“I would read Kaddish about Dad and think about the game of Maccabi Haifa” / Kabbalat Shabbat

What is the connection between this week’s Torah portion and Maccabi Haifa? It turns out quite a bit. At least that’s how China-Krona, who wrote the book “This Week’s Parsha in Green,” thinks. The book accompanies Maccabi Haifa in the 2018/2019 season in the light of this week’s Torah portion. The Israelis have been walking in the desert for 40 years and Marco Belbul is trying to stabilize Maccabi Haifa after the Dutch team. Moshe leads the Bnei Yisrael and Neta Lavi leads the Haifa link. There are a lot of amusing analogies in this book, which are as hard to put down as it is as hard to understand how a person thought of this particular idea. He therefore had to open the new section that would accompany the Saturday games.

How did you get the idea to connect things?

“It’s a long story, but I’ll be brief and say that it all started when I would sit in a synagogue on Saturdays, wait to recite Kaddish about my father, remember the blessing, read this week’s Torah portion and think about Maccabi Haifa’s upcoming game.”

I understand you were close to your father

“Leiba, do not take me to the districts of weeping.”

How do you say political commentators? “Yet…”. It’s hard not to notice your special connection with your father in the book.

“I write to my father and quite a lot about him. He was such a special, cynical character. Someone wrote to me that the book made him subscribe to him and his son. It moved me very much. The book deals quite a lot with this parent-child relationship when in the middle of the football team. A very nice father, son and football team (also mother and daughter by the way). Haifa and grandchildren of Maccabi Haifa fans, so let the chain continue. “

Thank you for that, good things happen when you take down the cynicism. So, this week’s Torah portion and Maccabi Haifa? What is the connection actually?

“The connection between Maccabi Haifa and this week’s Torah portion and the Torah in general can be found in every chapter of the book. Although I am not a religious person, Judaism is a part of me, it is mine like that of any other Jew,” Mati replies. “My identity and definition as a Jew, as an Israeli, and as a Maccabi fan – and as a person who can only be all these things together and nothing else.”

And now, some football. A great Saturday awaits us with six (!) Games, something no one remembers when it happened. Top playoff fights and dessert derby.

When: “Hapoel Beer Sheva without a win since Aboksis left it, Bnei Yehuda without a win since Aboksis coached it. Anyone who bought a double short option on Aboksis on the stock exchange made a lot of money in the last month. This fall in the stock must end Saturday for which side.”

Leiba: “We will continue in the stock market, Aboksis’ share in the crash and what about Roni Levy? Every game without a win shortens his contract next week. At least they did not use the cliché ‘spicy meeting’. Hapoel Beer Sheva is bad, Bnei Yehuda is even worse. “Which means it’s going to end in a 2: 3 draw in the 94th minute.”

When: “The prime minister’s political agenda began this week with a visit to Teddy Stadium, then an ice cream parlor in Ashdod and from there a secret phone call with one of the leaders of the region. There is a situation where it was a conversation with Jackie Ben Zaken in which they closed the details of the double meeting between Ashdod and Betar. Ashdod won the cup, Betar will win the league, and the Likud will win the elections, as always, both in Ashdod and in Jerusalem.

Leiba: “A good theory, but I think it’s the other way around. Betar is better off betting on the trophy because it won’t reach third place if it goes up to the top playoffs. The celebratory tweet of Moshe Celebrating demonstrates this, it is not really relevant to the top playoffs in this fit. She really needs a miracle to get a ticket to Europe, and a huge miracle to win the Bi’a.

When: “You could say that the corona is behind us if for the game between Kfar Saba and Kiryat Shmona it is possible to print 5,000 tickets with the approval of the Ministry of Health.”

Leiba: “5,000 tickets will probably be thrown in the bin and it will be pretty quiet on the pitch. But Izzy Sheretsky’s rage if they prevent me from the top playoff and another possibility to host Maccabi Haifa will be heard everywhere. Only out of fear will KS win and be in the top playoff. “

When: “The results of Maccabi Petah Tikva and Bnei Sakhnin are so random this season and in every game they have an equal chance of winning they will lose or draw. Even if women in the Toto triangle on this game there is a chance that we will fall because the game will be canceled.”

Leiba: “There is one random thing in Maccabi Petah Tikva and that is that Liel worked. The diamond takes Maccabi Petah Tikva to the top playoffs. Such a player deserves top struggles before he flies us abroad.

When: “I will give you a scoop about Maccabi fans. Stop asking them who they are against on Saturday and who is playing against Maccabi Tel Aviv. For a long time now, what has been important is who is refereeing against us and with which referee Maccabi Tel Aviv is playing.”

Leiba: “What does the imitation of Nancy Brands say in Teicher and Zarhovich? But now seriously. Maccabi Haifa will win here as well and rise to first place for a few minutes. Maccabi Netanya looks bad right now, and has a long tradition of nonsense in money time.”

When: “The Tel Aviv derby in the last round of the regular league reminds me of the tracker’s sketch. If Moshe Peretz appears in Bloomfield, you can always transfer the derby to Bloomstein. Six games on Saturday, a good reason to return the songs and goals.”

Leiba: “Derby with an audience. I have chills, and now also with an outside audience then in general. Yellow versus red. I have a hard time breathing. It will be amazing. I definitely see Nir Klinger sweeping with the energies of the audience some 0: 0 from Maccabi Tel Aviv, on the other hand “Patrick van Leven does not know how to lose. Not as an expression, it just does not exist with him.”