"Did you grow up on a nice butterfly?"
The radio interviewer asked singer and actress Esther Rada, who was cast to participate in the new version of the mythological show.
People tend to indulge in content from the past even when they are young, TV series are a well-known nostalgic anchor, and educational television is an unfailing source of them.
"Of course I grew up on a nice butterfly," she confirmed, and I turned to Google to verify the details.
Not that you really have to attend the years when the show aired, when all the episodes are on YouTube anyway, but still there is an emotional difference between a girl who sat with the whole kindergarten in front of a heavy TV, the teacher knocks on both hands to arrange the reception and see Effie Ben Israel clearly, and a girl who completes episodes Retroactive.
Wikipedia has shown that there is a situation in which Sharda is right and she did watch "Butterfly" in real time.
I also wanted to believe her because I saw that she was three years younger than me.
"I do not know anyone who did not grow up on a nice butterfly," the star added, dropping the entrance rug to the garden under her feet.
I wondered to myself what a nice butterfly she meant.
Still, there were some periods.
The marvelous original version and those that came after it, and from copy to copy lost resolution.
"In the 50 years of television, a lot of shows have fallen apart," the interviewer told Rada. "What's the secret of this show?"
I whispered to the interviewee that the secret is the content, but she could not hear when I was in the car and she was in the studio, so her answer wandered to the contact districts between the dolls and the actors, and said something fashionable about the situations that happen on screen and occur in every child at home.
Without holy wrath
Tishrei is a great opportunity to return to the original "nice butterfly", especially to the founding chapter that distills the holidays and proves that you do not have to go to kindergarten or conversion studio to prepare for the holidays, Sukkot or Simchat Torah - just spend half an hour and watch quality content on greeting cards. An apple in honey, the harvest festival and Torah scrolls (don't know? Write on YouTube "Nice butterfly Tishrei holidays" and see salvations).
I do not think they would take an Oriental singer today and let him blow the shofar and get excited about crises and cheering on a state broadcaster for preschoolers; Maybe because they are afraid of a discussion about religion, and if they thought it was not religion - they would have already attached a dome to it. Forty years ago it was obvious that there was a tradition, and that if Nissim caused a "to-to, to-to-do shofar read," it was a beautiful gesture as it was, with curls and no tallit; Ofra Haza as an international singer flowed with Shabi, and they sat and read greeting cards without balancing the cards with greetings to other peoples. It is doubtful that that brilliant plan would not have aroused sacred rage today, when Ofra Weingarten in the symbolic chanting of Sarah is not as powerful as a dun without fear of singing the explicit name. But since then, the secularists have sanctified religion, the religious the aggravation, and most importantly: the simple state work that has overthrown the world of Jewish and independent content.
In the re-production of Nice Butterfly, that of the 90s, they prepared another episode of "Tishrei Holidays" and tried to sanctify related content besides an apple in honey and an apple on a flag. But "Two Families in One Sukkah" no longer plays as exciting as "He Who Wants to Bless Him" who conquered my children and parents of Israel a decade earlier.
Although the contemporary interpretation of Nice Butterfly is as wonderful as the rest of the educational content, it is not as selected and untagged Israeli content as the nice butterfly of the traditional 80s.
For example, in the second chapter on food, chef-celeb Haim Cohen is hosted to make a cake. For a moment they take a break for outdoor photography like a nice butterfly of yesteryear, a little boy in a big bakery hits challah with his dad in the photos which unlike the studios come to the viewer without a glow filter. The family in the video is Mizrahi of the non-shimmering kind, unlike Haim Cohen or the other presenters. The people in the video are not just baking bread, they are making Shabbat challah. The boy there is not just a boy, he has a dome. And he is not just tasting, he is performed and blessed. In a nice butterfly of our childhood even secular people consumed Shabbat challah. And they too could greet the "giver", it was not an item for the religious only. And that's what was magical.
In our childhood, his foreign uncle could sing one of the magical songs about the two grandchildren Elijah and Esther, who return from the garden and enter the yard, and feed in order one cat, one puppy and also a donkey.
I was in a secular kindergarten, we did not have Elijah and Esther.
Not in the family either.
But those are the names they sang about in a nice butterfly.
The grandmother in this story had a handkerchief.
My grandmother did not have one.
In the radius where I grew up, in fact, there was no well-groomed woman.
But on TV they saw one.
Maybe because it's a house with animals and that's how it is in farmhouses, somewhere?
Maybe because half the country had such a grandmother?
I have no idea.
But we did not need VTR on women in headscarves or interviews with children who call them by names from the Bible, to accommodate a different culture. It was just like that.
The child does not just taste, he is performed and blessed.
The new version / Photo: Courtesy here Educational,
Myth for establishment
In an age where a "content man" is the one who tags at the end of each item the topics that appear in it so that a Google search does not miss a marginal dropping name, even programs for kids and teens tend not to lift the glove or the level, which is a shame. Because we have enough pedagogical trash. True Values Growing up generations who could afford to fidget from studies because tradition can also be accepted on television. This is the magic secret of those programs, I would renew it.
In education, they dare to resurrect the myth. The episodes are spectacular to watch, into these molds one has to pour the content thanks to which the myth causes longing even today. The more we see and hear her face Bergstein and Alterman and Datia Ben Dor, and the more we are filled with the simple contents of the Hebrew calendar, the more the flutter will pay off.
