(1) Some time afterward, God put Abraham to the test, saying to him, “Abraham.” He answered, “Here I am.” (2) “Take your son, your favored one, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the heights that I will point out to you.” (3) So early next morning, Abraham saddled his ass and took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and he set out for the place of which God had told him. (4) On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place from afar. (5) Then Abraham said to his servants, “You stay here with the ass. The boy and I will go up there; we will worship and we will return to you.” (6) Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on his son Isaac. He himself took the firestone and the knife; and the two walked off together. (7) Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, “Father!” And he answered, “Yes, my son.” And he said, “Here are the firestone and the wood; but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?” (8) And Abraham said, “It is God who will see to the sheep for this burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them walked on together. (9) They arrived at the place of which God had told him. Abraham built an altar there; he laid out the wood; he bound his son Isaac; he laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. (10) And Abraham picked up the knife to slay his son. (11) Then a messenger of ה' called to him from heaven: “Abraham! Abraham!” And he answered, “Here I am.” (12) “Do not raise your hand against the boy, or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your favored one, from Me.” (13) When Abraham looked up, his eye fell upon a ram, caught in the thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering in place of his son. (14) And Abraham named that site Adonai-yireh, whence the present saying, “On the mount of ה' there is vision.” (15) The messenger of ה' called to Abraham a second time from heaven, (16) and said, “By Myself I swear, ה' declares: Because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your favored one, (17) I will bestow My blessing upon you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and the sands on the seashore; and your descendants shall seize the gates of their foes. (18) All the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by your descendants, because you have obeyed My command.”
(1) Now Adam knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gained a person with the help of ה'.”
חולם כמו יוסף
חנן בן ארי 2021
כל אדם מגורש מגן עדן
כל אחד עובר מבול
לכל אחד יש איזה הבל
שהוא מקנא בו עד מוות
בכל אחת מגדל של מרד ובלבול
כל אדם הולך לו מבית אבא
כל אחד כמעט עוקד את בנו
עמוק בפנים יש סדום קטנה
שהוא רק רוצה למחוק כבר
ויש מלאכים שימלטו אותו
וגם אני חולם כמו יוסף
כן גם אותי זרקו לבור
גלגל חוזר בתוך תחפושת
וכמו דוד אני עושה מזה מזמור
עושה מזה מזמור
כל אחת מלכה כמו אסתר
מביסה כמו דבורה כל צבא שרק יבוא
כמו כל אחת גם היא בוכה בסתר
כמו רחל כמו משה על הר נבו
וגם אני חולם כמו יוסף
כן גם אותי זרקו לבור
גלגל חוזר בתוך תחפושת
וכמו דוד אני עושה מזה מזמור
עושה מזה מזמור
כל אדם נברא בצלם
גחל בוער סודות ורמזים
כל אחד הוא חומר טוב לסרט
תפקיד חדש בתוך סיפור עתיק יומין
Dream Like Joseph
Hanan Ben-Ari, 2021
Every person is expelled from the Garden of Eden
Everyone undergoes a flood
Every person has some Abel
About whom he is deathly jealous
In everyone there is a tower of rebellion and confusion
Every person goes to him from his father's house
Everyone nearly binds his son
Deep inside there is a small Sodom
That he just wants to erase already
And there are angels that will rescue him
And I also dream like Joseph
Yes they also threw me into the pit
The cycle repeats itself, in disguise
And like David I make it into a psalm
Make it into a psalm
Everyone is a queen like Esther
Defeated like Deborah; only that any army would come
Like everyone she also cries in private
Like Rachel like Moses on Mount Nevo
And I also dream like Joseph
Yes they also threw me into the pit
The cycle repeats itself, in disguise
And like David I make it into a psalm
Make it into a psalm
Every person is created in the Image (of the Divine)
An ember burning secrets and clues
Everyone is good content for a movie
A new role inside an age-old story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-eM3jecbDU
By Madeline Levine
...Parental involvement has a long and rich history of being studied. Decades of studies, many of them by Diana Baumrind, a clinical and developmental psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, have found that the optimal parent is one who is involved and responsive, who sets high expectations but respects her child’s autonomy...
Their research confirms what I’ve seen in more than 25 years of clinical work, treating children in Marin County, an affluent suburb of San Francisco. The happiest, most successful children have parents who do not do for them what they are capable of doing, or almost capable of doing; and their parents do not do things for them that satisfy their own needs rather than the needs of the child.
The central task of growing up is to develop a sense of self that is autonomous, confident and generally in accord with reality. If you treat your walking toddler as if she can’t walk, you diminish her confidence and distort reality. Ditto nightly “reviews” of homework, repetitive phone calls to “just check if you’re O.K.” and “editing” (read: writing) your child’s college application essay.
Once your child is capable of doing something, congratulate yourself on a job well done and move on. Continued, unnecessary intervention makes your child feel bad about himself (if he’s young) or angry at you (if he’s a teenager)...
So how do parents find the courage to discard the malpractice of overparenting? It’s hard to swim upstream, to resist peer pressure. But we must remember that children thrive best in an environment that is reliable, available, consistent and non-interfering.
A loving parent is warm, willing to set limits and unwilling to breach a child’s psychological boundaries by invoking shame or guilt. Parents must acknowledge their own anxiety. Your job is to know your child well enough to make a good call about whether he can manage a particular situation. Will you stay up worrying? Probably, but the child’s job is to grow, yours is to control your anxiety so it doesn’t get in the way of his reasonable moves toward autonomy.
Parents also have to be clear about their own values. Children watch us closely. If you want your children to be able to stand up for their values, you have to do the same. If you believe that a summer spent reading, taking creek walks and playing is better than a specialized camp, then stick to your guns. Parents also have to make sure their own lives are fulfilling. There is no parent more vulnerable to the excesses of overparenting than an unhappy parent. One of the most important things we do for our children is to present them with a version of adult life that is appealing and worth striving for.
Madeline Levine is a clinician, consultant and the author, most recently, of “Teach Your Children Well: Parenting for Authentic Success.”