Art as a means for awakening desire for truth
True art is based on faith in man’s intrinsic desire for truth, embedded deep in the person. His overt personality is not directed by this drive, nevertheless, this desire can be awakened, nurtured and brought to prominence. Art holds the possibility of awakening this buried desire for it can reach into the depths of […]
Piercing cry from the depths of darkness
“Man prepares his heart and Hashem gives him a language to speak in” (see Proverbs 16:1). The shape of one’s life is formed and characterized by the language in which he speaks. One’s speech reveals his thoughts, one’s thoughts are where a person resides, his home, and therefore his speech is a picture of his […]
Is it possible to consider the making of art a proper Jewish pastime?
Art-making, in it’s most positive light, seems to derive from an inner compulsion to picture, to bring into focus, and to establish in the world, that which is searched out by the mind and heart to know; to reveal what was previously unrevealed, to give form to that which was previously not seen; to bring […]
Blessed (is He), Life of all the Worlds
admission: asleep. Asleep. Some things are definitely in the way that are keeping me in this sleep for if I were awake to the fact… the only real fact that exists; “Life of all the Worlds, blessed is He”; if I were awake to this…I wouldn’t be acting the way I am…. Who is going […]
Flowing River the Source of Wisdom
If we don’t realize we must consider deeply until we understand that our entire well-being is dependent upon our connection to the true tzadikim. Our connection to the tzaddik is dependent on our connection to Hashem and our connection to Hashem is dependent on our connection to the Tzaddik. For the tzaddik directs, guides, leads […]
Images in the subconscious and in the world
If one looks at any abstract pattern, for example a rock or a stone wall or a wall of marble and he lets his gaze settle slowly upon what his eye will find to settle upon; if he has trained his mind to become aware of the pictures that are formed naturally and continually […]