this story you can start 50 years ago,
when my grandfather,Yekutiel Schwartz, and grandma Miriam, established Bnei-Avraham
a tiny,green,settlement, full with henhouses, and surrounded with feilds
which most of its citizens are immigrants from Yemen.
This story you can start also a year ago
when my grandfather committed suicide, a week before Yom Kipur.
he was the head of the council and they accused him in embezzlement.
they took him to an investigation in the police station and put his picture on the newspaper.
grandpa Yekutiel was hurt and insulted and jumped from the settlement's water tower.
in the year the passed since than, my grandma almost didn't get out of the house.
she sat and planed how she will clear grandpa's name,
in the commemoration day, a year to his death
at the presence of all the residents of Bnei-Avraham
she brought Pinhas Goider, the present head of the council,
and dictated him the exact words which he will bear tommorrow at the commemoration .
Here, infront of the council house which you ran, we tell you,
you filled your mission, Yekutiel.
May you rest in peace
and speak loudly. -what?
speak loudly. when you speak, point.
what, point? point at who?
when you say "Synagoge", point at the synagoge. -uh, sure.
when you say "Council", show the council house,
let them see with their eyes. -sure,sure, "God willing"(no promises)
with a promise
and then you'll invite everyone to my house.
for refreshment, i will take care
wait,
maybe... so maybe Avraham will speak, after all he is the son.
usually the son... -You. You are the head of council,
It's important it will come from you, Pinhas.
On Avraham, as you know, you can't count.
Pinhas knows Avraham can't be counted on.
When they were kids, my dad hunged on a tree, with his head down,
and left him to swing until the morning.
Bomba, the army evacuate us by force.
If the army evacuate you by force, so hold the ground with more force.
Chain you have, over?
there are chains, but...
Avraham, also called "Bomba", is my father.
he live in a settlement in the Shomron.
and he is the reason i ran out of home
and came living near granma in Bnei Avraham. you will understand later.
so tie yourself with chains to one another
and then start singing "All the world".
"and the main thing, and the main thing..."
My father loves Israel, loves to talk dirty,
but he loves the most to run everyone's life.
And this is me, Avishay Schwartz.
a cantor and teach kids to the Bar mitsva.
Batsedek... Good, go on.
Tomer, I can't hear you.
Rabbi Avishay, what are you doing?
i spilled the tobacco. i'm putting it back in the cigarette.
and i'm not a rabbi, what rabbi?
Who said you can come in here anyway? did i let you? get out, sit.
and i haven't had love yet
good... go on, Tomer
"Rooni vesimhi..."
never mind, let get back to my father, who tool on himself a month ago
to cover all the settlement with ads for my grandfather commemoration.
kid, kid, come here.
Me? - You with the bicycles Choco-Moco, come here.
if my father wasn't a settler, i'm sure he was a mafia member.
Listen kid, i have a very important mission for you.
not interested
it's not just a mission, it a mitzvah.
Mitzvah? why not.
No one understand how my noble grandmother,
and my great teacher grandfather,
Had a son like my dad.
When he left 20 years ago, and went settle in the hills,
all the settlement was relieved,
but now he came back
well... what's wrong? -everything's find.
Tommorrow morning, religious kids will hang it in all the village.
You would think religious kids will hang at as a mitsvah?
Fuck no! 200 shekels the took. -Avraham!
Sorry, mom , sorry.
How dare you?
ok,it just came out, i said i'm sorry.
You come here with the ads
two weeks late and expect an applause?
Thank you very much Avraham. we managed without you.
I see. ok, i'm going to Avishay.
In your dreams you are going to Avishay.
All the village comes here tommorrow after the commemoration.
start making the tables, and fixing the chairs.
and don't touch the fridge, it's all counted there.
and this is Zachy.
and that's what he loves to do in the morning.
and that was the window of the new non kosher butcher shop
of his aunt, Ziona.
what are you standing there you two? get up, start picking the broken glass
come on kid, 3 more ads to 200 shekels.
strong nation will not fold. Drive kid, Drive!
Ziona got merried to Dr. Alex Alexandrov,
a specialist surgeon for breast cancer that came here from Russia and became a butcher thanks to her.
another one ran off. -others will come.
We don't need this Alex,
all those refrigerators that everyone will see.
what was bad for us before? little place, quietly.
little place, little money. -i work here as a donkey.
selling stuff that i am shame of. god forbid.
most of the clients i don't know anymore.
they speak a language that i don't understand.
you were already an Israeli. you started talking Russian again. only russian.
i don't want it like that.
Zionoosh...
i sell... what people love.
what, everything is a chicken? we eat other stuff too.
whoever loves Jahnoon, what, i go and break his window?
god bless you, eat a Jahnoon.
what's wrong with you? meat is meat.
and this is Anna, the hero of my story.
Good Morning.
look at that.
they broke your window.
they brought fresh bread,
if you want a breakfast.
go make a circumcision .
she told me.. to get circumcised. -when is she leaving?
again?
what do you want from me? what do you want, that i'll throw her to the street?
it's my brother's daughter, she's a family.
the great commemoration to my grandfather was about to begin at 12 pm
but the ads hanging was over only at 11:30
there was a smell of a fiasco
and yet my father found the time to make my a surprise inspection.
when was i last here? -about 2 months ago
when mother threw you out. why?
cause then i put this rubber band on your Tfilin.
you haven't used it since then.
well dad, what do you want me to do?
i wake up to late. -so wake up at 7, god damn it!
your grandfather's commemoration is in half an hour and you still sleeping?
look how you live. not getting merried, not working. not studying.
I do work. for your information, i teach 4 kids to the Bar Mitsvah now.
don't say not working. -what do you say?
Israel needs Tigers, Lions,Eagles.
what do I got? a little bird. tsif-tsif-tsif. a Canarian.
Tell me Avishay, are you gay?
what? -Fagale.
Fagalon.
at this stage i understood that except emptying my fridge,
my dad had other plans
Avishay, i'm trying to tell you
that i decided to run for that Mafdal party to the Kneset.
Why?
We need a hawk, a real settler to make them stronger. -well?
and who bother you? -I need votes, Avishay.
and votes you get here, in the center
not in our place in hell, in the settlements.
you see? so i thought i'll start here, in this place, where i was born and grew up.
you can forget about me. I know you and no way i'm voting for you.
and don't finish my Kabanos. you finish the pickles, dad, really!
you will vote what i tell you to vote
and start moving your ass cause we are late.
at grandma's, everything was ready
to welcome all the visitors that'll come after the commemoration
to ask forgivness of the dead and his widow.
and from the tape came out mt gradfather voice
that was the village cantor.
i asked you that he will bring the porks at night.
at night, not in the middle of the day.
ok, what do you want now?
tell her to get dressed, she's walking here half naked again.
move, move. it's 220.
200? -220.
oh, thank you very much.
220 to you
and 20 to you.
Hi, how are you? -good, thanks.
that's all you buy? - i'm a vegetarian.
you're a vegetarian? go to the greengrocer. i'm not opening the cash machine for that.
See you on Monday.
You know him? -no.
so what's "See you on Monday"? what do you have with him?
i don't know, maybe from my jobs. -My jobs....
Anna came to Israel for a week, to bring her father to burial.
she didn't know you need to have a confirmation from the rabbinate
and she didn't imagine how much it will cost.
that's why for months she took any job she could get.
Enjoy, enjoy, with your tiny ass.
Beauty is a passing thing, honey.
the time was 12 pm already.
but the masses... weren't in the horizon.
what's that, Avraham, that's all?
few more minutes, no pressure.
oh... here is Pinhas. you see? you worried for nothing.
Mrs. Schwartz, may god comfort you with the rest of Zion mourners in Jerusalem.
we came to fill the quorum.
no no, thanks a lot, there's no need.
many people will come.
the council told us to come, so we came.
the head of the council will not come?
Avraham, what's that he will not come?
"Merciful god in heavens
find us a right rest"
"under the Divine Presence wings"
i wish it for myself after 120
look what privacy he got. -privacy? you moron,
that a donkey's burial, god forbid, outside the fence.
" Yekutiel sons of Yaakov's souls, that passed away"
"For all his family
are praying for mentioning his soul
in heaven, may his rest..."
now it was clear. that the rally my gradma planned,
infront of the council's house, will probably not happen.
she didn't accept us to drive her also.
she got back home alone, to plan the next step.
"With Mercy....
"For you are true the raise the deads
"Bless you lord
"which is raising the deads"
Walla.
you will start working today!
the clothes. -the money. -there, in the pants.
beat it!
Anna, will you respect the house you live in?
what house, ha?
what house? your witch threw me here in the warehouse.
ok, it's not my buisness.
anyway i'm going back home.
i have a conference tommorrow at the rabbinate. -again? god forbid.
that's why i came here.
but they axplained you logically that's it's impossible, the laws are differrent here.
get it off your head. it's already a year that your going with the head on the wall
You shut up! - what?
You shut up.
you can resolve the problem in 5 minutes
but you don't want to.
i want to, but I can't
ok, you don't have to.
i already found me a man. he is religous,
and he knows all the laws here.
he will help me.
i don't need your favores anymore.
and how much does it cost you?
all my money.
i'll have left only for a flying ticket. and bye bye.
Anna, you are making a mistake. what do you have there?
it's a normal country, trust me, i'm here for more than one day.
find a job, get merried,
your hebrew is good already, well, for what?
sometimes one man bring a disaster on everyone.
sometime one man make a deed and save everyone.
like out tiny Zachy. everyday fights alone the porks.
his privilege will stand for us in the judgment day. -god bless you.
Judgment day is comming, gentlemen. veniality prayers at 5:30 am,
i remind you all, however wants to gain a mitsvah,
should go to the big..and empty Ashkenazi synagoge.
May you be inscribed in the book of life. -you too.
now, you run home to mother. ok? and not standing in the way, ok?
come on, home.
that's the man that needs to decide on Anna's case
Rabbi Eliyahu Hason, head of the religous judges in Bnei-Avraham.
i was still sleeping, when in the morning a day after the commemoration ,
things started rolling quick forward.
grandma had a new idea, how to clear grandfather's name.
you don't have to worry at all. you can ask about me.
i never lost a case.
on the other hand, the russians, it's a problem.
but, without offending you, with russians it's first 2000 shekels in advance
so before we begin, have 2000?
i have 1500.
cash.
for you, Svetlana
Anna. -Anna. i hope you're not offended
sometimes people ask for help and money to pay after, nothing.
stuff like that... foreign language,
signature from many places, duplicates,
translations, forms, confirmations, phone calls, stamps.
one time i went all the way to Bukhara so free a mooring woman.
Pinhas. -not now, not now.
good.
I am...
I'm, I'm... I'm very sorry, Miriam.
they stuck me a conference in the Ministry of the Interior. I, i swear, what...
what haven't i said to them, it's the commemoration for my former,
his widow his a soul mate,
i begged, nothing, stuck it and that's it.
the will of God. -yes...
come please, we will sit in my office.
Ronit? well, pick up the phone. i know you are home.
Ronit, answer me. did you get the grocery?
I want to see you.
Pinhas... -not now, not now.
in a moment, Pinhas. -what's that?
ok, let sit outside. fine.
They take over my council.
They do what they want with the budget,
they dropped new religous judges on me,
what judges, Mirriam. god forbid, they are all repentants.
i'm a dinosaur to them. an alien.
still, you are the head here now.
still there are things only you can do.
what does it mean? you need something?
only one thing.
Anna Alexandrov.
application presented in the rabbinate in Ashqelon...
denied.
application presented in the rabbinate in Petah Tiqwa...
denied.
in Be'er-Sheva - denied. in Ashdod - denied.
Russian lady, did you open a network here?
she's not the issue here. the confirmation for the father.
Where is the father?
he is here, but not with us.
so is he here or not?
yes and no, hard to explain...
come on, take it out.
Is he here inside?
Is the father here inside?
Yes, your honors.
and the lady is asking to bring him to an Israel burial, that's all
I don't know what to tell you, Never in my life i heard that someone ask for such a thing.
Pinhas, a woman needs to rest near her husband.
But Mirriam... -All life we've been together.
i want a burial place near my husband.
I'm willing to pay any amount of money.
It's not about money, Mirriam.
Yekutiel is buried outside the fence, cause that's the Jewish religious law.
there... that's where they bury the suiciders.
No one gets buried there from his will. it's not...
It's a shame, a stain, why would you want a thing like that?
that's why.
who will erase the stain if not his wife?
I owe him.
And you too.
Not now, not now, not now! stop it.
what's wrong with you? can you hear yourself? to bring you the money back!
why would I bring you the money back?
But you didn't do anything for it.
Lady, if you would go to the doctor, and the medicines wouldn't work,
You'd ask for the money back? never!
Only with us everything is going, right?
My money! -leave it, leave it. Leave the bag! what's wrong with you?
I didn't touch her. She fell by herself. you's a witness.
Grandma! Grandma, The russian woke up. Grandma!
Shh... don't yell. I'm from Russia too.
Why do you beat me? I help you and you beat me?
Go to the kitchen and bring a plate of soup from the pot
Why not, to help and to get beaten. until here, grandma. - ok, ok.
How do you feel?
Do you know hebrew?
A little.
Where do you live?
Don't worry, your bag is here.
I have to go. -No, no , wait
first eat the soup, then a shower.
Then we'll see.
Maybe they took her to the police.
that's why you didn't cum?
She didn't return, maybe there's a problem.
There is a problem. my husband is stupid.
ok, i'm going to check where is she.
You're going, you don't need to come back. you hear me?
this is not your business. -not my business?
all the village is talking about me behind my back.
Fine, let them talk. she's my family.
I don't say anything about your family.
Thank you very much, really, you ungrateful.
My family put money here so we could open a business
A business... a business of disqualified chickens
That instead od throwing them. they sell it in my place.
Mother fuckers!
I will break someone's head now! -Alex!
What have you done? is it ok to do like that? is it ok?
Alex! leave him, Alex!
You shut up!
What are you doing? why are you doing that to me?
You broke me 3 windows already! 3 windows!
You get back with all that to Russia! Fucking Russian!
Stop! stop! stop!
''...עוצו עצה ותופר''
Get out! go! you dogs!
Alex, Alex...
You are bleeding!
It's not acceptable what's going on here.
Father, Since you came here, Only demands you have for me.
You stay in my place, act like a guest.
Avishay, you are mine, your appartment is mine,
everything you have, is mine.
What's that?
Well, you like it?
No. - Too bad.
cause from tommorrow, you start scattering it around the village.
Why me? -So who, me?
I carry, I unpack, I scatter, and you, what will you do?
I will get elected. come on, go get the rest of the boxes from the car.
and come sleeping, cause tommorrow you have lots of work
and first thing on the morning we are going to gradma to speak a a very....
importent matter -What is it?
a surprise. wait until the morning
"Have mercy on your creations,"
"And be happy with your creations,"
"And then those under you will say"
"In you justice are you loads"
a nightingale or not? what a voice, ha? what a voice.
exactly like dad is standing here between us and sings.
People are paying to hear him. tell her where you made a Seder, tell her.
In club Med Turkey
They paid him to make the Sedder to all the Israelies.
i heard it for the hundred time.
So when Pinhas will arrive, this is what you will tell him.
that for the memory of his dead grandfather
it's should be that Avishay will be the cantor here in the synagoge, in Yom Kipur.
big deal, like it's tha national theater.
Yes, everybody's old, can't hear anymore.
on the contrary, old folks remember how it once was.
before all this village got filled with "Ahawa Ahawa"
when a knitted skullcap was honored. i want people to cry.
Why is it so important to you that they will cry?
it's important to me, ok?
uh, he didn't tell you? it's because he wants to run for the Knesset. -what? - yes.
what's wrong? they need people like me
Who needs people like you?
you'll only ask Pinhas that Avishay will be the cantor.
in our synagoge in Yom Kipur
So if Avishay will be the cantor, you will be elected for the Knesset?
oh... he has a plan.
all the old people sit together.
listening to the grandson pray in his grandfather style,
remembering their big days with the grandfather,
and electing the father to be their representative man in the Knesset. here, please.
it was a very stupid plan.
but my father believed in it with all his heart.
really... he will sing a little and they will quickly elect.
not quickly. first i'm giving a speech that the walls will tremble.
They will not let you. -If you will ask, they will.
Oh, here he is.
If Pinhas would have known that my father was waiting there,
he wouldn't have fallen into the trap.
When they were kids, my father hung him on...
i've already told you.
Hello to the Schwartzes.
Here, ask him yourself.
Ask me what?
Say Pinchook, i wanted to ask you something.
Those pants you wear,
it's the same pants for 20 years,
or you bought a pair then and you hop...changing all the time.
Avraham, don't start, I'm asking you, don't start.
People here... missed you a lot.
Told you?
Peace.
What are you jumping already? apologize. apologize? for what?
"For what" you ask me?
Maybe for not comming to my father's commemoration...
Yes, well... they stuck me a... -Stuck you, you say?
commemoration for the former head of council,
and the present head of council's not comming?
Stand straight, what are you wriggling?
A cantor for Yom Kipur you have? -Yes, The...
The Bnei-Akiva guide. -The Bnei Akiva guide... what do you say?
What else are you planning for us? fire inscription,
Folk dancings, night exercises ? -Mirriam...
Why does he say "us"? Who's "us"?
He wants Avishay to be the cantor in "Kol Nidrey"
You're not going to Marmaris? -Yes, I mean...
Changed his mind at the last minute.
Yes, but i already told... And we don't have a lot of money.
So he's giving up the money. How are we?
The main thing is that the grandson will continue where the grandfather stopped.
Sit, sit, why are you standing? sit.
Well, what? -Well, what?
And a speech for the son.
A speech for the son? -What son?
The son, the son, how many sons do i have?
This one?
You, come with me. -What now?
You have rehearsals for the prayer to make, so you won't humiliate me, well. come on.
Take a look.
"crown..."
Do you have an answer for me? -That's why i came here.
I'm taking care of that but you're making it hard on me, Mirriam.
What's that story about the russian girl?
What russian girl? she fainted and i helped her.
Well, it's not good.
People say you took her in here.
Saw you. -what's wrong?
Because she's a fraud who put some dust in a jar,
and came before the religous judges to ask for a confirmation to bury it.
She's not even a jew. She doesn't have the right to be here.
It's not good for your application, Mirriam.
That they will connect your name with questionable people. i already clarified.
What you are asking is a very tenuous matter, very exceptional.
I didn't know it's wrong. I thought...
So I'm telling you it's wrong.
As long as you dealing with the russian, i can't fill your request.
With all the good will. -Ok Pinhas, I heard you.
well done.
Well?
Well what?
You have a name? -Anna -Anna. Ana Veana (to and fro)
To and fro, and we.. where are we going. Genesis 37, write it down.
-god forbid. -Pleased to meet you, Avram.
Mother - Son - a parasite.
Why are you talking in a russian accent?
She's russian, mother. How will she understand?
Ignore him. come, I need to talk with you.
What's up?
Ok, i had it with the non koshers, with the porks,
With my window getting broken, with the fines, with the debts,
and with your russian friends and with the fightings with my family.
Fine with you? fine. not fine, i'm through with you.
Now choose. Me and everything's Kosher,
Or your whore relative and the porks.
What's Anna got to do with the window? -Everything.
I want you to make her leave.
As you see, she's already leaving.
Yeah right, for a year i hear the same story. That's it.
Now it's for real. -You really want the help her to go back to Russia?
Yes.
So take. Give her that.
What's that?
That's Eliyahu. head of the religous judges here.
I don't want to do it but i don't have a choice.
You see the adress? He's going there to meet a woman.
How do you know that?
People saw him. He lives here and walking around there.
What does it mean?
If you really want to help her, give her this note.
Tell her to go there, to catch him red handed, threat him, yell at him,
Finish her story and get the hell out of here
She and all the porks you brought here.
Take it away from here. -But why, Ronit?
Because, I don't need favores from you.
Why are you comming here?
What do you mean? I came to check out on you.
It's not your business anymore how i am.
Stop calling here. Stop comming here.
But i worry about you.
Eli, you already had a chance and you blew it.
So now forget about me.
Take it.
Well, take it.
Tell me how was the exam. -Not your business.
So when is the surgery? -there's a line a kilometer long.
There's no surgery. -Let me try and inquire for you, Maybe i can do something.
What a big man.
More important people tried and didn't succeed.
Bye.
Say hi to your wife.
If you'll admit you're crazy about me still,
I'm taking the grocery from you.
You will tell them about you father.
About his dream to come live here,
And how he didn't make it.
Thos are logical people. This is why they are there.
Did you tell them it was his last request, to be buried here.
I told them, but they threw me out.
And one of them said because my mother is not jewish,
I'm not jewish either.
But did you tell them you want nothing?
No money, no "Sal Klita", only to bury the dust and get back home.
They laugh at me, cause i'm from Russia.
It's not logical.
Tear out this one, on the branch down there.
Can you reach there?
Say. -What now?
Would you give it to her?
Dad don't exaggerate, ok?
Avisay, I am your father.
Evreything you think, i already thought.
Ah-ah-ah. Aye-aye-aye. uh?
Look Anna. I heard you I believe you.
I'm going now to talk with the judges for you.
They'll treat me differrent
And this kid, that you so disrespect,
leaves everything and go to a foreign land,
going around here for months like a dog,
To fulfill her father's last request,
To be buried in a jewish grave yard in Israel. -That's what she says.
That's exactly what she says. Why don't you believe her?
Can you tell me what's that dust she put in the jar?
Maybe ot's a cat's dust after all, or a gentile?
And how do I know that after the burial, she'll want to go back to Russia?
Maybe she'll fall in love with us and want to stay?
Someone has to be the bad guy and ask
the questions, even if they're not pleasent.
Even in the country-club they don't accept everyone.
so much the more the grave yard, a holy place. Here we need a proof.
And if there's not a proof, there's no authorization.
Ok, she got it. Now, come with me outside please.
And if there are cases you can't prove?
But here you can prove. The witness can prove.
A witnee? What, there's a witness? What witness?
If it will not work? -What not work...
Our family is of the establishers of this place. Think she will not make it?
Who are all these people?
These peopel until the holocaust.
Those died in the holocaust.
That one with the medal is my deceased grandfather.
And the one with the mustache, that's my father.
Everyone has a mustache.
Right.
there guys went 30 years ago to establish settlement in the hills.
Inside the arabs. settlers, heard about them? Never mind. to make it short, this is where i was born.
Take.
Where do you have that from?
My grandma grow it in the yard.
Your grandma is really a good woman.
yes, uh? well, she doesn't know. She gives it water, it grows, and i smoke.
And this is me. -Cute.
Just an ordinary kid.
What's bad about it?
Cause after all this dynasty i should have been a genius.
And I'm not.
So what do we do?
What do we do? smoke... what do we do...
Come.
Come. I teach something.
What? -Come...
What is it?
Paravochik. -Para-what?
How do you say in hebrew, what carry the train?
A locomotive? -A locomotive, but a tiny one.
Paravochik.
Wow, you choked me.
Can I have another one?
Grandma, It's not what you think.
I was just telling her about our dynasty.
About all the Rabbis, about mustache, in the holocaust.
Especially about grandfather I told her.
Avishay, go home please. -But I...
I need a few words with Anna.
But... -Now!
I tried to help you and you tricked me.
You're wrong, Mirriam. You are wrong.
They told me you're a fraud.
And I didn't believe them.
What did you think, that it will be easy to trick me?
Why trick?
It's only an authorization to bury.
What's wrong, Mirriam?
It's only dust.
Who knows if he's Jewish?
How will they bury him in a jewish cemetery?
There are laws.
And now suddenly...
There's a witness.
Who is that? -He's my father's brother.
What? -But he doesn't want to testify.
He has a problem with the religous counsil.
What's his name?
Alex
What Alex?
Where is he?
Here in the village.
He has a butcher shop.
A butcher shop?
The russian's non-kosher?
Yes, it's his.
But... he gives me work and a place to sleep
And only because he's my father's brother But testify he will not, Mirriam.
I tried everything, he won't.
You want me to go?
What happened? Why is she mad?
Avishay, it's not your business.
Let me go. -Go where?
Avishay, I have to work. move. -What work now?
At least let me walk with you.
Fuck!
Not yet, don't look yet. Don't look.
One more momemt.
My father's campaign got accelerated.
He left me and started harassing the village's old people.
The establishers gentlemen.
Remember the days, when our great synagogue
was full with people every Shabbat,
Tens of people with knitted skullcap?
Good.
Now I ask you all to turn around please.
I ask you to open your eyes.
Here you go. woe to the eyes that see that.
What? see what? -Exactly,
Nothing to see.
The great Ashkenazi synagogue is abandoned and empty.
And? -And? it's our obligation to fill it.
Ok, ok. Tsivia, come. Let's go home.
What? -Come -Wait, where are you going?
Avraham, you don't even have the keys to the door,
How do you plan to fill it?
With a little faith, Mrs. Pomerans
With a little faith we will fill the synagogue already in Yom Kipur.
Men, women, and kids.
Bomba's word.
Bomba's word...
Happy you agree.
"Everything's meat
"Nothing left
"Something starts, something ends..."
The head, raise your head a little.
Strech your left hand a little.
Good. the left leg strech a little.
Good. Thats it, excellent.
Good...
"That you even were here
"World of eyes
"Fiction against reality"
Good. See you
"So, where is god,
"Inside or outside?"
How could you do that?
What are you doing here? - I saw everything! You're a whore, you're a real whore!
Why are you doing this?
Because I need money.
And I don't have a grandmother and a father that help.
I'm alone.
"So come,"
I'm sorry.
"Come and see
"The soft light,
"In the twilight time.
"There's a holiday's smell in the air
"You feel special
"You feel one.
"Everything's flesh..." -Anna.
"Nothing left
"We didn't make it to everything"
Where did you disappear?
So, how was it with that man?
Didn't work.
And the money?
Gone.
So what does it mean? You're staying with us?
I don't know what to do.
I have nothing here,
and i can't go back there until i'll finish that.
Take.
What's that?
I'll explain...
Take.
Six steps, seven steps,
eight steps, nine steps, ten.
Here you go. Ten steps divided to two is 5 meters.
Very close, and close to the walk way.
Easy arrival, and a water tap.
Even half a meter. I asked near him.
I checked, Mirriam.
This is the closest you can according to the jewish laws. closer than that is forbidden.
Strict law.
But I from my free will wants to be close to him.
What's wrong? -The fact that you want, is not enough.
And if I could do something quietly before somehow,
You went and ruined everything with your russian.
Today all the religous council is talking about you.
Don't understand what you have with her.
You promised.
I promised to check it out, I did. Closer than that, forbidden.
I do what I can.
To the grandson i arranged the "Kol Nidrey" in the great synagogue.
The son has permission to speak after the prayer.
And it costed me already...
So as far as you concern it's ok, that this man, who raised you,
Who made you his assistant, inherited you his place,
That this man will lay here alone for eternity,
And everyone that come inside the cemetery will say:
Here lay the thief that committed suicide.
And if you will lay here, will it change something?
Yes.
Mr. Sharabi? nice to meet you. Can i have a minute of your time?
What do you want?
Sir participate the painting course in the villege center? - And...
My name is Avishay. I heard about your class.
Great class. -Yes.
Look Sharabi, I, I have a big love for art. But I personally
Not interested with Picaso,Van Gogh, Mozart, and Salvadori.
Who's Salvadori? -Nevermind, forget it.
I go more to the direction of simple paintings,
Paintings from the field, if you understand me.
I'm interested in buying your painting.
Really? -Really, that last week's painting.
I'm willing to give you 50 shekels for it.
Go away, psycho. -100 shekels?
You know what? wait here a second.
In my bag i already had 19 paintings.
Sharabi was the last in my list.
Here you go.
What are you bending there?
Want a soup? Want a Gefilte fish ?
Want to fight with me? what do you want?
I want to listen to this tapes in my house.
I'm not taking them out.
That's the souvenirs I have from you grandfather.
You want to practice? practice here.
A real angel you are.
I didn't throw her away. She left alone. -Ok.
Yuri, stop grinding and start playing.
What did we brought you here for?
"The purity and azure of the veil,
"the careness and softness of the hand,
"then he told me no, i will not forget
"our farewell forever.
"then he told me no, i will never forget,
"our farewell forever.
"And then came the day,
"And we suddenly split,
"the azure of the veil, a touch of complacence
"and the dream came true"
They took our song and made it arab.
Anna, why are you sitting here?
Come out, we have a barbecue.
You need to be happy a little.
How much hapiness do we usually have?
Get the fuck out!
Well Yafim, where are you?
It's an Israeli song, what you make russian words to it?
Well what?
Attention, ladies and gentlemen.
we'll soon go back to dancing and singing,
But now to the main event.
Friends, an announcement.
As from tommorrow, anyone who wants to eat good food,
How do we say it...
Go fuck themself
And this is why today it's the last chance,
so eat until you explode,
Cause as from tommorrow
I sell only kosher.
A parasite will come, hang a certificate,
take money and that's it...
Nothing to worry...
From the back door we will still sale disqualified chickens.
of dear Ziona's family. -Alex.
Ok. Nothing to worry.
To make ot short, life's go on.
Cheers! -Cheers! -For the chickens!
"So he told me no, i will never forget
"our meeting forever."
Anna! Anna!
You come here and bullshit about your mitvahs.
Read Psalms, changing my mezuzahs every two days.
What do I need all your mitsvahs for?
When i really wanted you, you left.
I left? What other choice you left me?
You yelled at me.
Smoked in Shabbat in intention infront of me.
Go away Eliyahu. I'm not made out of stone.
I see you in the street, going with your children,
My stomach is turned over.
Leave me alone. I beg you.
I can't. You are a part of me.
Which you threw to the garbage and went to another woman.
Ronit, I swear to you...
Say one word, accept minimum Shabat and Kosher,
I'm comming back to you.
So kiss me.
Kiss me.
What are you doing here? It's not your home, right?
And you judge me? You're a Rabbi! Shame on you!
You play like you are religous and come here for a girl.
Excuse me, who are you?
Now i'm telling in the rabbinate what you're doing here.
I see. You came here to blackmail me, uh?
How did you know I'm here? -Everybody knows.
He's religous and comes here. What does he have here? A girl?
He is religous and you are not. here.
Eliyahu, what does this girl want from you?
The lady is trying to blackmail the religous Law court and do whatever she pleases.
The lady brought a jar, said her father's dust is inside,
and oh dear if we'll believe here. And if it's not enough,
she sent us the widow of the last head of council,
the one that... god forbid, Schwartz.
So what, you came here to blackmail me, dear?
You'll change your decision, or i say there is a whore!
Dirty mouth, shut up or i'll throw you out! -Eliyahu!
Calm down! -I will calm down? Listen to how she talks!
Listen sweety...
I'm not a whore, I'm his divorcee. We used to be merried.
Good, soon you will offer her a cup of coffee.
Here, 500 dollars. -What? -Here.
Take it now, I will bring more later, ok?
Just change your decision!
Get your hands off me!
But it's my father!
Eliyahu...
I'm calling the police.
Wait a second...
Go after her.
You're looking for mitvahs? little one just ran away from you. go on.
Go, talk with her.
Call Mirriam Schwartz, so she'll come and take her.
My father is jewish, and i don't know what to do.
How to make you believe me.
It's his last request.
Ok, you may be right, but my hands are tied.
I want to help, but...
You need help with something else? learn hebrew,
Judaizing ulpan, that, i can arrange. No problem.
But in this matter there is a "Shoolhan Arooh"
"shoolhan Arooh"?
Shoolhan Arooh, hebrew laws, there are witnesses, we need a certificate.
it's a "die and not do".
I hope you understand me.
"Die and not do".
I still don't know what touched grandma more.
Anna's grief, or mine.
Go to your uncle and tell him I want to meet him.
He will not accept.
So tell him I want to give you a job, but first,
I want to meet the family. ok?
Where did you study medicine?
In the army academy in Sat Petersburg.
Saint Petersburg.
On Kirov's?
How do you know that?
He has a certificate from there at home. and the license he made here.
We should have brought it.
But i heard they didn't accept jews there.
Jews, not jews, what does it matter now?
What matters is that now, we're all here,
We have a land, an army...
And your brother, Yuri, They didn't take him to the army?
To yuri, dad gave money. They kept him home.
With me, money was over, that's it.
But it's not important. What's important is that i came here.
And then he met me. Tell her Alex, Tell her.
Yes, right. I met her,
As they say, Like a diamond in the ground's ass. -Inside...
In the hen-house, just waiting for me.
Especially... especially for me. -With pleasure, my baby.
Sasha... -Thank you.
You want more borshet? -Yes.
Uh Mirriam, by the way, your borshet is the best. -Thank you.
Very good...
It's ok, It's ok, Avishay will bring.
What am I, A waitress?
And your brother you didn't actually see after? -No.
Anna too I met only here, in Israel.
You know how it is, family. So you help as you can.
Borshet.
Avishay, maybe you'll sing us something?
Sing something with a special tune for your grandmother.
Maybe because of the pressure, just then, i got the high voice.
"She opened her mouth with wisdom
"And a grace lore in her tounge
"Watching her home manners
"And indolence bread,
"She will not eat".
Anna, come with me to the kitchen, help me bring the compote.
"Came and praise her...
"Many girls made marvels...." -That's it, let's go. Yafim.
Alex, what's wrong with you? -She wants my testimony.
You heard what questions she asked me.
Calm down, This are good people. -Oh, really?
So why does she ask how they accepted a jew?
What does it matter now how they accepted a jew? -So she asks, so what? answer her.
We will finish here, say nice goodbye and she will take Anna.
Or you don't want to give her up now.
Look at the wall. There's a full rabbinate here.
Here, one got a medal. It's written.
Tell me, you don't care that I'm here? -What?
You don't care that i'm here,
I hear everything you talk, it doesn't bother you?
What do you want? -My presence doesn't mean anything to you?
Maybe I'm the rabbinate's spy?
Are you? -by chance I'm not, but do you have a way to know that?
You said you're a cantor, no? -So, and if I am, so what?
So keep on singing.
Yafim, stop gorging!
Yafim!
Left.
What, what, what did you say?
I'm an atheist. I'm not getting near the rabbinate.
Why not?
Cause it's my principle. principle.
I'm a scientific man, rational. My brother us dead. over. that's it
It's dust. take it, scatter it in the sea. What is it important anyway?
Stop talking nonesense.
Come, testify, and keep on being principlist how much you want.
Tommorrow morning fine with you? -Come.
I want to tell you something with four ears. -Well...
They didn't circumcise him.
What, they did it to one brother and not to the other one?
No, they didn't the other brother also.
He went to testify for her. After they heard he has a non kosher butcher shop,
They started bothering him: "Take off your pants, Prove you're jewish".
So let him do it now. Let him be circumcised.
Your mother will be circumcised.
She caught a word. All day long "circumcision,circumcision".
You're a gentile anyway and you tell him to get circumcised? -Why not?
Cause I'm not going to wait 6 months for it to heal.
I didn't get merried for that.
And if it won't be the same, will you fix it?
I'm not taking the chance.
It's for her father, his brother.
Let it be his grandmother as far as I concern.
If my brothers knows he's not circumcised,
Tommorrow morning we are seperated.
They already don't like it that i brought a russian.
Wait a minute, what do you mean "brought a russian"?
In the henhouse I found you, 34 years old, In the hen's shit.
I'm a surgeon, They treat me like garbage.
But if Anna means so much to you... -I mean a lot to him, I'm more important to him.
And what about her?
I can't. period.
You don't want to.
I'm sorry. This is my life against my life. Drive.
She's pretty. That's true.
But you will find yourself a good girl one day.
One that don't need to proselytize -Yeah, right.
Don't smoke here. -Good. well done.
Finally I found someone that pee in my direction.
Oh... You started fucking finally.
Avraham... -What?
Who pee in your direction?
Grandma, calm your son down.
Avraham, watch your language. You're not on the Kneset yet.
A matter of time.
Because tonight, from they heavens they set me the ball for a kick.
For a week i explain people that the situation here is getting worse,
And no one knows what I'm talking about.
Me niether know what you're talking about.
Can't you smell it? All the village is full of smoke!
The blacks are burning the russian's butcher shop.
What?
The smell of an extra large grill. Extra-extra large.
Evrything's getting burned there, including the meat.
Call the fire fighters!
Why no one helps, why?
It's all because of her!
My jar is in there!
What's that? who did it?
How much water you pour? It's water or gasolene? what's that?
Why doesn't it go down? Why?
Where are you running? - My jar is there.
You can't run anywhere now. It's burning. everything is burned.
Move aside!
Quick, quick!
Anna come here. You stay here, don't move!
Is there a hot water? I want to take a shower.
A shower...
Here I live. This is the kitchen
Here I sleep.
Nothing happend to you?
No.
Stand in the light for a second, let me see you.
What?
Evreything's fine.
Ok...
A shower.
Good morning.
Is it open?
The fight for Dr, Alexandrov wasn't over.
And this time grandma dropped to the battle feild
an unconventional bomb. -Well done.
You sold porks, what did you think, that people here will sit quietly?
Are you Alex?
What do you want from him?
To start act like a man, god damn it.
Like we don't have enough problem without you...
I'm here to help you.
Help? How can you help?
Oh!
First step.
2 days from now, your husband stand before the council as he's been asked.
Looking inside the judges eyes and say without a confusion,
That you are jewish, you brother is jewish,
your father is jewish, your grandfather, grandmother, all of you are jewish,
A family of rabbis and they can stop their bullshit.
Go fuck yourself.
You're a doctor, no? -how do you know that?
Shut up...
2 phone calls to the right people, and i get mr. surgery here
a job tommorrow morning in the hospital. -As a doctor?
Pathologist. - Pathologist?
What's wrong? it's like a doctor, only the patient is not complaining.
Bomba's word.
And our debt? -Step 2.
You and your russian friends
in the synagogue, here, with us, in Yom Kipur.
Russians in a synagogue. You made him laugh.
Ok.
You don't have to. But when they confiscate your underwear,
And throw you out the village with a kick in your asses,
Don't come to me. I'm Avraham Schwartz, by the way.
You can call me Bomba. Nice to meet you. -Are you from the rabbinate?
on the contrary, maddam. on the contrary.
I'm from the national religous front for the liberation of Bnei-Avraham.
This is my platform.
And really at the moment he got in the car,
My father arranged everything in one phone call.
Bomba...
The man in a surgery expert, a surgeon,
I'm just saying don't bury him in the pathology department.
And if we already talk about surgery, I have another favor I need from you.
Please, there are people outside.
In a second, let them be patient.
Mirriam...
I apologise. Something must have happen.
It's Yom Kipur's eve.
He's a doctor. Maybe he's delaying with patients.
Ok, there's a limit to any joke. Lets move to the other discussion.
Under no circumstances you will not.
He's not comming, Mirriam. What do you want them to do?
We'll wait a little longer.
Your phone.
Hello?
Leave me alone already. I asked nicely, Bomba. Leave me alone.
No, he didn't come. They move to the next discussion.
What are yelling? On me you're yelling?
Who?
What's to you and him?
Ok. Don't yell. Wait a second. It's for you.
Yes. Ronit?
Make a surgery? When?
It's going to be ok. -Are you sure?
Thank you. Look, I... I appreciate it.
Yes. Goodbye.
Gentlemen, this case will never be closed.
If the witness didn't come to us, we will go and get his testimony. -What?!
He knows there are other surgeries today. He doesn't care.
He says it's Yom Kipur today and there's a limit to how they can enslave him. I told him.
He said you can get inside his ass, Yes.
What's that...
To Doctor Alexandrov.
Make it quick.
How will i bring you? What I...
Can I call Dr. Shweid? Where will i bring you a surgeon from now?
We finish quick, and go. -2 floors down.
Straight until the end. -Come.
I don't know. They brought me here. Do I know where I am now..? -What?
No. Amoosi will not come either. No. Forget it. No.
Straight. Come.
No. Can't. Only next sunday.
pathology...
What's that smell?
What a smell, so gross... -Well, well, well, move it, move in, come in.
Alexander Alexandrov. Now we will finish this story.
Well...
What's that, a slaughterhouse? What's that? Is it real?
All I ask is one sentence.
Ok, he's not saying anything. Come on. Let's go. Come.
Tell this people you are jewish.
And you brother Yuri, Anna's father, was jewish too.
My brother is dead. That's it.
What that's it? A jewish is a soul. A soul is eternal.
Yeah, really? Where is the soul? Here are the kidneys, here is the stomach.
Here is the heart.
Here we have shifts. I cut corpses here. There is no soul.
Pieces of meat. That's all there is.
The soul is divine. It's inside every jewish. Every each one.
Yeah? Please.
You will say.
Is it a jewish man? an arab? chinese? Seek his soul.
Ok.
Yes soul, no soul.
Now testify as you promised.
Alright.
I'm jewish. My father is jewish.
My mother is jewish. Yuri too, my brother, Anna's father, he was jewish too.
Alright? - Not enough. Not enough. -What did you say?
"Against two witnesses it will fall".
The judges are unconscious. There are no witnesses. Not good enough.
So what do you want? -Let him show the circumcision. -What?
This is how it is. - What this is how it is?
It's explicitly written. No witnesses. No permission.
Dr. Alexandrov, Dr. Alexandrov, come urgently to the surgery room.
Dr. Alexandrov, urgently to the surgery room.
Well wake up already!
You crossed the line, Mirriam.
You could try a little harder.
Like what, like they tried for me? -Yes.
Who tried hard for me? the deceased?
Yes, my dead husband really made an efford for your career.
Mirriam, i was a deputy and they gave me his place. That's all.
Wake up already!
Its not my fault there was a financial scandal.
And really not my fault they caught him. -And not you?
You didn't say one word for his behalf.
So you commit a suicide, that's it? It's forbidden acourding to the jewish laws.
It's like a murder, even worse. There are things I can't do.
I'm a religious man.
And what I am to you? -You?
You. You do whatever suit you right.
You have a little pity for the girl from russia,
and you can throw the whole Torah to the garbage.
You got an idea, to clear the deceased Yekutiel name,
And all the jewish laws can bend for you.
A strict law forbids me to give you a place near you husband.
And you know it, and yet you ask.
You made yourself the chief rabbi!
Alright. Enough.
I release you from all my requests.
I'm sorry i ask you to do things you can't.
Things against the jewish law, Mirriam.
You're right, Pinhas.
Alright. I'm sorry i raised my voice.
Me too.
We tried.
Alright. We tried.
I have some matter to finish. Ok? Why are you yelling?
I'll eat the last meal here.
I will see them in the synagogue, the kids.
And drink a lot, so it will not be hard for you. ok? Mrs. Schwartz?
Yes?
Mirriam. -Alright, I'm waiting for you outside.
I'm very sorry, but about the dust. -Yeah.
If he already was burried and they didn;t know where he is.
They wouldn't search the all cemetery.
But as it is, from the start, I'm very very sorry.
You understand me?
Ok. I got it.
Have an easy fasting. -You too.
Well mom, what do you say?
Don't leave your gun like that.
That one in surgery, this one to the pathology,
Say something nice.
Well done, Avraham. - I'm some kind of a genie.
Comes in the right place, fix everyone's life.
Welcome, last meal.
Come Crepalach, come to uncle Avraham.
Sweety. -Come, my sweets.
Push it down.
Push it down a little. -Avishay, stop it.
I'm not a kid. Let me wear what I understand.
He will kill you.
It's Yom Kipur, Prayers, people cry.
They lift their eyes from the prayers book, boom, your ass.
At least push it down a little, so it will not go up.
Hello to you.
What did you ware, scumbag?
A white shirt.
What does it say on the pocket?
"Christo".
That's the shirt's logo. -Christo. What's "Christo"?
Christ. Jesus Christ.
You brought me Jesus Christ to the synagogue for Yom Kipur?
Get the hell back home, change it.
I'm not going.
What did you say?
I'm not going. I'm not a kid anymore. I will ware how i understand.
Well done, you became a man. Now come in.
For what was the slap?
So it will not go up to your head, the Shtigi-digi-digi.
Come.
"Who create..."
A Yom Kipuer's atmosphere came down the house.
I wore Granpa's white kittel, and my heart fell to my underwear.
"Who will rest, and who will move,
"Who will be silenced and who will be eaten,
"Who will rest and who will suffer,
"Who will be poor and who will be rich,
"Who will come down and who will come up,
"and a repentance and a prayer
"and charity
"remove the hard sentence".
Come on, they wait for us, Avishay.
Anna, stay with me for a few minutes.
Mom...
You go. I will come later.
Don't you want to see you grandson pray?
Your son speak?
Go, we will come soon.
Come dad, we are late, come.
Happy holiday. -Happy holiday.
Are you ready?
Where is your jar?
What do you mean? -Come, let's go.
May you be inscribed in the book of life.
So what Bomba, Bnei-Avraham is waking up?
Looks like they all went to sleep.
Fuck...-Why didn't you write the sign in russian?
Have a little faith, Pinhas. Have a little faith, it's will be ok.
If the russians don't come, we're in serious trouble.
Take, start digging.
Your father swore you to bring him to an Israel burial.
That's an Israel burial.
Here we will bury him.
Start.
Mirriam, I'm affraid.
Nothing to be scared of. Evryone's dead here.
Dig, start.
"Kol Nidrey
"ve-esarey
"wo-shvooey
"va- haramey
"ve- konamey
"ve-kinoosey ve-kinooye
"Dindarna
"deyeshtabana"
Good bless you. -Thank you.
"From last Yom Kipur
"to this Yom Kipur
"From this Yom Kipur until..."
Your father's request you made.
After the holiday you can go on a plane and go back home, to Russia.
Yuri Alexandrov,
Everything we did, was for your honor...
Forgive us, if we hurt your honor.
Say Amen. -Amen.
And always remember, ten steps from the last line,
attached to this grave.
Here we will all lay.
Read it
"Yidgadal veYidkadash
"Sheme Raba
"Bealme dibara
"Kireuteh
"Veyamlih malhotey
"Bealme Dibra Hiroteh
"Veyamlih Malhotey
"Behayehon wubeyomehon
"Wubehayey dehol beit Israel
"Wubezman Karev
"VeImroo Amen"
Ronit. -Roniti...
How do you feel?
Good.
Doctor.
I...
Alright, alright.
Feel good.
Mirriam, let's go. I'm cold.
Take it.
You go. I want to stay with my husband a little.
Are you sure?
Go now.
They will come back from the prayer soon.
The sweater you can keep, as a souvenir from me.
You were great. -Thank you, dad. Where is grandma?
I don't know, I didn't see her.
What, Anna's not here either? -Alright, I'm going to make the speech.
Good luck.
The climax of the campaign came,
And Bomba went to make an election speech that will make the walls tremble.
Dear friends.
In the Day of Atonement,
In the day of atonement the sky is open...
I made here a speech, But...
Last Yom Kipur,
I finished a Shivah on my father.
Most of the people here know him,
Few of them came here with him to establish this place.
And we always hoped that new people will come here.
And people came and they are here with us today.
And we didn't know how to accept them.
If my father was alive,
he would have stood here today, excited.
He would have looked at you and say: "You are our brothers."
This place is yours as it's ours.
Please.
I want to finish in the words of the prayer,
"Let it be our flag on you love
"And our crimes you will cover with love.
"And all trouble and bad things reverse please for us and to all the house of Israel
"For Joy and happiness, Life and peace,
"And the truth and the peace -Love"
May you be inscribed in the book of life. -Thank you very much.
May you be inscribed in the book of life.
Avishay.
Anna didn't have a clue where to go now.
Suddenly she got cold.
So she wore the sweater grandma gave her,
And sat on the stairs.
I'm Avishay Schwartz.
A cantor and teach children for the Bar Mitsvah.
My wife's name is Anna,
And to the daughter we had this week, we called Mirriam.
"Everything's meat
"Nothing left
"Something starts, something ends
"And the matters,
"Big and small
"Don't say you were here at all
"A world of eyes
"Fiction against reality
"And where is god
"Inside or outside?
"Once you knew how to cry
"And didn't feel defeated
"What does it matter
"Who against who
"So, come, come and see
"The soft light
"In the twilight time
"There's a holiday's smell on the air
"You feel special
"You feel one"
"To my beautiful Lydia!"