See below: (9) The Model of a Twin "Rihlah-Ohalah"
for Israel&Ismael 1999

1 5   y e a r s  = 5 4 8 0   days   of g e f u e h l t e - g e f u e l l t e   Z e i t   "inmitten der Ewigkeit", f e l t - f i l l e d   t i m e  "amidst eternity" from the beginning of my 76th till the completion of my 90th year [unless I'll die after all] The feeling chosen from a day is exhibited in max. 7 lines per day since August 28, 2013 Since March 25, 2014, the only documentation of my life is distilled in "Felt Days"!! My role in the manifestation of the Tent-Vision is implied in the biblical tent quote! Since April 10, I sculpt "Felt Day" in Hebrew, prepared for and inserted as ".png". Names in "Felt Days" appear on top in English, so they can be found in "Search"

2014-06_05-Thursday-with Mika-still 5208days my Chamaeleon - my Desert - dismantling Succah song: Elohim shae-ba-shamayim 2014-06-06-Friday-with Mika- still 5207 days song: ani kmehah elaikh 2914-06-07-with Mika+Elah-still 5206 days song with 21 names, actors in my present drama: (1) Tomer, Rotem, Mika - Itamar, Yael, Alon, Arnon, Ayelet, Elah ve-Yonathan (2) Uri, Tzippi, Micha - Efrat-Immanuel, Ronnit, Itai, Yanina - Lior, Tal, Ra'ayah. 2014-06-08-Sunday-still 5205 days song: Mika , at kokhav nolad

More on my next Felt Day in ARARAT>Communication with Deity 2003-06-10

Shepherds with their flocks come unto her [Jerusalem]; they pitch their TENTS against her round about; they feed bare every one what is nigh at hand. Jeremiah 6:3 Auf sie [Jerusalem] zu kommen daher Weidehirten mit ihren Herden, stossen ringsum sie ZELTpfloecke ein, weiden jeder an seiner Seite. Jirmejahu 6:3 If the English translation is correct, the metaphor for what punishment will ruin Jerusalem, is very strong. There are - in this prophecy - other metaphors or plain descriptions of what will happen to "The daughter of Zion" for all its iniquities, but - in my eyes - to imagine the tents of shepherds around a fortified town, whose flocks will eat away everything eatable around, is not so much frightening as it is shameful ! It's also a hint at what was at the beginning of the fortified citizens' incapacity to take care of their self-interest: their being too much SETTLED! [s. Jeremiah's grand prophecy against Moab's being too much settled: Jer. 48:11, put into a tune by me]

And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he [Salomo] sent the people away unto their TENTs, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that the LORD had shown unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel His people. Chronicles II 7:10 ...am dreiundzwanzigsten Tag auf die siebente Mondneuung aber entliess er [Shlomo] das Volk zu ihren ZELTEN, froehlich und guten Herzsinns ueber das Gute, das ER David, Schlomo und seinem Volk Israel tat. 2. Begebenheiten der Tage 7,10 How come that the people still lived in tents at that time [10th century B.C.]? Or is "tents" a metaphoric reminder of the lekh-lekhâ-concept ?

We climb up the Hill of the Angels' Flight from the southern side.
Mika does so for the first time in her life.
Micha remembers the hill well from the time when he helped me, in 1990, [also in]
and so does Arnon, who was hosted in the Succayah with Yael and Rotem in 2003

While the three walk down and around the Succayah, which I myself have sworn to never ever step into again, after Avi Dror did not welcome and not let enter my Bedouin friends at the end of the year 2009. I walk around the top of the Hill of the Angel's flight, discovering these new stone-heaps (rujums"), which open the view to the "Lekh-lekhâ-Mountain" and the hills on both sides of 'my' Ramon Crater.

Finally I myself take a look down on the Succayah - first towards Ya'aqov above, Sarah on the slope, Lea in the wadi,
[Arnon later told me, that "Lea", which he remembers well from having slept there in 2003, was largely expanded]
and then I take in the entire view - which from here still gives the illusion of "desert" - but which is spoiled and ugly,
when we passed by on the other side. Luckily Micha prevented me to take a picture of the devastating garbage there.

[The Three did enter the Abraham-Succah, and did meet Avi, but did not conceal their identity, but simply said: "we want to look around"]
My very last photo of a scene in the Succayah -
Please, let it be the last one for eternity!
[see the scroll to Avi in Dec. 2013]
- points at the Rachel-Succah in the wadi

The four of us in the jeep moved on to four other sceneries
in the neighborhood of what was once Succah in the Desert-
see the photos

Then was made a covering for the TENT, of rams' skins dyed-red, and a covering of tanned-leather skins, above it. Exodus 36:19 (transl. Everett Fox) Man mache eine Huelle fuer das ZELT aus rotgegerbten Widderhaeuten und eine Huelle von Seekuhhaeuten darueber. Namen 36:19 Fox didn't interpret "tekhashim" as yet another animal, like Buber-Rosenzweig, and yet on this day - with my Elah and her fierce "Let animals live" I can't help but feel a dissonance when I read this instruction for the covering for the Tent. And yet, what choice did they have at that time? There was no plastic "net-shade", as I used for my tents and as shall be used by the manifestors of the Tent-Vision. And yet is it by chance, that what opened itself in the next morning-book, was this verse in the last chapter of Isaiah (66:3) ?

Mika was fetched around 12 o'clock , and Elah stayed with me till 19:20.
Without having told her to do so, she called me from the train,
telling me, that she was on her way to Tel-Aviv.
An hour later I was delighted to see this post on her Facebook:
"A weekend in the desert , that's what I needed!"
It's like a prophecy towards the uncountable city-people
who will spend a weekend in the Ohalot/Rihlaat in the future.

And Joab fled unto the Tent of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar. Kings I 2:28 Joab fluechtete in SEIN ZELT er erfasste die Hoerner der Schlachtstatt... 1. Koenige 2,28 I've searched Healing-k.i.s.s. in vain for my comparison between Joab seeking refuge in God's TENT and - after having been killed by King Salomos henchmen - despite this refuge - being buried in his own house in the wilderness (Kings I 2:34)

ENVISIONING - SONGS Abraham's Tent From TENT to TENT I want you to enhance and to not distort, what the Vision of Tents intends to evolve the earth of the desert will stay free and pure and host us humans to find ourselves. Video about The Tent-Vision  Second part

2003

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

2003_02_11; last update: 2003_03_11

not completed

"O mankind! lo! We have created you male and female, and have made you nations and tribes that ye may know one another." Qur'an, 49th Sura, called "The Private Apartments", verse 13   Towards the end of the time I was permitted to live and create in the Desert, I launched one last project: the model of a mobile hosting business, but this time with the expressive goal of bridging the gap of self-esteem between the hostile brothers Israel and Ismael. Tamir and I had discovered a place in Israel above the Wadi Rakhaf, close to its estuary in the Salt Sea, 3 km south of Massada, a desolate old army-base, where nature was destroyed and cried out to be restored. and I myself had discovered a place in Ismael, west of Ujja, north of Jerico, above a creek with spring water, about to dry up and crying out to be saved. When I got the ultimatum to leave the fieldschool of Ein-Gedi with bus and minibus, I hoped, it could be Tamir and two other partners, who would realize the project. I bequeathed bus and minibus to Tamir, and he lives in both up to this day, difficult as it is. But after 2 months of working for the idea, they had to give up. I want to dedicate this page to both Tamir and the Rakhaf-Ujja project. For I am sure, they'll both reemerge in the future....

Tamir's tent - during our time in Metzuqe-Dragot, north of Ein-Gedi, in Palestinian land

Tamir, the artist: the fence of palmfronds above the SaltSea
and the two of us in our shortlived cathedral , a composition of bus, minibus and tent.

Tamir on his own for the first time: Festival "Bereshit", Sept. 1999, in a field.
He erects two of the tents and invites people for learning about both -
Desert Economy and Training Emotions.

What follows in Hebrew, is a budget.
Tamir and his partners wanted to call the first twin mobile hosting business:
"Ohalah Or-va-Tzel", the Light-and-Shade Pyramidion.
They asked me to outline a budget for investment, marketing and ongoing expenses .

Tamir's first station after he had to leave Ein-Gedi: Ne'ot Ha-Kikar, south end of the Dead Sea

When the job there, which had given him legitimation to park there, had ended, Tamir felt, that he had to leave the desert for some time and - for the first time alone - he succeeded in undertaking the difficult task of moving the two vehicles to the north, where he was allowed to park on a cliff above the Mediterranean north of Natanya.   But this idyll soon found an end too, and being evicted, he saw no choice, but moving into a deserted orange orchard and pay rent every month.

This is Tamir's chaos , unless he knows I'm coming and then everything is so beautiful. This is the second winter and it's hard to live like that in the rain, to mention just one of many problems. But Tamir is growing despite much misery.

Update : 2004_05_05:

In June 2003 Tamir couldn't stand the prison of the orchard any longer.
He moved the bus - not the minibus - back to the cliffs.
A month later - while he was visiting his father in hospital in his home-town Dimona -
the bus was tugged away by an unknown authority
- and imprisoned in a compost plant in Kiryat-Bialik near Haifa.
It took him 5 days to find out about that and to get a ranger to let him visit his home.
It was badly looted, the mobile parts of the solar system, the gas bottle, his musical instruments etc. were gone
and the bus a total chaos.
The authority refused to take responsibility, and instead charged a fine of 3000 NIS to liberate the bus.
Since Tamir did not and does not have 3000 NIS,
he understood, that the bus has to stay put for the time being,
and that he was guided to undergo an experience which he had shunned until then:
to live in the big city, Tel-Aviv, in a flat - like "normal" people - and to make the money to pay for it,
and at the same time to work on fulfilling his dream of becoming a singer.

But he is never far away from the Israel/Ismael Desert Dream.
After our unintended visit on May 3, in Ali's "Shick" near Arad
(once a Bedouin tent, now a shack, for receiving visitors)
he said:
"I was again touched to tears, seeing what we, Israel, have done to them and go on doing to them."