Market Friday - Sukkot 2022 in Jerusalem Mahane Yehuda market.
Here we are. In Jerusalem again. And I planned to be here exactly this day - the Sukkot is entering in the evening (as all Jewish holidays start in the evening). Packed like hell, dirty and gritty, noisy and hurrying, smelly and dirty again, full of life and the feeling of the upcoming holiday days.
This day I visited the Mea Shearim's neighborhood. I walked in the narrow street of the Ultra-Orthodox community, looked at the people scurrying hither and thither, took some nice images, and even had a few conversations. The high-tension area was not too crowded this time. I will show you the images I photographed there in my next post.
After this, I visited the small Sukkot decorations market, very colorful and noisy even more than the big market. I will show you the vibes of this market later as well.
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I'm in love with the gritty, very real street photos you take. People scurrying for sure, to get it all done before the beginning of Sukkot. Did they build the structure yet or will they not have one?
Living life in the anonymous is interesting, having to guess what/who they are and what they are doing. All normal life moving things, shopping, and holding money in one's mouth. So sanitary and yet, we don't even think when we do those things or think about how it looks. The lady taking a selfie... Gosh, is that what I look like? I guess I might.
I like the last shot of those two young boys. What runs through their brain, Victor? Do they think they are different? Do you think they care? Is it inbred or learned? My religion was half and half.
The view is great from where I sit! #MarketFriday began as a way to reach out across the globe and learn about different cultures through their markets, especially local markets and farmers markets, and eventually branched out and evolved over time from straight shopping to a cultural affair as it highlights how we differ and then again, how much we are alike. We have become a melting pot of culture, but, it is still the Rituals, Festivals, food, architecture, and even your language/languages that separate us... Along with the fact that these things are normal for us. There are unwritten rules that rule our social behaviors. I see this as allowing for increased tolerance between cultures and nations, and opportunities to come together on an even playing ground. A strong culture can be beneficial to a country as it promotes unity, especially during a crisis, peaceful debate, and open dialogue. I have learned so much about all of you and it has been an amazing experience. I can only hope that learning about each other can help us work together for a peaceful world.
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thank you for taking a look and for the kind words Denise.
I love to see people's life from the side, and these still available original markets are the best place for observation. The interesting moments are endless, just to go slowly and pick them up like mushrooms in the forest. Sure, somebody also photographed me, taking pictures, discussing with someone, having some fast snack of street food, or drinking beer. We are the "predators" and the "victims" at the same time. And there is nothing to do with this - one who knows to take should know to give the equivalent.
You said very beautifully about this ability to interchange and to learn from each other the culture of our countries and continents. The social network just opened the gates of this knowledge.
But... there is another side that exists and unfortunately, these opened gates don't teach us at all.
This week, and actually yesterday evening and night I visited twice the big Haifa annual international film festival - the real celebration of the "movies on the big screens" culture.
I watched already 4 movies, trying to choose something very original when this is possible - 5 cinema halls, working all together 10 12 days and there is a lack of tickets for some movies.
So the last movie I watched last night was "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Edward Berger, German director, and screenwriter. The movie is about WWI - just a few characters from the millions and millions. Just the last episodes of their lives ended in fights, which no one needs them.
It was one of the cruelest and most technological wars, where people learned how to kill each other in masses. The frames are scary even though they don't express all the horror of what was happening.
What did the entire world learn from this? Literally, nothing, because just in less than 20 years people started killing each other even more aggressively in WWII. And what people learned after the end of WWII. Literally, nothing, because they started Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Chechnia, Serbia, Levanon, Gaza, Syria, and some smaller and not called WWX "local" wars. And right now the mass killing is continuing in Russia and Ukraine.
I just see on Twitter and other Social sources, what many Russians are saying in their comments. The hatred for the west is at the TOP level and I'm sure that many of these commenters used the same social networks, "learned" your, my, and other members' culture, and got an absolutely different lesson from this.