"Photograph God: Creating a Spiritual Blog of Your Life" is a book by Mel Alexenberg that explores links between smartphones, selfies, social media, and spirituality. It develops tools for creatively photographing God as divine light reflected from every facet of life. It teaches how to weave these photos of God into a blog that draws on the wisdom of kabbalah in a networked world to craft a vibrant dialogue between the blogger’s story and the biblical narrative.
11 July 2006
Splendor/Hod as the Echo of a Kiss
Yael Kenan sees hod as the glorious feeling of young lovers kissing. She photographed the shadow of the event to reveal the link between the Hebrew word hod (splendor) and hed (echo). Yael perceives the shadow as a visual equivalent of an echo in sound.
02 July 2006
Teaching/Learning as Foundation/Yesod
Michal Hadari photographed a father learning Torah with his son. He is building a foundation for successfully transmitting Jewish values from generation to generation assuring a splendid future. The biblical injunction “to diligently teach your children” forms a central part of the daily liturgy. Foundation/yesod integrates the attributes of success/continuity/eternity/netzach with splendor/hod.
Avian Splendor/Hod
Hesed on Her Wedding Day
Success from a Lizard's Viewpoint
01 July 2006
Netzach as Continuity
Merav Razon sees the birth of a child in the modern State of Israel as an expression of netzach. It is a divine event attesting to the continuity of the Jewish People despite millennia of bitter exile. The prophet Isaiah links the words “from generation to generation for all eternity (l’netzach netzachim)” to the joyous return to their homeland “coming to Zion with glad song, with eternal gladness.”
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