2023 מאי 133 בית העונה אדריכלות ישראלית 91 | | | Editorial to go feifen or be blown in the wind editorial You don't need to be an Elder of Zion to know that the only way out from a low place is up. My father taught me that every descent is also an ascent in the opposite direction, and he was the one who almost wrote the verse, "Man, go up, there is great strength within you", but at the last moment my mother reminded him that Rabbi Avraham HaCohen Kook preceded him by some fifty years. No matter how one looks at it, from above or below, the State is currently at one of its lowest place ever, and there is apparently no way out, but to rise back to reality. At times like these I reflect on the most beautiful verse in Psalms "…though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me". And the question that beats in the darkness at the heart of the two sides of the "Reform" are: Who am "I", who are "You" and who is “with me”. “You possess the wings of the wind”, insisted Kook, but immediately added "the wings of knightly eagles", emphasizing the tied relationship between material and spiritual powers. And poet Astar Shamir answered him some 80 years later, that "in the lowest place in Tel Aviv one must not turn one's back, because the silence threatens to combust, and one might lose oneself in the battle… the heart lies bare on the table, and I drink-in the surrounding bitterness … drink and the entire room disappears and one has no choice but to descend further and further down” Down from where Astar? From the only place we have? from the sky? After all, there is really no difference between them… Once, we were proud that the lowest place on Earth, the Dead Sea, is here, only thirty-four kilometers from the “highest place on earth”, Jerusalem. But the Dead Sea dried up, the "proud" became the "outcasts", and even the "title" went Feifen when a lower place was discovered in Antarctica. You don't have to be particularly wise to understand that the wings of the wind have no value without the wings of the knights… unless they are connected to one essence… so do not deny them, lest they deny you. While some proclaim that one must not go to battle without a prayer, others insist that we still live by the sword that continues to strike us Right and Left, regardless of race, color or creed. Arthur Neville Chamberlain, who mistakenly thought the Americans cannot be trusted, said that in battles there are no winners, only losers! And Bob Dylan translated, in his wisdom, that to go Feifen is to be blown in the wind. We all know that the secret of our existence lies in the synergy between the physical and the spiritual; without them we might go feifen, or, merely be blown in the wind, depending in which language you fantasize. Architect Dr. Ami Ran Click to listen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNHuLCKbGlo
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