, when he was barely 3 years old.
may be his first memory!
See , how I recalled -
after having inserted Jonathan's Farewell-Letter from the Democratic school
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how I once served as "an angel on Jonathan's
abyss".
[See below - the place of the tent in December 2009!]
Strangely enough, I was still not "done".
A new invention bothered my mind:
A tent without poles, to be hung on a tree ,
easily to be packed in a back-pack.
Two bad photos exist of working on this tent,
made by Ra'ayah, when I invited them to visit me in an eukalyptus forest:
I came up with a tent that weighed 1,5 kg only.
I tried it in 6 cold nights during the month of my
almost deadly adventure in the Pyrenees.
There is no photo of the tent itself, nor of the ordeal I
experienced in it.
But it still exists, neatly packed, next to my nomad equipment in this flat.
For what? Until when?
[2008_05_28 - it at least
has become a symbol for my "Pyrennees-Lesson"!]
More visible is the big double tent, neatly wrapped up by
Tamir,
when he helped me to move house from the garden into the flat.
Though out of use, it seems to be a pole of the 2-dimensional tent,
which now serves as a roof over the veranda of my flat.
Continue to my tent-period on Rakhaf near Arad - 2004
2009
On December 4, 2009, Micha, my son, drove me to Modi'in,
where
I - on the Titorah Hill - met three of my daughter's children,
at first all three together, then Yael separately and Rotem separately.
With Rotem I was sitting on a bench opposite the house of my daughter.
Since I am still not invited into my daughter's house,
(see
My Desire today - November 16, 2009)
and
December.5-6, 2009]
I used the opportunity, when Rotem went to the loo,
to peep across the fence down, down to the place,
where my tent stood from 2000_11_04 - 2001_04_30.
The steps from the upper floor of my daughter's home
were not there at "my time", nor the wooden platform.
The small space, where the tent was spread, is still free. But the shrubs behind it, where I peed, have changed. On the other hand, the bushes along the fence, with the public staircase beyond it are still there. |