InteGRATion into GRATeFULLness
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Night after night the wind becomes stronger

2007_11_30 updated on November 12, 2008

lyrics: Natan Altermann + Christa-Rachel Bat-Adam

tune: Mordechai Ze'ira

Night, night, the wind gets stronger, night, night, the tree-top rustles, night, night, a star sings night, night, put out the light night, night, put out the light Night, night, I embrace, night, night, I kiss, morning, night - you my peer, night, morning- my spirit, body, feeling night, morning- my spirit, body, feeling Night, night - it's you I desire, morning, morning- from you I beg, morning, morning - enlighten my eyes, night, night - wake up my ears, morning, night, unite my hear

I very much appreciate both the poet and the composer, but except for the first stanza the original text is horrid. I therefore started to create my own lyrics, at least for a second stanza. The content is similar to other Body-Love-Songs, but I'm introducing a new term to my thinking and singing, instead of the wornout "partner"=shutaf, I now play with "amit", as a possible equivalent for "peer". "amiti", written with an Ayin means "my peer" -in this very moment a knock at my door, 7:05 PM : my landlord with some hot food and with his little son, not yet 3! He wanted to show me a drawing and stay with me right there.... His name is "Amit" with an Ayin! "amiti", written with an Alef means "truthful, genuine"! That is the one I'm yearning for amiti ha-amiti - My True Peer

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RE-Creation-in-slow-motion Masterchef Israel       Summer    2011

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Everyone wants to be a Cook, a special program with the finalists of Masterchef
It is really a summary or an excerpt or a demonstration
of what the judges, here: ChaimCohen, intended to achieve



Read from right to left

"And also the assignment with Elihav, together"

"And you must know, that we, the judges, too, learnt a lot from you "The level of cooking we met here , is among the highest I met in restaurants, truly"

"And now we'll begin to cook.
Each dish I prepared is dedicated to one of you.
So listen... first of all what remains for you to do , is to enjoy.
There is no pressure, no giving points.

"My first dish I want to dedicate to Avi.
I think that you, Avi, made an amazing path~~,

"we were excited together with you. Everybody says: the story, the story, yet the story we already put aside. Neither did you come here and to this status only because of the story, you have the hand of a cook, you know how to cook, and that's what in you enchants you most of all. Now come here, make a dish of fish with me."

Elihav: "What a noise [in the pot]!" Immanuel: "was there olive-oil in it?" Chaim:"No, I'm not yet putting oil" Now Chaim draws Avi out about his story. I, Rachel, always admired these talented cooks, for being able to answer questions while cooking, and this under the pressure of time and being exposed. Avi tells, how much he likes to cook, but when he had doubts about exposing himself and his family in case he would be accepted to Masterchef, not only his family, but his rehab guides recommended it warmly. "why?" asked Chaim, "Because a person in the situation I was in, is a "solist". For his healing he has to learn social skills: "Everything is done after consulting someone you know well"

"First of all I see the support on the street, that's something incredible~~" [Rachel; It hurts me, how the fish is cut..]

"do you feel that following Masterchef you are more committed to healing?" "Very much so"

Immanuel and Elihav gave focused attention to both, Chaim's tips with regard to the dish of the fish, and Avi's relating to his process of learning-healing. Now Chaim turns to Avi's friends: "What did you think about Avi, when you began in the team of 14? " Immanuel: "the truth is that something special happened to me with Avi. In the beginning I ignored his cooking totally. Avi actually came into my life like some angel, in a personal situation, not connected to cooking at all. It was then that I already felt very close to Avi."

Chaim taught them: you have to cook the tomatos, till all the fluids evaporate - a bit of salt will help.

Chaim shares, that he was afraid that Avi's kitchen was too limited, but he proved, that he could learn fast. Avi: "Do you know what freed me? the dish of Gili - when we had to exchange baskets. I was on my way to Morokko and now - Gili's basket - something totally different. - Cream, forest-fruits , everything of which I never thought in my life, - on this I fell." Elihav: "I won't forget - I was standing behind you and I saw your visage - wai! - ..." Avi: "What's that! I was seeing black, black...But this assign-ment freed me, I simply flowed."

Avi understood, that he was simply afraid, and that he had to let go of his fear. This reminded Chaim of what Eyal said about Avi after the darkness-blindness-assignment, when Avi thought he had grabbed a goose, but it was a duck (or vice versa) : "I'll tell you something about Avi - Avi doesn't make problems - he has a goose or a duck, he makes it, give him a peacock, he'll make a peacock. He doesn't make problems"

"You can put your hot things, garlic and pepper. " Chaim puts the fish, Immanuel looks

"Now see, most of the water has evaporated.

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This is a promo for the sequence of images about the Rosh-Hashanah family togetherness on Sept. 20, 2011,
to which each family contributed one or two dishes, and Immanuel was asked to prepare his "famous Risotto".
But when 2 days before he and I mourned the dumped Finale dish,
which was multiplied by one hundred by 15 cooks, but not used,
since he was not among the last two competitors for the Masterchef title.
I suggested to perhaps compensate for it by preparing it for the family.

As to the photo, posed by someone else:
"Grandma, you are deteriorating, you hate posing", said Ayelet,
I justified myself, that I only took advantage of the situation:
Immanuel's dish in the hands of his stepsister Dita
and he himself - in the Masterchef apron, which Efrat had smuggled into Micha's and Ra'ayah's kitchen secretly - with his brother Micha.