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00:00:00I am the Ironwoman of Israel for the year
00:00:40So what do we know about Yom
00:00:42Kippur?
00:00:46That long before the war, with all the terrible works, the disillusionment
00:00:49and the cycles. It was still a day of atonement,
00:00:53a day of gathering for the soul from all the stains that clung to it during
00:00:56the year. It's the day we received the Torah after the first tablets were broken.
00:01:00It's a day when we remember what is broken and what is whole within
00:01:03us.
00:01:07And the Sages say there were no days as good for Israel as Tu
00:01:10B'Av and Yom Kippur. So on such a day, who even thinks
00:01:13of eating or bathing or wearing light clothes, and what
00:01:17can one really enjoy?
00:01:20It's a day when one wraps oneself in white and touches higher worlds,
00:01:23from Kol Nidre to Neilah, one performs a soul-searching,
00:01:27for we are like clay in the hands of the potter. If He wills,
00:01:30He lengthens, if He wills, He shortens.
00:01:52In Halakha, it is customary to say that there were no better days for Israel than Tu B'Av
00:01:56and Yom Kippur. You should know that this is surprising.
00:02:02What does the holiday of love have to do with the most terrible of the terrible
00:02:05days? But precisely the very deep values of Yom
00:02:08Kippur are what made it a particularly good day.
00:02:12And perhaps the most significant value is soul-searching. A reckoning that can
00:02:16be done in many different and even strange ways.
00:03:02any Rabbi, Michi Yosefi, for whom every day is
00:03:05a kind of Yom Kippur.
00:03:08First of all, remember, this
00:03:16place, I often
00:03:19seclude myself here. Every day you
00:03:22go to the forest to seclude yourself and talk to yourself. Yes, or
00:03:26in the car, or in the car, yes, speak
00:03:28to the Master of the Universe. A person in the environment, yes,
00:03:31the desired practice is an hour every day.
00:03:35Wow, you didn't get carried away. Seclusion is not loneliness.
00:03:38It's actually a state where you isolate yourself from all external
00:03:41stimuli. There is the more central point, which is
00:03:45soul
00:03:45searching.
00:03:50True soul-searching is also to examine where I live
00:03:54in relation to my value system. Yes.
00:03:58Am I faithful to what I defined as worthy,
00:04:02and also in the sense of what I yearn for,
00:04:05what are my longings? And here
00:04:07in the forest, this is my psychologist, this
00:04:10forest.
00:04:14On Yom Kippur, the whole purpose of this
00:04:17day is actually to cleanse the burden of
00:04:21sin, the burden of transgression from us, that is,
00:04:24the burden of the past, when I release the burden of the past, it's
00:04:28the anger.
00:04:30It's the grievances I have against all those who hurt me,
00:04:34it's all those I hurt and didn't bother to acknowledge
00:04:38it, even to myself, even to myself.
00:04:40There are techniques of solitude, genres of
00:04:44solitude. I can talk about the accepted
00:04:48technique, how to organize solitude. First of all, find
00:04:51a place where you feel comfortable. That
00:04:54means if you're in a new environment, wander around a bit until you find
00:04:57the rock there. Inviting you to the... the tree
00:05:00that you like. After that, the first step is to be
00:05:04thankful, gratitude. Gratitude, gratitude. That's
00:05:07always relevant. How nice that I'm here now and it's all good.
00:05:11The second
00:05:16step is to tell what
00:05:20hurts me, if there's something that hurts me, to talk about it but to let
00:05:24it go, meaning not to stay there, to acknowledge that
00:05:27it's there. Uh, desire for what I
00:05:31yearn for, what I aspire to.
00:05:35And the main thing is
00:05:37a review of the last month or the last week. Did
00:05:40I live according to my
00:05:43values? So gratitude,
00:05:45pain, desire. Did
00:05:49I live? Do you want some acronyms to make it easy to remember? Go ahead,
00:05:52recognition.
00:05:55Here's a great rock waiting for you. It hasn't
00:05:58changed much since the six days of creation.
00:07:32in psychology.
00:07:39Psychotherapy sits on the basis
00:07:43of introspection. From that perspective, it's soul-searching, but soul-searching that even
00:07:46seeks
00:07:55stands at the center of Yom
00:07:58Kippur. It's an idea, all in all,
00:08:02quite, quite unusual if you think about it,
00:08:05because what it means is to break out of the routine, to stop
00:08:08and reflect. Now, as human beings, we do
00:08:12that. When do we do it? We usually do it in special
00:08:15situations, either when we are
00:08:18in crisis and we're like, "Hey, how did we get here, what's going on?"
00:08:22Or after we've gone through a difficult
00:08:26period or very big changes,
00:08:28drastic changes, then we need to do it again
00:08:32and look. But ultimately, if we want
00:08:35to get something out of it, even if we reached some conclusion or if some
00:08:39kind of remedy flashed for us.
00:08:43Uh, it requires long-term work,
00:08:46it requires some process. Most things, most
00:08:49changes, are difficult to make except
00:08:52through a process.
00:08:57At first you feel bad and you don't know why, then you already
00:09:01know why, but you still feel bad, it didn't help you much
00:09:04with the feeling, you understood, you need to change, it's okay, you even
00:09:08change, one of the biggest difficulties is to get
00:09:11from the state of understanding
00:09:14to the state of change.
00:09:17The process of apology
00:09:20requires seeing things in a different
00:09:24context. To see it
00:09:26as part of a larger
00:09:29picture. If the moment we open the picture, we see it in
00:09:32a different context, there is a chance that things will take on
00:09:35a meaning that is easier to live with, that is easier
00:09:39to accept. What about Yom Kippur? Do you think it's
00:09:52the great things
00:09:56about it
00:09:59is that it comes with such a great
00:10:03burden of tradition, exactly like Yom Kippur is a bubble within
00:10:07the year, they set apart,
00:10:10they treasure. They neutralize
00:10:14and now you are with
00:10:16yourself
00:10:18and...
00:10:21as much as you can disconnect from the daily routine.
00:10:25which essentially distracts us from this
00:10:58the soul or, if you will, the brain, but this reckoning can
00:11:01also be done in the body. Many Israelis got off the couch at around
00:11:0540 years old, discovered that they were deteriorating or that their wheels
00:11:08were, and started running. On their way to becoming Ironmen, they realized
00:11:12that physical torment could actually help with soul-searching.
00:11:15Ironman is considered the toughest
00:11:25competition there is. How many swim? 3.8 kilometers in an Ironman.
00:11:28And then they ride 180 kilometers. Wow.
00:11:32And then for dessert, they run a marathon. Which is 42 kilometers.
00:11:35In my opinion, sometimes it reminds me a bit
00:11:48of a coming-of-age process in an African tribe. You did something, you have a stamp
00:11:52and you can walk around with the stamp. You know, for many years I thought it was some
00:12:13so much. It also lifts
00:12:16the spirit when you truly rise above things, but many
00:12:19times you also find answers to all sorts of questions that really
00:12:22bother you, as if you...
00:12:27problems I have outside of this sport thing, I
00:12:31think this sport replaces a psychologist, and every time I was a little
00:12:34nervous at home I would tell the girls I'm going for a run, I would come back, if you're
00:12:38calm everything is wonderful, I come back with a smile from ear to ear, why do people even
00:12:41start at all, at age 45 or something, why do they start, but usually what
00:12:45happens with most people in this field is they start by saying, "Okay, I want
00:12:49to do 10 kilometers," and it's fine, then they say, "I
00:12:52want a half marathon, I want to." And slowly
00:12:55but surely, uh, the goals get higher
00:12:58and higher. I actually sat down with my wife and told
00:13:02her, "At 40, I'm giving myself the gift of doing my first
00:13:05Ironman," and that's it, from there I started
00:13:08with about 40 kilos more than I weigh today. There are several reasons
00:13:12why people enter this world, one of them is indeed some crisis or crises
00:13:16they experience in their 30s or more commonly in their 40s, when people have more or
00:13:19less settled down, and suddenly they open their eyes and see that there's
00:13:23some great challenge here, there are things that are
00:13:26related to the competitive drive, there's, uh, sometimes it's
00:13:30communal.
00:13:33If you go into almost any settlement, from a village, kibbutz, moshav,
00:13:37city, you'll see people running. The topic of running in Israel
00:13:41and cycling, started as a trend, today it's already part of a healthy
00:13:44lifestyle. Today in Israel there are about 300,000 people
00:13:48who run, and they run on a regular
00:13:51basis. It's very Israeli, this desire to be the ones who see, to be
00:13:55heroes, maybe also from the army and all the, meaning to do the impossible,
00:13:58and everyone says how much they did and how strong they are and how they're the best and how they're an Ironman and I
00:14:02want to too. Israelis love extremes, beautiful. Israelis very quickly
00:14:06go from running in the neighborhood to doing a marathon.
00:14:09We all struggle and do soul-searching,
00:14:13but there are people who turn this reckoning into a profession.
00:14:17Hi Hagit, I'm not talking about mathematics but about
00:14:21poetry. The poet Hagit Rossman
00:14:25defines her work as a daily ledger of the
00:14:28soul, a ledger typed on a typewriter.
00:14:54language, therefore the master of language has
00:14:56a very, very significant role
00:15:00among people
00:16:26is a delay of the soul. I think that's one of the reasons
00:16:29I need to write. Writing
00:16:32must be daily, because the soul changes
00:16:36so much. And everything is in the soul, the soul is the
00:16:39essence of the matter, if you don't follow your soul, you may
00:16:43get lost and erased. That's why once
00:16:46a year in Judaism there's this, which is a very wise thing, to actually do
00:16:49soul-searching. It's a time when you stop and think about your soul. Now there's
00:16:53a lot of food for thought here, because
00:16:56the soul is always
00:17:47thing in itself, but there are those who take their insights from soul-searching
00:17:51and apply them in a practical way, not only to
00:17:54themselves, but also to their environment. Benny Lipshitz was
00:17:58a chef for years, working with the biggest chefs in the country, but
00:18:01his soul-searching took him to a completely different side of the food
00:18:19as a lost chef, growing vegetables, it just seemed
00:18:23natural to me.
00:18:26This is the vegetable patch of the Kidron food forest. The entire
00:18:29place has been around for six, seven years. What is the goal
00:18:32of this forest? The goal of this forest is
00:18:35actually to be relevant to...
00:18:39If we are in a period of water crisis, food crisis, soils that are being depleted,
00:18:43imagined hunger,
00:18:46and many other problems of environmental
00:18:49pollution, then ecological agriculture is
00:18:52the immediate response. What's wrong with conventional agriculture?
00:18:56There's nothing wrong with conventional agriculture, I'm just
00:18:59joking.
00:19:05Conventional agriculture
00:19:08provides an enormous amount of food, that's
00:19:12true, but the environmental and human
00:19:15cost is enormous. That is,
00:19:19the introduction of very toxic substances into the soil, and the creation of very, very low-quality
00:19:22food, meaning the end result is
00:19:26really something that might look beautiful to the eye,
00:19:30but the value of these vegetables is very low,
00:19:33and their environmental cost is very very high, specifically.
00:19:37Here, every gram that comes out of this field and someone eats it is better than any
00:19:41other gram that comes from convention. This is a non-
00:19:45violent rebellion. This is subverting the system. The system doesn't want
00:19:48you to grow your own food and save on middlemen.
00:19:52And save
00:19:52on taxes.
00:19:58We don't grow vegetables here. I know it looks that way.
00:20:02But actually what we grow here is soil. Meaning, even if I identify
00:20:06some problem with a plant, yes, I don't treat the problem
00:20:09surgically on the plant, but I first go down to the soil and check what's
00:20:13happening there, yes, these are the lives that occur between
00:20:16the soil and the cover, these are the meaningful lives, that's where
00:20:19the digestion happens, the decomposition of organic
00:20:23matter and the feeding of the plants.
00:20:26I was involved in cooking
00:20:29for several good years, and I enjoyed it very much. I don't
00:20:33know what happened, but something happened, and I found
00:20:36myself, uh, unable to continue, unable
00:20:40to go to restaurants anymore, unable to deal with the customers, unable
00:20:44to lose health for food that is
00:20:47not nourishment, it's... food, essentially, it kind of lost proportion,
00:20:51the hedonism in it, essentially, it, I think, got
00:20:54out of control, and if our cultural heroes today are chefs,
00:20:58we are in a very, very difficult situation. You had to
00:21:02fix the foundation. You worked at the end of the path.
00:21:05You wanted to come and work at the beginning. I returned
00:21:08to this root, yes, not to make any
00:21:11correction. I did terrible deeds, almost every possible animal
00:21:15passed under my knife. I didn't see
00:21:18it, I didn't see it.
00:21:22It, meaning I was absorbed in work, yes, for me it's raw
00:21:25material, everything is legitimate. You can't force
00:21:28a person, neither veganism nor any
00:21:32worldview. He needs to... Now you are vegan, I have been vegan for
00:21:35eight years, seven years. Ah, this is
00:21:39the minimum. I won't succeed in changing big things in the world, but here within
00:21:43this small compound, I feel
00:21:45that I am doing something right and good.
00:21:51Environmental soul-searching can be done on land and it can also be done
00:21:54in the sea, when an industrial designer, who is also an avid
00:21:57diver, saw with his own eyes the corals in the Eilat Bay going
00:22:01and being destroyed, he decided to enlist science and art
00:22:04to give back to nature a little of what
00:22:33magnetic pull, and much of our future is buried there. In my opinion, the next decade
00:22:37will be about this place and this
00:22:39resource.
00:22:42The beauty that exists underwater is indescribable. On the other
00:22:45hand, the pain one feels when seeing destruction
00:22:49in coral. Trash. And we are doers here, as you can see. You
00:22:53got your hands dirty in a good way. We have an ethos here of blue
00:22:56collar, and we're dealing here with artificial
00:22:59reefs.
00:23:09Why do we need an artificial reef? What's wrong with a natural reef? It could be
00:23:12that this is a type of artificial environment
00:23:16where the speed at which it can be established and the solution it can provide
00:23:20are completely different than something
00:23:23natural.
00:23:27The printer now enters a sequence of
00:23:30printing operations, it is actually one of the largest
00:23:33of its kind, it was purchased for this research
00:23:36actually, and was built here, precisely for
00:23:40this purpose, and this is how we will print an artificial
00:23:44coral that will then settle in its new home
00:23:47in Eilat.
00:23:57What's happening in the water? A few weeks ago, we installed
00:24:00a pole several meters long, covered with many, many such models
00:24:04of various sizes with all sorts of intermediate
00:24:06chains. We put it there, we put
00:24:08signs. What did I get an update from A.S.A.? Update,
00:24:12right now? No, still no breaks, bro. When we arrived, we saw two
00:24:16fish pecking at the facilities, there are already quite a lot.
00:24:20The number of fish increased, the number of species did not. Photos will be uploaded to
00:24:35to regularize the chaos, on the one
00:24:38hand, on the other hand, to take into account parameters, benefits
00:24:41and complexities that are precisely targeted at precise
00:24:44creatures, according to our measurements and observations,
00:24:48big fish, fish. Isn't
00:24:54it a bit cheeky to invent something that's even better than coral?
00:24:57Cheeky, I, I think it's perhaps even cheekier to simply
00:25:01copy
00:25:02nature.
00:25:06Don't you have a very, very personal thing where it hurts you about these corals and you want to do
00:25:10something for them? I would even call it environmental soul-searching. They
00:25:14say "enough of hinting to the wise," they don't use the second part of the saying
00:25:17much, you know it, don't you? "To the wise with a hint, and to the fool
00:25:20with a punch." To the wise, a hint is enough, to the fool, a punch.
00:25:24We are doing
00:25:28and taking everything we know how to do into this place
00:25:31of improving, changing, fixing, and it is done, as
00:25:35it were, with reverence, not with arrogance and not out of the thought
00:25:39that we know how to do everything, but truly out of curiosity
00:25:42and a sincere desire to do
00:26:18Hello to you, and good morning, it's 11 o'clock. We have the news
00:26:21update, heightened readiness of the IDF for Yom
00:26:24Kippur. A military source told Kan News that this year's preparations
00:26:27are more extensive than last year's, and he emphasized
00:26:31the defense along the borders and within the cities throughout
00:26:34the country. IDF forces in the various sectors were significantly
00:26:37reinforced, and even units in training were put on
00:26:40alert. The headquarters decided in advance which forces
00:26:43would be activated in each of the possible scenarios,
00:26:46including police forces that would be subordinated to the IDF if
00:26:50necessary. Even though there is no specific warning, the military source
00:26:53told our reporter Carmel Menashe, that the IDF is preparing
00:26:57for a surprise on Yom Kippur.