Baba Joon (באבא ג'ון)

BABA JOON

See you later. -Bye.

Okay, clutch...

first gear,

clutch...

Go.

Pothole, watch out.

I know how to drive.

Watch the road and look out for potholes.

Stop, stop. Press the clutch and stop.

Stop, stop!

Turn off the engine, turn it off-.

Get out.

Dad, what's wrong?

There's a hole in the hose.

I have to make it shorter.

No, that won't work.

"I've torn more shirts than you“,

I know what I'm doing.

Wtzhak, what's wrong'?

There's a hole in the hose.

You have trouble with your pickup every day,

you can afford to buy a new one.

What for? This one keeps going.

Oh, okay.

Can I take the jerrycan?

Sure, dear, go ahead.

Want me to tow you home

with the tractor?

No, thanks. I'll fix it myself.

I saw you bought new equipment

for the turkey barn.

Yes.

I'm renovating the old one.

Renovating?

I thought you wanted to sell the farm.

Why renovate?

You don't want to sell?

You'll have to ask my boss.

Boss? Who's the boss?

Moti, are we selling?

No.

We aren't selling. -You aren't selling, okay.

In any case,

Wtzhak joon, in Hebrew we say:

"Better a close neighbor

"than a distant brother.“

If you want to sell, I'm right here.

Thank you.

Bye, Moti. All the best.

Dad, I have a solution.

Can't you see I'm fixing it?

Dad.

Moti, I have to replace

the hose.

Just listen, Dad.

Moti, the chicks will die in this heat.

I have a solution, just listen.

Okay, go ahead.

We'll put the jerrycan on the roof,

we'll take a hose

and pump the water into the radiator

until we get home.

Okay, lift it up to the roof.

Okay.

Get up there.

Careful.

Let's go.

We can't go in for the next lwo days.

Why'?

Why'?

Because as soon as a chick opens its eyes

it looks for its mother.

If you go in there,

they'll think you're their mother

but if they grow up together,

they'll regard each other as their mothers.

It's called "imprinting?

Moti, turn that off!

Don't make any noise, it scares the chicks.

I already told you.

Please don't come in here again.

Go to the barn, feed the chicks.

Moti.

What?

Come to Baba.

I'm coming.

How are you, Moti-joon?

Give me a kiss. Come sit next to Baba.

Can you sing a song for Baba?

Sing a nice song for Baba.

My heart yearns to go back to Isfahan

Back to the city that's like half the world

My heart yearns to go back to Isfahan...

Hello, Amir, Blackie.

Come to Baba. Come.

Come here.

Moti.

All this needs to be thrown away.

No, that's got to go.

Come here, Shukri-joon. Look, my dear.

That stays, I'll take it myself.

That stays.

All those have got to go, that and that.

Not this!

Moti, this is not a junkyard,

it's a turkey barn, it has to go!

No!

Get up!

I'm talking to you,

don't behave like this in front of them.

It has to go.

No.

Wtzhak, wait a minute.

Leave it here for him.

I need to clean up here. It has to go.

Listen to me-.

Listen. Weren't you ever a boy?

Didn't you ever play?

The chicks are so cute. -Yes.

But we worked so hard.

When the pickup broke down,

I was so afraid that not even one of them

would make it to the barn.

But Moti really helped you, didn't he'?

Yes.

You push him too hard.

He needs to learn.

But you know

he doesn't like this work.

Neither did I at first,

but I got used to it.

Sorry.

What if he doesn't want to?

I'll force him.

What's the matter? -Nothing.

What did I say'? -Nothing.

"If you bend a branch too hard, it breaks.“

Moti!

Come here!

Come on!

Run, run.

Close the door, close it.

Now when I need him, he's gone.

Moti!

Moti, come here.

You have to learn this work already.

This,

Look.

You grab it from here, okay'?

Like this.

You're hitting me?!

I raised you and fed you, and you hit me?

You hit your turkey?!

Are you crazy?

Moti-joon...

Bastard.

Come here, it's okay.

What happened, ma'am?

Nothing.

Nothing.

Come, work with me.

Come.

Put it in the truck.

Wtzhak, he's just a boy. -Just a boy'?

At his age I took care of the whole barn.

Put it in the truck!

Why are you standing there? Go get it!

Go!

Go help him.

No, he has to learn.

What happened?

Nothing, Baba. -Go to sleep, Baba.

Let's go.

Okay, I'm going-

Good night. -Good night.

Did you catch it?

No.

That's enough.

Ow, Dad. That hurts.

It hurts'? -Yes.

I'm not you.

"If it doesn't hurt, it doesn't get clean.“

That hurts!

Do it softer.

Vacation starts today.

Remember, vacation is very dangerous.

Whenever you have a free moment,

read the Mishnah.

Now each of you come up here

and get a Mishnah to take home.

We'll start here.

Thank you. -Why can't I see your yarmulke'?

You're not ashamed of it, are you'?

No. -Good.

Next.

Let's go, who's next?

Don't dally. Hurry up.

You can start reading now if you like.

Who didn't get a Mishnah'?