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'Till the Lights Go Out
The fifteen-passenger van bounces down Broadway. I’m up front with our driver and directly in back of me’s a trio of South Africans. We’re done with the chocolate chip cookies left over from a luncheon at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, and have swung by Ground Zero. Twice. Talk turns to home. Johannesburg is beset with an electricity crisis... To read on, click here. |
The Process of Painting a Life
Art is often describes as a form of self-expression, yet art can also transcend the self. OK, to tell the whole truth, art can also be a search for G-D> If you had pressed me on the subject ten years ago, I would have simply said I was painting about that which I could not name. Then, one warm summer evening, I landed in a class on a book called Tanya....To read on, click here. |
Queen Esther and the Kabbala of Time
The states over which Achashverosh ruled spanned from Hodu until Kush, from India to Ethiopia…His empire encompassed one hundred and twenty seven states. The number corresponds to the life span of our matriarch Sarah. In fact the Midrash comments that Esther merited to rule over them as a result of the years of Sarah’s life. A story is related about Rabbi Akiva which draws on and explains this correlation....To read on, click here. |
The Sanctuary as Art
A couple of years ago, I conducted an interview with Mel Alexenberg, then Professor and Chairman of Fine Arts at the Pratt Institute. He traced archetypes of creative expression back to the book of Genesis, meandering past the Giving of the Torah and deep into the Sanctuary whose construction we read of in this week’s Torah portion....To read on, click here. |
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