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Because of the closure, this year on Rosh Hashanah I will stay at home with the children, without the synagogue of my childhood in Hatzor. The blessing of earning a living will probably be won by someone else. Come on, Pargan. Wait, maybe you can find some combina- tion and buy the blessing in Zoom? Comedian Nadav Abaxis tells in a personal column about the hallucinatory year he went through - and about us


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Every Rosh Hashanah I go to Dad's synagogue.

This year for the first time I will not come

Because of the closure, this year on Rosh Hashanah I will stay at home with the children, without the synagogue of my childhood in Hatzor.

The blessing of earning a living will probably be won by someone else.

Come on, Pargan.

Wait, maybe you can find some combina- tion and buy the blessing in Zoom?

Comedian Nadav Abaxis tells in a personal column about the hallucinatory year he went through - and about us

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For the first time in many years I am going to be absent from the synagogue in Hatzor on Rosh Hashanah.

Clasp.

It's not that I take cod as seriously as I do.

I do not keep Shabbat, I do not eat in kosher places, but still - Rosh Hashanah.

For years I have come to the synagogue of my childhood, the one my father took me, my six brothers and two sisters to every Saturday to pray.

In recent years it has been mainly to keep up to date with who died, how big the son of the one sitting in the corner grew up, when the renovations we are talking about from 2000 will begin, but mainly to buy the "blessing of livelihood", that famous blessing that believers and I buy. .



Thank God, for years it worked like a Swiss watch.

This year, too, I was sure the blessing did not disappoint.

The livelihood started tap tap, then came the month of March and something with this matter of livelihood started to creak.

Since then - less.

One of the most famous blessings on Rosh Hashanah is "Spend a year and its curses."

So this is it, there is a situation that will take time.

Although the corona is behind us, it seems that not only is it with us, but that it is only it. It leads us, only it is talked about, only it is affected by it. And we have only just begun.

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Then came March.

Nadav Abaxis (Photo: Meir Cohen)

Quite a few of those who watched the series "Black Mirror", and I among them, often grinned in some of the episodes and wondered how absurd they are.

Had this chapter which shows you the whole world stops - from China to the United States, works to flights, brown tests to always carry masks - were grinning. And here we are already half a year in this reality, and it's amazing how quickly we got used to it.



Until Half a year, if someone had come to the office with 39 fever, half the office workers would have stood up and applauded him. What a man it is, came to work when he was half dead. Today if you come with 37 and a half, you are considered dead in the eyes of the workers. An office in Corona. And when I talk about getting an office, that in itself has become a rare occurrence. Illuminated office buildings, which have been a symbol of abundance, technology, competition for those who are bigger, have become ghost towers. Most of us work from home. The interior designer, software engineers, and up to us the stand-up comedians.



Yes, this disaster called Zoom did save us, but it also ended us.

A bit like Iron Dome, he gave a great solution on how to live with the bad situation, less how to get out of it.

From performing in front of 1,000 people at a company event in Eilat Ashkara, I moved to perform in front of 700 open computers.

One sits on the couch, the other feeds the child and the third washes the house while watching the show.

Absolutely real.

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Washes the house while watching me.

Nadav Abaxis (Photo: Meir Cohen)

It is said that the corona mainly accelerated processes.

The transition of work from home happened in one fell swoop, in a boom.

I never stop thinking about business owners who make a living from feeding hundreds of mouths and now have to find a way to survive.

Sometimes it even feels to me like a Walt conspiracy, which until a year ago was something that was heard about in some office buildings in Tel Aviv and today has become the app that everyone owes on the phone.

I admit: if I see at the traffic light a motorcycle of ZAKA and a motorcycle of Walt, I have not yet decided which of them will pave the way. That of Walt still saves lives somehow.



Oh, and the children, how I forgot. Longing for lice. But I still do not send Dad and Mom to isolation. I would never believe I would write this, but there is even a longing for parent meetings. Real. Such as sitting in front of the teacher. Not zooming.

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A little escapism

And it's amazing how it all happened so fast, so extreme.

And we here are used to the extreme.

Extreme heat wave, extreme cold wave (19 degrees, come on) and even the mood here is extreme as always.

After the first wave we were all inflated with pride, screaming into the world, hello, idiots, you will learn.

The Jewish people, nice to meet.

Israelis, with obedience.

You and Corona will die, we have advanced.

Two months later and again in an extreme transition to "what an idiotic people, what leaders, we are irresponsible, do not listen, we think it will not happen. We deserve it."

The next closure is also in our favor, all entirely Israeli.

Unclear instructions, one big confusion.

Start up nation?

Are you sure?



And who would have believed, a peace agreement was signed here with two important Arab countries, and it moved most of us less than the grand finale of Survival, yes they sold the game, did not sell the game.

And maybe that's good.

A little escapism will not hurt anyone (well, not quite a bit. 70 episodes stretched over two waves of Corona).



So on Rosh Hashanah this time I will stay at home in Ramat Gan with the children, without a synagogue.

The blessing of earning a living in Hatzor will probably be won by someone else.

Come on, Pargan.

Wait, maybe you can find some combina- tion and buy the blessing in Zoom?

Sounds delusional?

No, because everything that happened this year sounds realistic.

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