Tetragrammaton

Tetragrammaton I was born in Israel. I moved 13 times.

By moving from place to place, I always found myself in a new community.

Being the new kid in every community means you have no friends on the first day.

I would always be attracted to the other kids who had no friends.

And my goal in life is to be to make the uncool kids cool.

It would take about a few months, then we would all become friends,

and we would move to the next destination.

And I did that literally 13 times in my childhood.

The place I lived the most was in a kibbutz. For people who don't know what the kibbutz

is, there used to be hundreds of them in Israel. It was a version of a community where every person

had a different job, but everybody earned the same amount of money and had access to the same

amount of resources. Everybody had the same house. I happened to have just gotten a chance to go to the house I lived in the kibbutz. I didn't remember how small it was. The entire house, bedroom, kitchen, and children's room. My sister and I shared a room was 450 square feet, and I don't fit in the door. So I was shorter there, but when I went to kibbutz, I was like, oh wow, the door doesn't fit. Your sister, older or younger? It's a younger sister, three years younger. And what was your relationship like? So growing up separate from moving from place to place, which means we always had to be very close. When I was about eight, my parents got a divorce. And after my parents got a divorce, we moved to the U.S. My parents are both doctors.

And we moved to the U.S. for two years because my mother had to fellow. She's an oncologist.

She followed in Indiana, Indianapolis. So I was a Hoosier for two years. I went to Pacers games

in Indy 500. And that's where I learned how to speak English because I'm very dyslexic.

And for very dyslexic people, one of the toughest things is a new language. And I remember all those people said, how dyslexic are you? And I would say when we moved to Indiana, I asked my mom, when I went to school the first day, I said, what I'm going to do? How am I going to order food? There's a cafeteria. I don't know any words in English. She said, say peanut butter and gel. So I learned peanut butter and jelly. And for the next two months, every day I wait in line and everybody gets there and they order the hamburgers and their fries and their chicken nuggets. And all I can say is peanut butter and jelly. And one day after two months, I was like, I can't eat one more peanut butter and jelly. And I had the carriage and I said the word hot dog. And from there, I started learning. And that was the two years. So at this stage, my parents are divorced. It's my mom, my sister and I, we're living alone in the US. And as we go back to Israel, my mother wanted us to have a special experience. And that's how we got to the kibbutz. And in the kibbutz, because everybody has a job, she was the doctor at night. And in return, for her being the doctor at night, we got a place to live. So she worked the whole day in the hospital, and then at night she was a doctor. The reason the kibbutz for me

so relevant caused my life with a lot of ups and downs and a lot of different challenges. The first

time that I felt safe was in that community. My mother, many years after, was diagnosed as bipolar

and growing up, the patients were always the important. And I think it taught me a lot

because she was too careful of all of her patients so beautifully. When she would come home, there was

less patience for us. And there would be a lot of fighting and screaming and hitting and things flying.

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