Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies

TEL AVIV

תל אביב

4th International Assembly

“Tarot Culture” in Israel

Tarot: history, philosophy, language, psyche, mind

Thursday, November 16th, 2017

Neve Schechter

Aharon Chelouche, 42 Third Street, angolo di Eilat, 57, di Neve Tzedek, TEL AVIV

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אהרון שלוש,רחוב שלוש 42, פינת אילת 57, נווה צדק, תל אביב

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Tarot as a phylosophical system and an universal instrument of knowledge. History, phylosophy, psychology, thinking, interaction with the universe; various schools of Tarot: italian, russian; Tarot and Kabbalah, the corrispondence of 22 Arcana Tarot to the letters of the hebrew alphabet; The art of divination, meditation, psycotherapy, modeling of the future.

PROGRAM

h 10.00-10.20: “Welcome”, Elena Anopova, “Avvalon” Publishing house, Ilan Levi, “Prague” Publishing house, Mario Pignatello, “Lo Scarabeo” Publishing house

h 10.20 -11.00: Zeev Ben-Arye, Israel, teacher and author, researcher of religion: “History of the Tarot”

h 11.00-11.40: Larisa Davydova, Israel-Russia, 20 years of practice and conducts Tarot: “Talking with Rider-Waite Tarot. How the Tarot speaks to our soul. The symbolism of the Tarot of Waite”

• h 11.40-12.30: Giovanni Pelosini, Italy, world-class writer, biology professor, researcher and teacher of the Tarot, correspondent of the International Tarot Museum: “Destiny, luck, chance, Karma: is destiny predetermined, can we change it?“

h 12.40-13.00: Break

h 13.00-13.40: Natalija Dejur, Russia-Russia, Tarot therapy and couching: “Tarot-prediction of the future or its modeling?”

h 13.40-14.20: Maya Rabinovich, Israel: “Aleister Crowley’s Tarot. Myths and reality”

h 14.20-15.00: Elsa Khapatnyukovskaya, Russia: “Tarot of Manara. Business and sex”

h 15.00-15.40: Hava, psychotherapy, teacher of Tarot, Israel: “Tarot of Waite is the opening of the soul. Use in psychotherapy”

h 15.40-16.00: Presentation of teachers who will be in seminars after lunch

h 16.00-17.00: Lunch

h 17.30-19.30: Seminars

1. Polina Sagarda, Letters of the Hebrew alphabet and 22 Arcana Tarot

2. Anasita Carmelitski, Magic in the Tarot

3. Masha Mashkov, Tarot of Manara and Tarot Decameron, the relationship in a partnership

4. Natalija Dejur, The game “Tree of Life” with Italians and Tarologues

Damanur – all day in a separate room

h 19.30-20.00 closing of the Assembly, competitions

Friday, November 17th

Seminars from 9.00 to 14.30

• Giovanni Pelosini, Tarot, Mirror of Infinity
• Elsa Khapatnyukovskaya, Tarot Manara. Partnership. Business and sex
• Maya Rabinovich, Damanur

It seems that in 1855 the President of the United States asked to purchase and colonize a large extension of Indian territory in the Northwest. It also seems that Chief Seattle (~ 1778-1866) of the Suquamish tribe replied to him with a letter: there are several different versions of it, probably not authentic, but rich in meaning. Anyway it is a great example of Love for Life.

If he could still do it, Chief Seattle today would write the same passionate words to the current President of the United States of America.

“The President in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land. But how can you buy or sell the sky? The land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you sell them? Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every humming insect. All are holy in the memory and experience of my people.

We know the sap which courses through the trees as we know the blood that courses through our veins. We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters. The bear, the deer, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadow, the body heat of a pony, and man, all belong to the same family.

The shining water that moves in the streams and rivers is not just water, but the blood of our ancestors. If we sell you our land, you must remember that it is sacred. Each ghostly reflection in the clear waters of the lakes tells of events and memories in the life of my people. The waters murmur in the voice of my father’s father. The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. So you must give to the river the kindness you would give any brother.

If we sell you our land, remember that the air is precious to us, that the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. The wind that gave our grandfather his first breath also receives his last sigh. The wind also gives our children the spirit of life. So if we sell you our land, you must keep it apart and sacred, as a place where man can go to taste the wind that is sweetened by the meadow Flowers.

Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our Mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.

This we know: The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

One thing we know: Our God is your God. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its Creator. Your destiny is a mystery to us. What will happen when the buffalo are all slaughtered? The wild horses tamed? What will happen when the secret corners of the forest are heavy with the scent of many men and the view of the ripe hills is blotted by talking wires? Where will the thicket be? Gone! Where will the eagle be? Gone! And what is it to say goodbye to the swift pony and the hunt? The end of living and the beginning of survival.

When the last red man has vanished with his wilderness and his memory is only the shadow of a cloud moving across the prairie, will these shores and forests still be here? Will there be any of the spirit of my people left?

We love this earth as a newborn loves its mother’s heartbeat. So if we sell you our land, love it as we have loved it. Care for it as we have cared for it. Hold in your mind the memory of the land as it is when you receive it. Preserve the land for all children and love it, as God loves us all.

As we are a part of the land, you too are part of the land. This earth is precious to us. It is also precious to you. One thing we know: There is only one God. No man, be he Red Man or White Man, can be apart. We are all brothers.”

Si’ahl (Chief Seattle)

http://www.ascensionnow.co.uk/chief-seattles-letter-to-the-american-president-1852.html