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Dealing with Pain: Spoken Word Workshop for Bereaved Brothers Israel today

2021-04-13T13:05:33.214Z


Meital Toledano (48) lost her brother in Gaza • Amit Kamil (48) lost his brother in Lebanon • The pain became words in a special workshop | in what


Nine bereaved brothers and sisters went through the workshop last year that ended with an exciting show yesterday. "" I feel something has come loose in me, "says Meital Toledano, 48, who lost her brother in Gaza. ) Who lost his brother in Lebanon

  • Amit Kamil and Meital Toledano do Spoken Word on stage

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    Gidi Eigenstein

Nine bereaved brothers and sisters have participated in an intriguing project in the past year: a Spoken Word workshop (spoken poetry) that will allow them to deal with bereavement.

On Tuesday evening, the workshop ended with a show in which the participants took the stage one by one and presented their texts. 



The initiative was from the "Our Brothers" organization, an association for brothers and sisters in the Israeli bereaved family.

The workshop was led by Spoken Word artist Yoav Talmore, director of the Poetry Slam Israel Workshops Division.

Two of the participants in the workshop were Meital Toledano (48) from Ofra, who lost her brother, Lt. Pinchas (Pini) Cohen, who was killed during an operation in the Gaza Strip in 2002;

And Amit Kamil (48) from Ramla, who lost his brother Oren Kamil, who was killed in an ambush in Lebanon in 1987. 



The late Lieutenant Pinchas (Pini) Cohen, an officer in the Givati ​​Brigade's patrol company, was killed by our forces during an exchange of gunfire in the Khan Yunis area in March 2002. And left behind a wife, parents, three sisters and two brothers. 

"I'm the eldest, he was the third child," Toledano says.

A little less than six years separated us.

We had a good relationship, I loved it very much.

To this day we hear from his friends how much he has influenced their lives.

He was a very real man, a man who pursues justice, very much loved people, treated everyone equally.

On the one hand he was very much in the segment of laughs and nonsense, and on the other hand he was very attentive and helpful to anyone who needed it. 



"When they sent me information about the Spoken Word workshop, I felt I had a desire to express myself, even though I was not used to writing. I said to myself 'come on, this is an opportunity'. I was very surprised by the process I went through there. I was a little stressed and excited. With Spoken Word and so on. I do not know if I have an answer yet, but I will probably continue to write. Before that I was never in a Spoken Word show but I saw a lot of shows like that on YouTube and I was always turned on by this art form. "I feel something came out of me. It was very powerful. There were not easy sections that the work on the text flooded them with." 



"Wow, the things that came out"



Oren Kamil served in the Givati ​​Brigade.

In September 1987, he fell in battle in Lebanon during a pursuit of terrorists.

Oren was killed by a bullet while trying to rescue his injured commander.

He was 19 at the time of his death. 

Amit Kamil is his younger brother.

The family went through a terrible tragedy when eight years later Oren and Amit's brother, Yariv, who was 35, committed suicide. Amit remained the only brother, until his parents adopted a foster child.

"We were three brothers: the eldest Oren, an opponent after him and I the third," says Amit.

"I and Oren separated for four years. We had a very good relationship. He would take me and an opponent to the sea and to all sorts of places. 



" He was a man with a huge soul.

Really loved animals.

He had a constant smile smeared across his face.

An opponent took the death of Oren very hard.

A few years before he committed suicide he went through a spiritual workshop that triggered something there, and he had a psychotic attack as a result.

We took him to a psychiatrist for treatment, he was diagnosed with manic depression and eventually committed suicide. 



"I knew Spoken Word from YouTube clips I would occasionally see, but I didn't really know what it was. When I was offered the workshop through the association - I decided to give it a try. The things that came out there - wow. The final show was amazing, very exciting. These are songs by a 15-year-old boy, in rhymes, trying to flatter. The Spoken Word is much more kicking, powerful, giving the opportunity to tell a story but also to put in, to criticize. Including 30 years. " 

Source: israelhayom

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