Out of the fire and into the fire. Moving. Emergency change of flat. Left without things and warm food, and suddenly made new friends. Don’t have a hundred things, have three neighbors. And now I have a stove, a microwave, a huge table and four computer chairs. I’m sitting on the balcony, it’s sunny, +25C. Something buzzes in one ear or the other. They are flying.
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No, I am not being kicked out of Israel.
The fact is that, as a new Israeli citizen, I initially had a darkon (foreign passport) for a year. To obtain a 5-year passport, you need to have a year pass from receiving citizenship (and be in Israel 75% of the time).
I went to exchange the first dakon for the second. It’s great that it’s free, because… is considered an extension. The passport will be ready within 6 weeks, and it will be delivered by courier to my home. The old passport was canceled by cutting off the corners.
Now if anyone asks about my business – I’ll just send this photo:
Fowl. Good cuisine
I’m doing okay personally, I’m in Israel. I moved. Israel was attacked from Gaza. The war started. I was looking at tickets to Moscow a couple days before and they were cheap. I thought I’d go. But then the tickets went up to 150,000, and I changed my mind a bit. In fact, there the story was more complicated – as we decided to urgently move from the border to a safer place. But the fact remains, I went from Special War Operation in Russia to the war in Israel. And there are rockets flying. And I was running away from them to a neighbor’s bomb shelter.
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“I was a victim of geopolitics and had to leave everything behind to move to a new country with a small backpack” – sounds depressingly sad, doesn’t it? On the other hand, “how interesting it is that motivated by external circumstances I packed up my documents and came to live in a cool new place” sounds like a real adventure. It’s just a description of the same event in my life, but “with a different sauce”. That’s the fun of it – how you describe to yourself what happens to you is how it is perceived.
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I came across a book with the promising title “Film Theory”. I opened it, thinking that it was a textbook for film directors. And I read: “in this book we will talk about classic black-and-white cinema, and although there are already some films in colour, but…”. And I was like, stop, what year is this edition? It turned out that the early 60’s, when the film “I’m walking across Moscow” came out and it was black and white. Can you believe it? A monograph on cinema from those past times when they made films without colour!
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Everyone likes to philosophise, asking what is the meaning of life and where are the limits of knowledge? But few people understand what philosophy is – a science or not a science? A way of thinking or a form of cognition of the world. Most of my knowledge of philosophy came from my philosophy of science course in graduate school, and back then it was the only day of the week when I thought about something distant and “abstruse”. The rest of the days flew by with work, repairs, and plans for the future.
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I read Cavell on film, a book by a philosopher who put cinema at the center of his interests. From this rare book I wrote out in simple words the main ideas that wittily and well describe the essence of video art. I have transposed all the ideas to the topic of blogging as I am interested in it.
1) Things and their projections in a movie are meta-objects. An object in life does not equal a filmed object. I am the character in the video, not literally me. In the video it is already her (not me).
Fate plays out in a strange way – it takes me to one unexpected place and then another. And now I find myself in a very unusual apartment on the sublet, where an artist and a scientist lives. We met by chance a couple days before our last move. He went to Europe on business, and left the apartment in our care, along with flowers and books. You can tell a person’s hobbies and interests from his library, and literally every book here is something interesting.
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When I was a child, I had a Barbie and Ken doll, they lived in a big pink house with a swimming pool and a terrace. Each person played Barbie in their own way: someone played out love scenes, someone changed the dolls into different dresses, cut their hair, and someone taught them to swim in the bathtub. I had one favorite game that very clearly defines my psychotype: my dolls climbed on the piano.
The point of the game was that Barbie and Ken would end up on the floor at the foot of a mountain – that mountain was my wooden piano. They had a goal – to conquer the top and climb to the very top, where there was usually a metronome and notes. The two puppets were a team, it was difficult for them to move to the top and they could only conquer the levels together, helping each other. It was impossible to climb the piano alone.
Israel is an amazing country. Small, cosy, diverse – there is snow and desert, the lowest point on land (the shore of the Dead Sea) and mountains where even in summer a cool wind blows.
Living in Israel as a repatriate is great happiness and a sea of adventure. If you are a descendant of a Jewish woman, you can get Israeli citizenship and 40+ benefits upon arrival!
You know what the weirdest thing is — 9 months in Israel is like half a lifetime in terms of intensity, I was moving to a new city, a new place to live every week. The traffic, the road, the new neighbours. I’ll be processing the impressions for years! But some things have already settled in the asset.
Do you ever get the feeling that there is not enough useful information, like an intellectual hunger – you want to watch, listen, read something, but as if there is nothing. You start looking through YouTube for intelectual and interesting content, but it’s either boring or tedious. And I want it to be interesting, but also fun. To like the author, or to feel the benefit from “eating”. In social networks, except for YouTube, it is too difficult to find something like that, so you have to flip through the offered videos, and again you come across familiar authors, who have almost all listened to.
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You’re right that I look better in Israel – my skin is glowing and refreshed. What do I do for that? My self-care is very simple and available to everyone, I don’t use any expensive products or fancy rejuvenation procedures. What I do every day – it’s just called “healthy lifestyle”. And in Israel, I have become even healthier because of the mountainous terrain, a lot of sun and fruits.
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How is it that I lived in Russia and now live in Israel? I see questions from viewers: “Are you Jewish?”, “Why Israel?”, “When are you coming back to Russia?” – and this prompted me to write this post to explain what I am doing in Israel and how I got here. To begin with, I am not a religious person, at all. So there is no background of pilgrimage or anything like that. I came as a repatriate according to the “Law of Return,” which was passed in Israel in 1950.
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In Israel, everything is complicated and simple at the same time – Schrodinger’s cat dualism.
On the one hand you have all your documents and you are technically a local. On the other hand, you have changed your apartment in Moscow, with things and design that you like, for a rented little box for $700 in the village, and for six months you can’t get used to the prices in the store (everything is terribly expensive!).
It is very difficult to find decent housing for an adequate price Renting an apartment is a real challenge (a bonded contract for a year, checks, guarantees, etc.) In short-term rentals, you have to move all the time and look for new rental options
We’ve been together for 18+ years, we’ve been together 24/7 for the last 10 years – doing things together, working from home, walking and relaxing, spending all our days and nights together.
Psychologists like to say that being too close in a relationship is bad. Everyone should remain an individual, have themselves separate from the other, have their own friends, their own mobile phone, you can’t connect and be one “we”. As if this is bad for your relationship, you will lose passion and love. And there might be fatigue and a desire for novelty.
I can tell you from experience – it’s all nonsense! It seems to me that people repeat after each other these mantras about “co-dependent relationships” and other mergers as it’s so fashionable these days. And they just don’t manage to be close together without pissing each other off. That’s why theories about “separation”and other tricks are made up.
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