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This painting is part of a series of visual midrash (sacred commentary) on the first Book of the Bible, Bereshit | Genesis.
Abstract art with a dark circular center, surrounded by orange, yellow, blue, and green gradient swirls.
“The children of Abraham, / bowing their heads / to bury the past and join hands in grief.”
Vast desert landscape with rocky cliffs and distant hazy horizon under a pale sky.
This short poem is inspired by the process of creation as told in Bereshit.
the sky and sea meet, birds flying in the sky
This powerful poem takes us into Sarah’s inner world.
a woman in shadow across the sand
“Abraham sat all night with the body of his beloved that he bathed tenderly…”
a cave in Israel

Reflections on Elul, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur

dark clouds against a dark blue sky obscure a bright sun

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