Berlim

Berlin, July 1945

John Zorn

"Night Thoughts"

Chaim Soutine

"Les Maisons" (1921)

Médio Oriente

"Whose War?: Syria, the West and the Rest" 

(Lennart Meri Conference 2016)

אֵת

"Adam, Eve and The Zohar", Daniel Matt 

Bildad the Shuhite said in reply:

How long will you speak such things?
Your utterances are a mighty wind!
Will God pervert the right?
Will the Almighty pervert justice?
If your sons sinned against Him,
He dispatched them for their transgression.
But if you seek God
And supplicate the Almighty,
If you are blameless and upright,
He will protect you,
And grant well-being to your righteous home.
Though your beginning be small,
In the end you will grow very great.

Ask the generation past,
Study what their fathers have searched out -
For we are of yesterday and know nothing;
Our days on earth are a shadow -
Surely they will teach you and tell you,
Speaking out of their understanding.
Can papyrus thrive without marsh?
Can rushes grow without water?
While still tender, not yet plucked,
They would wither before any other grass,
Such is the fate of all who forget God;
The hope of the impious man comes to naught -
Whose confidence is a thread of gossamer,
Whose trust is a spider's web.
He leans on his house - it will not stand;
He seizes hold of it, but it will not hold.
He stays fresh even in the sun;
His shoots spring up in his garden;
His roots are twined around a heap,
They take hold of a house of stones.
When he is uprooted from his place,
It denies him, [saying,]
"I never saw you."
Such is his happy lot;
And from the earth others will grow.
Surely God does not despise the blameless;
He gives no support to evildoers,
He will yet fill your mouth with laughter,
And your lips with shouts of joy.
Your enemies will be clothed in disgrace;
The tent of the wicked will vanish.

Job 8
(JPS)

Vida

Adult male Spiny Flower Mantis (Threat pose)

Tisha B'Av

Singing at the Kotel 

Nineveh

 

Bronze head of a king, perhaps Sargon of Akkad, from Nineveh (now in Iraq)

 Akkadian period, (c. 2300 BCE) in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad.

Jesus da Nazaré

(1/3)

(2/3)

(3/3)

"How Jesus Became God", Bart Ehrman

Itzhak Perlman

 

"Vi ahin soll ich geyn?" ("Where shall I go?")

Norman Podhoretz

"Reflections of a Jewish Neoconservative"

Benjamim de Tudela

The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela

Vida

A bee on a flower

Farhud

Bagdade (1941)

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis

Oxford Union

Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eyes were undimmed and his vigor unabated.

Deuteronomy, 34:7
(JPS)

Rio Tigre

 

Picturesque homes of wealthy Jews along the Tigris River in North Baghdad, Mesopotamia.

Note the woman in the window and the boat, a "kufas" row boat on the Tigris.

Christine Hayes

"Forms of Jewish Identity: Biology, Covenant and Memory", II

Eddie Rosner

"Bei mir bist du schön", Paris (1938)

Vida

"La Maison Sublime"

 L’École rabbinique de Rouen (XIIe siècle)

Benjamim de Tudela

Benjamin of Tudela in the Sahara (12th-century)

Rav Soloveitchik

"On the Avodah of Yom Kippur"

The Klezmatics

"Romanian Fantasy"

Marianne Ihlen

Greek island of Hydra (1960)

Bagdade

"The Last Jews of Baghdad", CNN (2004)

Vida

Norman Podhoretz

"Conversations with History" (1999)

I believe sometimes.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, "Denkbewegungen"

Histórias

"The Stories We Tell About Ourselves", Melila Hellner Eshed

Egipto

Drawing of Fustat (1906)

Agar

"Hagar in the desert", Marc Chagall (1960)

Judaísmo

Moshe Halbertal (2013)

Vida

Jewelled flower mantis

Shavuot

"A Tale of Two Women", Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Judaism is a non-coincidence with its time, within coincidence: in the radical sense of the term, it is an anachronism, the simultaneous presence of a youth that is attentive to reality and impatient to change it, and an old age that has seen it all and is returning to the origin of things. The desire to conform to one's time is not the supreme imperative for a human, but is already a characteristic expression of modernism itself; it involves renouncing interiority and truth, resigning oneself to death, and, in base souls, being satisfied with jouissance. Monotheism and its moral revelation constitute the concrete fulfillment, beyond all mythology, of the primordial anachronism of the human.

Emmanuel Levinas, "Judaism and the Present", in "The Levinas Reader", pp. 256-257

Rins

John Zorn

 

"Zaphiel"

"Shoah" de Claude Lanzmann

(1/2)

(2/2)

 "Shoah", Claude Lanzmann (1985)

Veneza

"Morning in Venice", J. B. Camille Corot (1834)

Zohar

" Zohar and Kabbalah", Daniel Matt

Stanley Cavell

"Thinking About and Eating Animals: Reflections on Coetzee's "The Lives of Animals"

Vida

 

A lion is fed with frozen food to help him beat the summer heat at the Bioparc zoo in Valencia, Spain

Norman Podhoretz

"Why are Jews Liberals?"

Agar

"Hagar in the wilderness", J.B. Camille Corot (1835)

Leon Kass

"On Bioethics, the Bible, and "Athens and Jerusalem"

Bíblia

"Still Life with Bible", Vincent van Gogh (1885)

Emmanuel Levinas

Theodor Herzl

"Theodor Herzl - Father of the Jewish State" (1960) The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive

Vida

Indicator indicator

Lincoln

"Lincoln and the Jews", Jonathan D. Sarna

Agar

"Abraham dismissing Hagar and Ishmael", Rembrandt (1640)

Serge Gainsbourg

"La Javanaise"

Norman Podhoretz

Nova Iorque

The Woolworth Building nears completion (1912)

Stanley Cavell

"Conversations with History" (2002)

Vida

Seal pups

Ismael

 "Abraham Casting Out Hagar and Ishmael", Guercino (1657)

Bar Kokhba Sextet

"Rahal" 

Christine Hayes

"Forms of Jewish Identity - Biology, Covenant, and Memory"

Babilónia

Ishtar Gate, Babylon, Iraq (1932)

Jorge Mautner

"O Vampiro" (1988)

Império Otomano

"Göke" was the flagship of Kemal Reis

 

Sultan Bayezid II sent Kemal Reis to save the Sephardic Jews of Spain from the Spanish Inquisition in 1492

 and granted them permission to settle in the Ottoman Empire

Vida

Leaf-tailed gecko

Philip Roth

"Unleashed", BBC (2014) 1/2

"Unleashed", BBC (2014) 2/2

Porto

 

Congregants praying at the Kadoorie – Mekor Haim synagogue in Porto, Portugal (2014)

"Arabic Movie" de Eyal Sagui Bizawe e Sara Tsifroni

Trailer

Sefarditas

    "Portrait of a Sephardic Jew", Isidor Kaufmann  (circa 1900)

Avivah Zornberg

"Can Torah Speak to the Modern World?"

Let us raise the candles of the wind
in our darkness.

Avraham ben Yizhak

Vida

A kakapo

Moshe Halbertal

"On Modern Jewish Identities"

Fascismo

"Fascists" (Yale)

"Wiener-Dog" de Todd Solondz

  Trailer

For the error bred in the bone

Of each woman and each man 

Craves what it cannot have,

Not universal love 

But to be loved alone

"September 1, 1939", Auden

Ocidente

"The Left, the Right, and the Future of the West", Daniel Johnson

Nice

Vida

Northern Cardinal

Jorge Mautner

"Maracatu Atômico", Jorge Mautner & Caetano Veloso 

ונפשו קשורה בנפשו

and his soul was knotted with his soul

Genesis 44:30

(JPS)

Clarice Lispector

"Das vantagens de ser bobo" (lido por Aracy Balabanian)

Sinagoga Huqoq

Mosaic showing the parting of the Red Sea (5th century)

David Nirenberg

"History as Prophecy: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam"

Portugal!

Vida

Foxes in Japan

Siglos de siglos y sólo en el presente ocurren los hechos

Jorge Luis Borges
 

Brasil

"Feito Pra Acabar", Zé Miguel Wisnik 

                                                             Quem me diz

                                                             Da estrada que não cabe onde termina
                                                             Da luz que cega quando te ilumina
                                                             Da pergunta que emudece o coração

                                                             Quantas são
                                                             As dores e alegrias de uma vida
                                                             Jogadas na explosão de tantas vidas
                                                             Vezes tudo que não cabe no querer

                                                             Vai saber
                                                             Se olhando bem no rosto do impossível
                                                             O véu, o vento o alvo invisível
                                                             Se desvenda o que nos une ainda assim

                                                             A gente é feito pra acabar

                                                             A gente é feito pra dizer
                                                             Que sim
                                                             A gente é feito pra caber
                                                             No mar
                                                             E isso nunca vai ter fim

Mar Vermelho

Dust storms over the Red Sea

Elias

He cried out to the LORD and said, "O LORD my God, will You bring calamity upon this widow whose guest I am, and let her son die?" Then he stretched out over the child three times, and cried out to the LORD, saying, "O LORD my God, let this child's life return to his body!" The LORD heard Elijah's plea; the child's life returned to his body, and he revived. Elijah picked up the child and brought him down from the upper room into the main room, and gave him to his mother. "See," said Elijah, "your son is alive." And the woman answered Elijah, "Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD is truly in your mouth."

I Kings 17: 20-24

(JPS)

Elie Wiesel

With Oprah Winfrey in Auschwitz 

 

Vida

 

Sperm whales at a large group gathering together, rubbing together to shed skin, interacting and defecating in the Indian Ocean

"Tikkun" de Avishai Sivan

 

Trailer 

Ben-Dror Yemini

 L'Chayim

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

The Second Coming, Yeats

Rute

Avivah Zornberg

Hungria

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

 
Philip Roth
 

Vida

Elie Wiesel ע״ה