My great-grandmother got married through a matchmaking. This was the practice in traditional Jewish families in Eastern Europe. I think that if “Wedding at First Sight” continues to produce moments of magic for us as it manages to produce recently, thanks to fascinating couples, excellent psychologists and talented producers and editors, it will not be long before more and more people want to marry the same method. The modern.
When I asked my grandmother how she was, how her mother, my great-grandmother, felt on the eve of her wedding when she first met the groom, she replied in her Yiddish dialect: “Well, what did you want her to feel? “And as long as a shoelace, with a black beard like charcoal and the first thing she thought: ‘Oh bless you.’ But then they got married and had children and started a beautiful family.”
“And what about love”? I insisted. And she replied: Then came also love and caring and concern for each other and that’s it. What more do you need?
It may not sound particularly romantic, but in “Wedding at First Sight,” every new couple that appears on screen recently provides us with romantic moments that are read about only in stories belonging to the “romantic affair” genre.
Yesterday another couple joined the matchmaking couple who were so excited that I had to open a new tissue pack. Both are from Jerusalem, and yesterday I realized what the same Jerusalem quality is that is talked about when describing people who were born and raised in the most special city in the world. Edith is charming, sensitive, and modest. Raphael is exactly as one of his friends defined him: an officer and a gentleman. Not to mention that under the slightly rough cover he puts on himself, there is a sea of emotions and delicacy that threatens to erupt at any moment. I even recognized a few drops of choked and stuffy tears in his eyes, during the ceremony. And did you see how as soon as he appeared, he first approached the bride’s mother and hugged her warmly? Or offered to bring her water to see how excited she was? Undoubtedly, a man has a strong longing for a warm family, as he described when he introduced himself and his needs.
Start with the right foot – now they are lame
And speaking of delicacy and sensitivity, on the forefront of May and Moses they were not expressed yesterday. This affair that started on the right foot, and only heralded favors and an eternal idyll between the two, begins to stutter and limp, and really not because of May.
I’m not happy to say I told you. I told you in an earlier column that I really did not like that Shamai kept trying to please Moshe, while he did not bother to move our buttocks, get up and please her back. And yesterday, in the shopping scene at the housewares store, he once again proved that he is first and foremost in love with himself, before he opens his heart to love someone else.
While nice of him to have finally been aware of his shortcomings and realized he had shown a complete lack of consideration in May, and her need to buy things to her liking, but by and large, I suspect he’s quite egocentric. And also too rational, calculated and considerate.
I also suspect he is no small miser. A feature not really popular with women. You only have three forks at home and you grumble an appraiser wants to buy new cutlery? Or she wants a flower vase and you grumble again that you have no room at home for another accessory? Say, are you not ashamed?
Did you notice that in the conversation that took place between the couple in the store, the word “to”, starred in Moshe’s jargon? May wanted to buy a certain product and Moshe immediately jumped in: “Don’t buy it, you don’t have to.” May wanted to buy another product, and again: “No no, do not buy. No, no, no! Do not do this or that. Like, what closes? Only you exist?
May read my thoughts shouting at her, “Run away, as long as your soul is in you,” and she ran away, to the sound of my applause.
The production, in its wettest dreams, could not have wished for a more successful scene than May’s escape scene, a television scene, exciting and dramatic, more than any honeymoon in the Caribbean or other islands.
At the same time, it is possible that within him are hidden in Moses also other sensitivities besides focusing only on himself, because the fact that he is self-aware and willing to learn how to manipulate qualities that are important to maintain a healthy relationship. But when he makes sure to point out to May, over a cup of coffee, as he did in the previous episode and also yesterday, his “good” and “he is good”, that is, that he is good with her, it is really not flattering or encouraging, because he forgot to ask if she is good too, And if she, too, is “well.” A small detail but so significant.
In short, it’s going to be smoother and more interesting, than all the previous seasons, and I’m looking forward to the next episode.