Two Sirs with a Problem

2100 years ago, we found a sorcerer. This oracle had just graduated from the Delphi Academy of Art, specializing in fortune-telling using colors:

She doesn’t know to read Tarot, because plastic hasn’t been invented yet, not to mention a decorative crystal ball with all the lightning inside, for electricity was patent registered exclusively to the mighty God.

Colors representation is made by words only, not by fruits, nor by substances manufactured by Mexican cartels, for yet Columbus was not yet born, and consequently neither has the ketchup.

Although alcohol might be a good idea to get the sorcerer into The-Mood. But for some reason, we may never know about, the World Health Organization (WHO) of 2100 years ago, as a mediator between the men and spirits, didn’t yet accept Sake, potato-made beverages and Gin as part of the registration papers.

So, we are in the middle of a crisis. Our camel began to meow. Yes, we are not wrong, meow like a cat: ニャー, मियांउ, мяу, مواء.

And it is a disaster because he is the beloved queen supreme-leader of his herd, first-to-his-name camel… furthermore, he began to smoke our cigarettes, in public, in front of our wives!

Such an embarrassment, and we must fix it ASAP! Or else… our honor degrees that come along with the job description as Sirs will be chopped off, literally.

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Eternal Peace

Her mother passed away two months ago, the father a year before, and today she is. My parents speaking about the tragedy, calling others to inform;It is somehow the leftovers of the communal sense.

“Amir, do you know who passed away today? The daughter of Tzipora (bird). I know how close you were with each other. She asked about you many times during her mother’s mourning days (שבעה)”.

They are ultra-Orthodox, which means those-who-worship-God-in-every-step-of-life… and this bond we had between two different communities is a rare sight. This is how Israeli society has been arranged.

Now they are preparing themselves for the funeral. The Holy-Man (Rabbi) would prepare the body of the deceased for a hole in the ground. Would ask in behalf of the participants for forgiveness. 4 man would take her for eternal peace (למנוחת עולמים). And I would be here with the keyboard also because of the COVID-19 spread. 

Image: Jess Foami

A Stretchr

To hold the body of the deceased that was placed by the holy-man… in Israel it is the job that led by the Rabbi, the Rabbi purified the body at the purified bath. The Rabbi also asks the attendees to repeat him and ask for forgiveness. Then, convoyed by the Rabbi, 4 men, or on a car, taking the body of the deceased on its last journey, to a body-sized hole in the ground. Yesterday I was one of those 4 men, and while holding on the left, I was surprised to see my brother on the right. The holy-man preys. “Brother”, I have called him. Tweets, sand winds. I’m looking into his eyes: “This is auntie”. The sister of our mom… So strange to feel so many memories in one word – auntie. Auntie was covered by 5 heavy cement boards with soil above.

Photo: Matson Collection

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