Navi
-Summary
Copyright
2022 Akiva Lane
Backstory
David Kahn is deep and creative, but also somewhat shy.
He works with Yossi Stein
for an advertising agency in Manhattan. Yossi is pushing to get their
own clients and make Aliyah, and they compromise to make a 3 month
pilot trip to Israel. When David finds he has Navua and extra powers,
and Rabbi Shimon says that he’s obligated to listen to his
dreams, he proceeds with caution.
David and Yossi are kidnapped, and his wife Chavi says she
very frightened. They
work with their ad clients, and develop a kiruv website. When David
sees demonstrations against him, he is confused, but Rabbi Shimon tells
him he is obligated to proceed. Rabbi Shimon is kidnapped, David uses
his powers to help find Rabbi Shimon, and everyone
is relieved that Rabbi Shimon will survive. The underlying theme is –
what happens to a shy but strong person who has Navua thrust on him,
how
it generates both positive and negative reactions, and how he responds
to
slowly increasing attacks and setbacks.
Scene
1 - Commute to Manhattan, discussion in Central Park
We see David and Yossi going on the LIRR train station from
Woodmere to their office in Manhattan where they work in advertising.
Yossi goes over to David’s desk, and suggests they eat their lunch in
Central Park. In the park, Yossi says, ‘We’ve been talking
for a
long time about moving to Israel, making
Aliyah. I think I
can line up some
clients so we can work remotely from Israel.
No more commute, and we’d be living in the Holy Land.’ David says, 'I'm skeptical
and cautious‘
Scene
2 - After Shabbos meal at David & Chavi Kahn's dining room,
several weeks later
David and Yossi’s families are having a Shabbos meal
together.
After the meal, they discuss Yossi's idea of working from
Israel.
David & Chavi agree to a 3 month pilot trip, without quitting
their
jobs.
Scene
3 - Several weeks later, in Yossi & Esti Stein's living room,
in Ramat Beit Shemesh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDu8ImGqIDc
David called them together to reveal that he's having dreams that
resemble Navua, and shows how he can split the water in glasses, and
predict the stock market. David and Yossi agree they should get
guidance from a Rav, and they decide to go to a Mekubel Talmud Chachim
in Yerushalaim, Rabbi Yoseph Shimon.
Scene
4 - In Rabbi Yoseph Shimon's study
David (with Yossi) demonstrates his new powers, and they discuss what
to do. Rabbi Shimon says David should listen to the voice and
take it seriously. 'I've suspected that at some point
during the Jewish return to Israel, Navua might return. Good
luck.' On the drive home, David says that having a public
personna is outside his comfort zone, but he'll do it.
Scene
5 - In their office in Ramat Beit Shemesh
David
and Yossi are working on their ad accounts, and on their 'Kiruv'
website, and how to make use of the stock market predictions. Then they
stay up on Shavuous night learning to the tune of Gonna get the Torah
tonight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBl4vfs2r7E
Scene
6 - In their office, kidnapped, and driven to an unknown location
Scene
7 - In a room where they have been kidnapped
They've
been learning for 5 days, and David says he's been told 6 additional
numbers in a dream. Yossi realizes it's the combination to
the
lock on their room. They exit to a small backyard surrounded by a tall
brick wall. David picks up a metal bar, and uses it to fly them to the
next town. They borrow a phone from someone they meet in the
street, Yossi calls his wife tells her to have the police meet them and
drive them home, and that he'll explain everything later.
Scene
8 - In the back seat of a Police car driving them home
While
the police drive them home, Yossi says this will be amazing free
publicity for their website. David doesn't want to participate in a
press conference when they arrive home.
Scene
9 - David, Chavi, and their kids at Shabbos meal
Chavi
says that it's so great to have Dovid home, but she was so frightened
while David was gone. They discuss why a Navi's life would be more
dangerous. David says he's also uncomfortable with the negative
reactions their website is generating - with some saying it's a
harbinger of the third Temple, and that's generating a negative
reaction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Sxnd8eNB0
Scene
10 - David and Yossi in their office
They discuss catching up with their work, and the improving stats of
their Kiruv website. They have lots of questions about David's
'mission' in light of the kidnapping, and the different reactions to
the website, and they make an appointment to see Rabbi Shimon again.
Scene
11 - With Rabbi Shimon
In
a crucial scene, they say what's been happening to them, and ask Rabbi
Shimon about it. Rabbi Shimon explains that David's navua is
representative of mystical forces that are being unleashed as we
approach the Geula, and these are both positive and negative forces. He
says that they have to be strong and continue listening to the voice
David is hearing.
Scene
12 - David and Yossi Driving Home
They are discussing what Rabbi Shimon told them, especially that they
have to keep and even keel and appreciate all that Hashem gives us.
The song plays Gotta Take It in Striide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP22g0aVHK4
Scene
13 - In the office, eating lunch
They discuss the progress of the website, and Yossi suggests a dramatic
event - to split the waters in the Tel Aviv shore. David
agrees.
Scene
14 - David has interview with Fox news
David
shows how he can split water, talks about the kidnapping, and about the
positive and negative reactions to the website.
Scene
15 - Tel Aviv port
David
and Yossi and their families arrive in Tel Aviv port, David gets on a
platform, and in front of a very large crowd - splits the water - and
it is televised.
Scene
16 - In the office
They
see that the reaction is off the charts, but there is also a dramatic
increase in negative reactions. They decide to daven with
their
families at the Kotel at dawn. The song plays
Praying at the Break of Day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNqk9P6QsZg
Scene
17 - At the Kotel
David and Yossi and their families are at the Kotel, when they hear a
commotion on the Temple Mount. A reporter with a camera crew recognizes
David, and interviews him. David then lifts himself in the air, and
flies over Har Habayis, and the fighting stops as everyone stares at
him in amazement. He descends and rejoins his family, and
they
leave.
Scene
18 - At the office
David picks up the phone, and after a minute, walks over the Yossi and
says that they both have to listen to this. The voice says
that
they must stop their website and their activity. After the person hangs
up, they call Rabbi Shimon who says they must continue their activiy
and listening to the voice David is hearing.
Scene
19 - At the office
Yossi
answers the phone, and says it is Rabbi Shimon's Yeshiva, who say that Rabbi
Shimon has just been kidnapped. There is a mad search, David uses
his
Navua to get clues, and they finally find Rabbi Shimon in a forest
where he unconscious and has been very badly injured.
Scene
20 - Hospital
David
and Yossi and their wives arrive at the hospital, where a crowd is
praying, along with Rabbi Shimon's wife and married children. After a
while, a doctor says that Rabbi Shimon is being operated on, and then
says the operation was successful, but that he has been very badly
injured. After a wait, they go into Rabbi Shimon's hospital room, where
he is all bandaged, and he talks very quiety. He says that
the
cosmic forces are being stirred up, and perhaps it's best if they lay
low for a while - but that we must be persistent but patient. Rabbi
Shimon falls back to sleep, and they leave the hospital.