 Previously on Shemshon Eats Jerusalem She's celebrating Navigot. We're starting with the soups Nadia, please quickly head over to my chair as my lady is beating. Wow Wow Hi Benjou, nice to see you And so today I'm very apprehensive I'm going to be doing a food review which is different from everything else I've been to all these fancy steak restaurants I've been across the road to fancy Mexican food But today we're doing a mitzvah We're helping people We're going to be trying food that is in a soup kitchen for the Hineni And Benjamin Phillip is here Tell us in a nutshell Should I be scared? Should I be worried? This is a whole new outside my comfort zone As we have a so-called unitarian restaurant Where we give food away free to those who are really in need But also those people who are lesser in need But come here for a very reasonable cheap meal for lunch And at the same time they're able to embrace those who are lesser fortunate And by the people coming here Those who are in need Another need, we take away the stigma of a soup kitchen And we make it into a unitarian restaurant That gives the feeling that everybody on the under the way Is connected in one society And that's the beauty of it Here you'll see a millionaire sitting to a beggar And they're sitting on the same table And I think that's the beauty of this place I'm coming in with two principles First of all, I never accept anything free So I'm going to pay for the meal You said you can't pay, but you can give a donation So I'm going to give a 100 shekel donation Since normally 25 shekels amount The second of all is I'm sticking to the truth If I find the schnitzel too oily Or if I find the soup too salty I'm going to have to say that I have no choice, I can't sugarcoat the bitter pill I have to tell the truth Because I'm a food reviewer Should I just back out of all this? I'm scared, I'm stressed Just go across the road Go to Taco Lewis You have the best taco meal for 48 shekels And I'm happy And I've got no stress, no problems Or should I go ahead with this project? What do you think? No, we're doing this I'm scared, it's awkward for me I'm out of my comfort zone What should I do? Walk out or continue? We're doing this We're doing it? Okay You know what? That's the beauty Right Because finally you come across something That makes you doubt That's right Fear That's right And that's the beauty of Inenie Abraham, where are you? Inenie, here I am Ready Prepare to do something that I'm scared of And that's the beauty Here you can actually For everybody who comes here You can push your boundaries It's a midst of a campaign today We're gonna do it Let's cover it Some minutes later Benjamin and Mohammed emerged from the kitchen With a sample of Inenie's finest foodstuffs For Shemshon's evaluation What's the combination that we have in the soup? This for instance an onion soup Oh, that's an onion soup Right, so I'll give you a taste of the onion soup We work with a lot of people from East Europe Who like things thick Okay You're like Yirishamama Eat more, eat more, eat more You're Yirishamama I would say it's decent Not outstanding But we're not here for outstanding cuisine It's got in it definitely chicken soup powder And it's very salty So reasonable But it's hot And it's filling So then that's good With the starter out of the way It was time for Shemshon To try out the rest of the dishes That the venue had prepared For his evaluation I just want you to taste I can say quite nice It's got a bit less than the Balkan flavour to it Even the Greeks probably eat this in the Turkish Shemshon's appetite Showing no signs of slowing down The Australian proceeded to demolish All the other dishes on the menu When we were talking into the food We talked to another patron of the venue Who was happy to talk about how much Heneini service had been of benefit to her It's a wonderful organisation People that you know need to take care of my kid Versus cooking like you know chopping and all that So thank you so much for all this delicious food While Heneini would love to be able to provide meals To everybody requiring them The reality is not so fortunate As manager Benjamin explained to me There is a substantial shortfall Between how many meals that the organisation Is financially capable of producing And how many actually require its services That shortfall results in plenty of needy Jerusalemites going hungry The amount of meals we distribute beside the restaurants 300 meals, 420 meals, 360 meals, 660 meals These are the amounts of meals that we distribute On a daily basis Heneini is supported by donations And staffed by volunteers Those volunteers prepare food for distribution On-site and through other means From the organisation's small premises Located off Shemshon Street in central Jerusalem Oh guys Benjamin explains how the kitchen relies upon industrial machinery In order to take food from the kitchen And prepare it for distribution To Jerusalem's hungry And the beautiful thing that we do is Once the meat or the meat has been cooked Or the food has been cooked If it's not being served directly Then we do it prepacking It goes from the oven Which is this one here Straight into the blaster Now what is the blaster going to do? It brings down directly the food From 180 to 100 degrees to about 4 degrees above zero Preserving vitamins Preserving taste And giving a longer a life-shelk And tomorrow is Thursday With only tomorrow 800 packages For people that have difficulties A lot of elderly people All accounts survivors And they're very happy with these meals Because some people are otherwise without food during Shabbat Here we have three of these ones Take those Just need soap Those are the round packages While it's a price in store Before Shemshon and I head for the road The premises also has a small synagogue on-site As well as a gold-plated elaborate menorah We have a special exhibition about this And there is no And there's no There's no second one like this The extraordinary people making the Hineni program work Include the volunteers responsible for handing out food From the canteen itself We spoke to two of them Who were participating in the MASA program And working at the kitchen several days per week What are your names? Oh, really? My name is Hans Okay, you come as volunteers? Yeah, we're volunteering here through a program Called Artfark Which is like a gap year program Yeah And what organisation do you belong to? Ah, Masaa According to Benjamin Many of the frequent accessors of the service Arrive to the kitchen After receiving a referral Through the Jerusalem Municipality's social services People from the Ulpanokam here Like the people that work at Mizrat Al-Raha People that work, you know In the social welfare departments That want a good meal And they know this place Because they refer people to us I'm very proud of everything you're doing Helping all these needy people And I want people to get involved I want them to donate money I want them to come and help And get involved Can you please give us details How we contact you How do we donate And how do we volunteer? People can always be involved with us Through donations You can go to HeneiniJewsson.org And you can make a donation through PayPal But money is not all we look for We look for rebuilding our community We want people to actually become Part of our organisation By volunteering By opening your heart And be with people Money is important But your heart And your smile And your reaching out to your fellow men Is even more powerful than money Please come Say Heneini to your fellow men And be prepared to help those in need I'm going to give you one more hug Because I really appreciate what you think You know Sim Shon and I may have come to Heneini To check out their food But we ended up experiencing Something much more significant Heneini is located off Shlom Shon Street In downtown Jerusalem To get more videos from me Please consider subscribing To this YouTube channel