Topic Tags: torah

“The hidden sparks / That are released / When I dare / To listen To dance / in your arms”

This painting is part of a series of visual midrash (sacred commentary) on the first Book of the Bible, Bereshit | Genesis.

“We are each a Torah / to be embraced and celebrated…”

“Sing and dance in exaltation, / gift of wisdom; truths conferred.”

“those who dance as they hold as they dance through all life; those who reach up from a wheelchair; out from a walker; or wobbling, out from a cane.”

Only Torah, our tradition teaches, is sweeter than honey, // its aroma and taste more desirable than gold, // its devarim eternal

“What if we read our Torah with open eyes and see that its truths are written on the skins of our fellow creatures…”

“Thus stand we now as one in grace, Heirs to this sacred, holy place…”

“Gripped by the desire to decode what we cannot know, we examine each word…”