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Song 2011_09_24-Masterchef |
Masterchef
- 59th page: The Finale Immanuel joins his companions, who had been dismissed formerly, while Avi and Elihav have to fight it out in the live show. Avi becomes the Masterchef of Israel |
I,
Christa-Rachel, Immanuel's mother, have been healing, learning and creating through "Healing-K.i.s.s." since 10 years. That it was erased on..... Christmas 2008 was a sign: "no longer create new pages! but add new creations to existing pages! [up to maximum 1300 KB size per page]" The purpose was revealed only N O W: Humankind is p a s s i n g from linear time and separateness to spherical 'time' and ONEness! |
Her nor du schein Meidale
2007_11_28 |
A Yiddish
lovesong October 5, 2011: Yiddish is a mixture of medieval German, Hebrew and Polish or Russian. This fact together with the content of the song and the circumstances, which made me learn and sing it, together with the issue of food make this page the perfect background for the last page of the Masterchef Finale |
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Tell me, pretty
girl, what will you do in such a faraway country? I'll go into every street, I'll shout to wash the laundry, but be together with you, but be together with you. Tell me, fine girl, what will you eat in such a faraway country? I'll eat dry bread, I'll suffer hunger, sorrow, but be together with you, but be together with you. |
I've never anyone heard singing this song.
I learnt it from the
Yiddish song-book Chana Fairstein-Bloch gave me as a gift,
after my
son Immanuel was born.
I
was still in Germany then, and there wasn't even any hope,
that I would ever be "allowed" to go to Israel and live there.
"Allowed" - because I believed that - as a daughter of the murderous
nation - I was not permitted to join - the murdered nation.
Though the problem of what to 'do' and what to 'eat' in the faraway land was
completely different from the problem of this girl,
I could identify with her and sing the song with all the yearning in my young
heart....
RE-Creation-in-slow-motion Masterchef Israel Summer 2011 |
Read from right to left
Finale - September 24, 2011 - Immanuel parts
Immanuel: "First
of all I want to thank this amazing team. |
"And
a gigantic thankyou to my family |
"Only
who was here, knows what we went through really. Amazing, amazing. It gave me material for a whole life, not only with regard to cooking |
His elder son with his grandmother and some tasters who are glad for us |
Michal:
"Immanuel, it's important for me to
tell you~~ |
"For
perhaps you learnt~~~ "to connect to another place~~ |
"You won~~~ |
"You won in this competition~~~ |
"through
the means of FEELINGS~~ Michal is completing what I began with my son when he was 14 |
[I think this sentence made him look at Avi, who had helped him towards this new level] |
"to
put-out a very very high level of accomplishment" |
"I
can say in the name of my colleagues, that it was a delight (oneg) to face you [la'amod mulkha] and to eat the food you prepared." |
Michal: "At the place where the mind and the feeling met, you made amazing food I very much hope, that you take this thing from this competition~~ |
"Though we said "Shalom" to Immanuel, we'll all meet [? I didn't grasp the word] Avi, Elihav and Immanuel, we changed [?] your recipes for Rosh-Hashanah, and you can find them on the new site of "mako", called "okhel tov" (good food) |
[to the audience:]
"You are invited to enter and begin to cook, and most important, you
may have a "chag sameach"
, a joyful and tasty festival"
I, Rachel, am not interested in documenting the competition
between Elihav and Avi, though I emphasize again, that the outcome, be it "by accident" or be it manipulated, is "right" in my eyes: If my desire, that the rules should be changed and not One, but the Three should win, does not agree with what is right for "the Universe", then it is best, that Immanuel should be the third and Avi the first. The only other grievance I have (in addition to the unnecessary slandering of the "Knaafeh"), is the fact, that noboy in the audience even knew, that Immanuel, too, had prepared "the Finale-Dish", and that this had been cooked by the 15 cooks (the chef of them lives in Shoham and is devastated...) not only did they not know, nor did the tasters taste it, but the one hundred dishes were thrown away, at a time, where millions in the world starve to death. I can now - after all my slow-motion work - understand, why it is right for the Abundance Society to give so much attention to food and to cooking, and I'll try to put my understanding in words, in time, but I want to keep up my pain about the "500 ingredients" - made available for the team of fourteen, without me ever hearing a word from anyone about the origin of these raw materials: mostly from suffering animals and from humans who work like slaves. Of course I watched the clip about the cooking of Avi and Elihav once more. I detested their unaware relation to meat - as I did throughout the program, also with concern to my son, but I like the inserts of their musings about themselves and how they opened up to feelings, and how they now feel so much empowered, so much more themselves. |
Elihav: "that's exactly me - layers upon layers upon layers - in this program I learnt how fragile I am..."
Those photographers also deserve my highest appreciation! Who except for me, the slow-mover, will enjoy this dish in the oven? |
Avi,
too, muses about his experience and feeling during the process of his cooking the Finale-dish. For instance: Avi looks at his dish (meat, meat, meat...): "All the richness, the colors, the flavors, that's what I am today |
Before the two dishes of Elihav and Avi - multiplied
by one hundred - are presented to the tasters,
Chaim, the loving Chaim, says:
"Without any doubt this was a season of friendship.
The combattants proved to us,
that also in a competition
it is possible to help,
it's possible to "fargenn"
(I explained this word already somewhere)
it's possible to love each other.
"And therefore, in the spirit of this season, and a moment before Elihav's dishes go out, we asked Avi to tell, who in his opinion should be the Masterchef of Israel." [after a moment's clip about Elihav's audition, and with scenes throughout Avi's words which demonstrate what he says about Elihav:} Avi: "Elihav is a man so talented, he is creative on levels never heard of,.... He is able to put the food on the plate in the prettiest visual manner. Several times one of the judges asked for his recipe, and Chaim once even took out his cellphone to photograph one of Elihav's dishes.... You don't understand what special soul we are talking about here. This is a very good friend I took here from the program. And I very much love him. He deserves, he really deserves to be the Masterchef of Israel, He deserves it!" |
Eyal: "Elihav, what happened that in this last moment such loneliness broke out from this dish?" |
Chaim's judgment: "It's the first time that you really enter the pan, you put boundaries. Usually your food is dispersed all over on the plate, on the table, and now it's as if you said to yourself: "OK, I reached the Finale, let me for a moment be with myself, and that's what you put on the plate." |
Eyal's judgment: "the parts of the dish around the plate are not connected to each other, but then suddenly in the center there is Elihav with all his flavors. Is this the story of your life and of your family? I don't know, if the center of the dish actually creates life...." |
Now - 11 AM - I heard the birds again, farther away, I ran out again, but they were too high up in the sky. Still, I caught another picture, without zoom , without anything I sang: "I, I would like to be a bird, to fly above, above the earth..." And when returning, half blinded by the sun, I ran directly into the arms of Shalom, my neighbor... A time for reconciliation (with someone whose "Cain" is triggered by Immanuel's success...) That is too fantastic a story to tell it "in between". The meaning of Immanuel's birth and existence! In the end he even dug out some self-sown tomato-plants for me, while I ran to fetch the little photo , which I had intended to show him, if, yes i f I could make him listen to me for a moment on Yom-Kippur. I really don't have "to do" anything, to initiate anything, to plan, to organize anything, I must just desire, just intend, just focus - and "peace he'll make" (see my/Yehuda Halevi's song, a mysterious gift from dead Rafael) |
Now it's Avi's turn to help the 15 cooks, with
chef Rubi Portnoi from Shoham,
to make the last preparations for the 100 dishes soon to be presented to the
tasters.
But before that Elihav, too, is asked to tell, why Avi should be the Masterchef
of Israel
Elihav: "When I think of Avi, I first of all think about a giant... And during the program he opens and opens and opens [I can't possibly convey all of Elihav's praises, phrased as usual in the language of a true poet] Something connected us, something as if from the backgrounds, that both of us come from the same families, from there we connected with each other. Everyone can say, that to make the dish of Imma, is no big deal, but what Avi does ..... I adore him, and that's why I think, that he deserves it, to become the next Masterchef of Israel" |
Eyal: "This
is the dish of a man |
Again
the waiters - in a perfect procession- present the 100 dishes, cooked according to Avi's recipe, to the 100 tasters. And again we, the families, didn't get anything, nor did anyone tell us, why we had to wait in vain and stay hungry through all the event till the end.. Since Elihav's dish was taken from them so fast, it's obvious that this time, with Avi's dish, the tasters hurry up to get as much food as possible into their stomachs, empty since 5 hours, before the still full plates are again grabbed from them. [Strange behavior...] |
Ilanit, Avi's wife, rejoices [to her right Alon's profile!] |
While Roshfeld adds his points to those of Michal, already on the board, Immanuel is seen watching from the veranda |
Chaim: "Elihav and Avi, you came a very long way. Now you are giving inspiration to thousands of people, whose true desire in life is to cook. Yet there can be only one Masterchef~~ |
Does Immanuel look a bit down after all? |
"And the Masterchef of Israel is...." (long pause) |
"And the Masterchef of Israel is...." |
Mary, Avi's mother, and Nomi, Elihav's mother (?), with Efrat in the background |
"And the Masterchef of Israel is...." |
Ilan, Gili, Iris, Sima, Jenifer, Yossi, Zohar |
"And the Masterchef of Israel is...." |
"And the Masterchef of Israel is...." |
Ilanit, Avi's wife, and perhaps his sister |
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"And the Masterchef of Israel is...." |
Waiting lyrics: Rita [my translation] tune: Idan Reichel One day, it will happen, without us feeling it, something will change, something will relax in us, something will touch us, and there will be nothing to fear. And this will come like a line carved in the palm of a hand this will come, sure of itself, as if it had always been there and waited, till we would discern it. And this will come, you'll see, the clenched hands will lengthen, and the heart that guards not to be hurt, will beat in a regular rhythm, this will come, like Nature is regular. to be whole with itself. |
And while the silvery confetti rains down on the winner and his team, Rita's Song "One day" is heard again, as in the beginning of the Finale |
"and the heart that guards not to be hurt, will beat in a regular rhythm,~~ |
"and the heart that guards not to be hurt,~~ |
"....the clenched hands will lengthen~~~ |
"thanks to the Creator of the World, thanks that you brought me to this moment. Thanks to all my family, who supported me, thanks to all the world, the people on the street, you don't know what you did to me~~ |
Chaim:
"Do you want to say something? this is the moment, Avi!" Avi with Adir in his arms and his wife next to him: "I want to say~~ |
You CAN [his voice breaks] Do it for the sake of your families Do it |
"And
I want to say something, something that is really really important for me: I feel, that I made an amazing way in this program. And I feel, that this is a mission [or vocation] and I turn to all people, who truly want to take the road (la'alot al derech) and who say, why can he and why can't I, You CAN, yes you CAN - |
"thanks to this amazing Production [subtitle: "main editor: Dorit Gewirzman" This is the chance for me, Rachel, to thank Dorit and her 22 subeditors. The more I looked into your work, while proceeding frame by frame, and cropping what was relevant, I was more and more astounded - what incredible skill and work!! |
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"that
I thank God, that Avi... he deserves it" |
Chaim:
"Elihav, what do you want to say" |
All raw materials are donated to the NGO "Food for Life" |
Rachel: Since - except for fast moving subtitles - ignored by just about everybody - nobody is giving thanks to specific members of the staff, I want to do this, vicariously for participants and audience. I already praised Dorit, the main editor. Yet I had the chance to personally meet two other amazing women: Ruth Samucha, the "mother" of the Fourteen. She came with the team of the documentary "Who are you, Masterchef" to Immanuel's house for Elihav's interview. Who knows about the task of this woman? Or who knows about the woman, who approached me during the Finale: and who had accompanied Immanuel and put challenging questions to him, constantly - in the kitchen - and in the back-room: Neriyah... |
The subtitle under this pictures is; Responsible for the combattants: Ruth Samucha |
(see the different colors and ages of
the people on this picture) |
Chaim: "Elihav, dearest, you got very far, you walked an amazing path and that's the time to say thanks to all the people, ---- you have no idea, what work, day and night all these fantastic people have invested ..... This was an experience for all of us, a human (aenoshi) journey" |
by all- |
And what other signs do I discern? Stepbrothers!
Joel, now 64, who seemed to loose his father to me, when he was 16, because
of the birth of Immanuel, now 48
"When
you offer a vibration, the Universal forces are working in concert with
each other in order to satisfy you. You really are the center of the Universe." Abraham 1997, today's email (October 5, 2011)l Yes, but I must work all my life, day by day, moment by moment for discovering, detecting, finding out, identifying what the Universe wants for all of its aspects. So when Efrat conveyed a spark of fury to me: "It's because you did not 'activate the environment' (Immanuel's expression for "focusing on what you want) and actually she wanted to say: "It's because you did not want him to win, but wanted the Trio to win" she was right: I could not "activate the environment " towards what I did not feel right, even if there, at first , would be pain for her and for Mika, and even for me. |
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