tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295294132024-02-08T08:16:12.428+02:00photograph god"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. Mel Alexenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182769814712212162noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29529413.post-51429637790332501572016-05-05T19:00:00.001+03:002016-08-24T10:46:53.195+03:00Book on Smartphones, Social Media and Spirituality for People of All Faiths<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Alexenberg shares in-depth, meaningful insights about encountering God in the
creative process through photography. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using
photography as the vehicle, we are guided, one idea at a time, to an
understanding of what the author means by, ’looking up, looking out, and
looking inward.’”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="color: red;">-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>T. Mandel Chenoweth, Head of the Art
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"capturing" God in photographs and restricting Him to two-dimensional
images - into a mystical exercise as we open our eyes to the Divinity found in
our everyday lives. The book's wonderful synthesis between spirituality and
technology, heaven and earth, is exciting and thought-provoking.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: red;">- Rabbi Chanan Morrison, author of <i>Gold
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<br />Mel Alexenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182769814712212162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29529413.post-21004309969228579732016-03-31T20:27:00.002+03:002016-04-04T20:46:46.715+03:00Stimulates the Sensory Palate<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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that stimulates the sensory palate. Drawing
from the Kabbalah and Hebrew traditions, Dr. Alexenberg shares in-depth, meaningful
insights about encountering God in the creative process through photography. There is noth<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ing superficial about this book.</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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guided, one idea at a time, to an understanding of what the author means by, ’looking
up, looking out, and looking inward.’”<span style="color: red;"> - T. Mandel Chenoweth, Head of the Art Education Department, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></b>Mel Alexenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182769814712212162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29529413.post-6650504621904858732016-01-03T17:56:00.003+02:002016-04-03T20:04:28.653+03:00Thinks Brilliantly Outside the Box <h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>“For those of us
familiar with the diverse and exhilarating work of Mel Alexenberg as an artist,
educator and profound thinker, this latest book offers precisely the four
things we would expect. The narrative thinks brilliantly outside the box. It
synthesizes the realm of the abstruse and transcendent with the realm of the
concrete and immanent. It crisscrosses disciplines, from science and technology
to philosophy and mysticism to art as both historical and creative phenomena.
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with prior knowledge of any or all of the disciplines from which Alexenberg
draws will smile again and again in affirmation, and those entering without
prior knowledge will be thrilled to understand things that they thought might
be beyond them. This is one of those books that other thinkers will wish they
had somehow thought about how to write, and to which readers of diverse sorts
will simply respond by saying: wow!"</b><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">- Dr. Ori Z. Soltes, author of <i>Tradition
and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art and Architecture</i>, Professorial Lecturer, Georgetown University,
former Director, National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC</span></b></span></span></span></span>Mel Alexenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182769814712212162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29529413.post-89325504707887955132015-11-26T16:51:00.002+02:002016-03-17T11:14:38.742+02:00Bring Spirituality into Your Everyday Moments <div class="t pgm1 pgx24 pghc pgy70 pgff3 pgfs3 pgfc0 pgsc1 pgls7 pgws1">
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creativity. His work is an invitation to deepen your spiritual sensibilities as
you extend your imagination.” <span style="color: red;">- Jan Phillips, author of <i>God Is at Eye Level:
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shows the way to the divine via digital imagery and heightened perception of
its presence in the moving face of every person, place, and thing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It reads like a swift and soulful breeze.” <span style="color: red;">-
Dr. Shaun McNiff, author of <i>Trust the Process: An Artist’s Guide to Letting
Go </i>and <i>Art Heals: How Creativity cures the Soul</i>, University
Professor, Lesley University, Cambridge</span></b></span></div>
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simple as photos taken with a smartphone, and multiplied in their resonance by
the Internet - can be a consciousness raising tool" <span style="color: red;">- Peter Samis,
Associate Curator, Interpretation, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>“Thinks brilliantly outside the box. It crisscrosses
disciplines, from science and technology to philosophy and mysticism to art as
both historical and creative phenomena. This is one of those books that other
thinkers will wish they had somehow thought about how to write, and to which
readers of diverse sorts will simply respond by saying: wow!” <span style="color: red;">- Dr. Ori Z.
Soltes, author of <i>Tradition and Transformation</i>, Professorial Lecturer in
Theology and Fine Arts, Georgetown University</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>“There are many parallels in Christian thought and deed that
should allow this excellent book to resonate with many people of faith. He has
succeeded in creating a program for photographers, on a daily basis, to
explicitly weave their faith into their art and ultimately, back into their
worldview with a fresh perspective.”<span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>-
Bob Weil is co-author of <i>The Art of iPhone Photography: Creating Great
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>"<i>Photograph God</i> gives us an amazing perspective
on our own existence, especially in the age of interconnected iPhone
culture." <span style="color: red;">- Prof. Michael Bielicky, Head of Department of Digital
Media/Postdigital Narratives, University of Art and Design/ZKM Center for Art
and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany</span></b></span></div>
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connect the networked world of Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Instagram, WhatsApp
and Blogspot, with the concept of the unseen God." <span style="color: red;">- Dr. Yael Eylat
Van-Essen, author of <i>Digital Culture: Virtuality, Society and Information</i>,
teaches at Tel Aviv University and Holon Institute of Technology, Israel</span><i> </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><i>"Photograph God</i> is an intellectually exciting book
that stimulates the sensory palate. Dr. Alexenberg shares in-depth,
meaningful insights about encountering God in the creative process through
photography. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using
photography as the vehicle, we are guided, one idea at a time, to an
understanding of what the author means by, ’looking up, looking out, and
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<br />Mel Alexenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182769814712212162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29529413.post-37586232765355113132015-09-13T16:41:00.002+03:002015-09-16T20:08:49.386+03:00Wonderful Sequel to The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Consciousness</i>. Both offer special
insights into the postmodern nature of biblical consciousness as an open-ended
living system. His new book teaches how
to photograph life’s journey by photographing God in every nook and cranny of
life. Alexenberg locates art in the realm of personal experience and creative
expression at a time when art education is falling under the jurisdiction of
more singular bureaucratic prescriptions. <i>Photograph God: Creating a Spiritual Blog
of Your Life</i> is a valuable addition to the literature of art education.” <span style="color: red;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">– Dr. Jerome J. Hausman, author of <i>Arts
and the Schools, </i>former Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
and World Council member, International Society for Education Through Art </span></span></span></b></span><br />
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writer and blogger working at the interface between art, science, technology
and culture whose artworks are in the collections of more than 40 museums
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explores the interface between biblical narrative, kabbalah and digital
technologies. It demonstrates how to create a blog by photographing God’s
“divine light” … “as revealed in everyday life while crafting a dialogue
between the bloggers story and the biblical story.”</span></span></div>
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hungry for love and food. He pets each one and portions out food for them.”</span></span></div>
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celebrate their 52nd wedding anniversary. During each of the 52 weeks of their
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subway posters and screen printed digitized Rembrandt angels and spiritual
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Comments:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Chaim Meiersdorf - Yeshiva University </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span data-reactid=".0.0.2.0:$1000807493297410_1000808036630689.$right.0.$left.0.1.0"><span class="_5mdd" data-reactid=".0.0.2.0:$1000807493297410_1000808036630689.$right.0.$left.0.1.0.0"><span data-reactid=".0.0.2.0:$1000807493297410_1000808036630689.$right.0.$left.0.1.0.0.$end:0:$text0:0">Mel Alexenberg is simply a genius. I had the pleasure of watching him in action when I worked for him as Rabbi of the Yerucham Art College in the early 1980's. He had a special knack for synthesizing profound Jewish ideas with the plastic arts. The arts enhanced the Jewish message and visa versa. It is wonderful to see that Mel is keeping up the creative work, full speed ahead.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Your approach, while fundamentally spiritual and fired by a kindred spark as my
own passion for seeing, is a mirror of a different sort of our mutual
exploration of our humanity.”<span style="color: red;"> <span style="line-height: 115%;">- Julie DuBose, author of <i>Effortless</i> <i>Beauty: Photography as an
Expression of Eye, Mind and Heart</i>, Director, Miksang Institute for
Contemplative Photography, Colorado</span></span></span></b></span>Mel Alexenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182769814712212162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29529413.post-89902429791997388832015-07-08T07:47:00.001+03:002015-08-23T10:44:00.993+03:00The Old Will Be Renewed, and the New Will Be Sanctified<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"capturing" God in photographs and restricting Him to two-dimensional
images - into a mystical exercise as we open our eyes to the Divinity found in
our everyday lives. The book's wonderful synthesis between spirituality and
technology, heaven and earth, is exciting and thought-provoking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Photograph God</i> is a practical
demonstration of Solomon's wisdom: "Acknowledge God in all your
paths." <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alexenberg's affirmation of
the spiritual potential of the Internet, blogging, photography, new
technologies and social media, brings to mind the dictum of </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the first Chief Rabbi of pre-state Israel: 'The
old will be renewed, and the new will be sanctified<i>.'"<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></i></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>- </i><span style="line-height: 115%;">Rabbi Chanan Morrison, author of <i>Gold
from the Land of Israel </i></span></span></span></b><br />
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>“<i>Photograph God: Creating a Spiritual Blog of Your
Life</i> is the most recent, and arguably one of art’s most complete and
compelling integrations of the sacred and profane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mel Alexenberg shows the way to the divine
via digital imagery and heightened perception of its presence in the moving
face of every person, place, and thing. The book is packed with wisdom and
learning about Talmudic tradition, creative expression, and cyberangels. It
reads like a swift and soulful breeze. I love every “byte” of it." </b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">- Dr. Shaun McNiff,
author <i>of Earth Angels: Engaging the Sacred in Everyday Things </i>and <i>Imagination in Action:
Secrets for Unleashing Creative Expression,</i> the first University Professor
of Lesley University, Cambridge </span></b></span></span></span>Mel Alexenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182769814712212162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29529413.post-51993042356116903282015-02-26T07:07:00.004+02:002015-04-15T11:32:36.614+03:00A Scintillating Experiment in Creativity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Mel Alexenberg offers a scintillating experiment in
creativity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His work is an invitation to
deepen your spiritual sensibilities as you extend your imagination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An interesting and relevant approach to spiritual
practice and creative expression.” </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">- Jan Phillips, author of <i>God Is
at Eye Level: Photography as a Healing Art</i> and </span></span><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Finding the On-Ramp to
Your Spiritual Path: A Roadmap to Joy and Rejuvenation</span></span><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></span></b></span>Mel Alexenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182769814712212162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29529413.post-82488999770795479042015-02-25T07:28:00.001+02:002015-04-15T11:39:10.177+03:00Amazing Perspective on iPhone Culture<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>"<i>Photograph God</i> is so inspiring on many levels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really enjoyed it because it gives us an
amazing perspective on our own existence, especially in the age of the
interconnected iPhone culture.</b><span style="color: orange;"> <span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;">- Prof. Michael
Bielicky, Head of Department of Digital Media/Postdigital Narratives,
University of Art and Design/ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe</span></span></b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />Mel Alexenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182769814712212162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29529413.post-28960278065774444752015-02-24T10:44:00.003+02:002015-04-15T11:33:20.154+03:00Kabbalah and Contemporary Culture<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>“<i>Photograph God</i> strikes a balance between Kabbalah
and contemporary culture. It is replete with imagery from both universes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is literate, wise, and easily accessible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alexenberg offers us an elegant and devout
example of an evolved Jewish Weltanschauung.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Make no mistake; this is a serious contribution to contemporary
neo-kabbalah.”</b><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">- Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, author of <i>Kabbalah: A Love Story</i> and <i>God
Was in This Place & I, i Did Not Know: Finding Self, Spirituality and
Ultimate Meaning</i>,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scholar-in-Residence
at Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco</span></b></span></span>Mel Alexenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182769814712212162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29529413.post-61110018135211649742015-02-23T10:20:00.002+02:002015-04-15T11:33:50.591+03:00Digital Culture and Jewish Wisdom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhufaADMBRME1jf-NtNe_6eqLErKd7-Qb5UUOVFSOh6XDz1yEY_tnY6_yIpacUlX1E4l4qP3d8W2ti2Bvxkan2nONAMD8f7P_34CAgJGGEhwSAzje4o9BsnQRuNx2okbSD_9jfe/s1600/6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhufaADMBRME1jf-NtNe_6eqLErKd7-Qb5UUOVFSOh6XDz1yEY_tnY6_yIpacUlX1E4l4qP3d8W2ti2Bvxkan2nONAMD8f7P_34CAgJGGEhwSAzje4o9BsnQRuNx2okbSD_9jfe/s1600/6.jpg" height="320" width="400" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">“In his sophisticated and highly literate book, Prof.
Alexenberg weaves in a playful way the threads between contemporary digital
culture and traditional Jewish wisdom. In an original way, he invites us to
connect the networked world of Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Instagram, WhatsApp
and Blogspot, with the concept of the unseen God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using the metaphor of the camera, he provides
interesting and surprising intersections between new-media culture and
theological issues.”<span style="color: purple;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">- Dr. Yael Eylat
Van-Essen, author of <i>Digital Culture: Virtuality, Society and Information</i>,
teaches new media at Tel Aviv University and Holon Institute of Technology,
Israel</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span>Mel Alexenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182769814712212162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29529413.post-59555765566501779952015-02-22T16:40:00.001+02:002015-04-15T11:41:26.035+03:00Mystical Computer Program for Spiritual Seeing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>“Whether we see this book as a book<i> of</i> art – a mystical
computer program for spiritual seeing – or a book <i>about </i>art – to actually see
it, we must consult the beautiful blog at
<a href="http://bibleblogyourlife.blogspot.com/">http://bibleblogyourlife.blogspot.com</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mel Alexenberg is a wonderfully accomplished worker on a great project:
to make art a conduit for the Divine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
this book he nourishes us with a generous sampling, and leaves us hungry for a
full conspectus, of his work, thought and life.”</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">-</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <span style="color: red;">Rabbi Dr. Shimon
Cowen, Director, Institute for Judaism and Civilization, Victoria, Australia</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></span>Mel Alexenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182769814712212162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29529413.post-48631884705636086442015-02-21T19:40:00.005+02:002015-04-15T11:37:51.603+03:00Parallels in Christian Thought<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>"There are many parallels in Christian thought and deed that
should allow this excellent book to resonate with many people of faith. When I
picked up Prof. Alexenberg's book, I happened to be reading a spiritual guide
on contemplative prayer by an anonymous 14th century Christian mystic whose
words find a parallel in Alexenberg's exhortation to seek the Divine out in the
world in all that you see and photograph, and with love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has succeeded in creating a program for
photographers, on a daily basis, to explicitly weave their faith into their art
and ultimately, back into their worldview with a fresh perspective."</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: red;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">- Bob Weil, co-author of </span></span><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">The Art
of iPhone Photography: Creating Great Photos and Art on Your iPhone</span></span> </i></span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span>Mel Alexenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182769814712212162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29529413.post-44290464495203779672015-02-20T16:05:00.002+02:002015-04-15T11:38:10.636+03:00Sacred Dimensions of Our Lives<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>“Alexenberg proposes that text and image—something as simple
as photos taken with a smart phone, and multiplied in their resonance by the
internet—can be used as a consciousness raising tool, at once personal and
collective. With such simple means, we can attune ourselves to the sacred
dimensions of our lives from moment to moment. In fresh, clear language, he
brings his detailed knowledge of Torah texts and what he calls "the
down-to-earth mysticism of the kabbalah" to bear on daily life, showing
how the annual round of sacred readings from that spiraling scroll provides
prompts for deepening our personal and artistic practice.”</b> </span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">- Peter Samis, Associate Curator, Interpretation, San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></span>Mel Alexenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182769814712212162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29529413.post-51267723450596608972013-02-25T09:47:00.001+02:002015-04-15T11:42:41.658+03:00Creating a Spiritual Blog of Your Life<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Mel Alexenberg's book <i>Photograph God</i> shows how the networked world provides unprecedented creative opportunities for integrating experiences of the spiritual in the mundane with biblical commentary and kabbalistic insights through digital photographs, a narrative blog form, and the Internet’s social media. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Calibri;">
</span></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: orange;"></span></span></i></b>
<span style="color: red;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Abraham rushed to the tent to Sarah and said, “Hurry!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take three measures of the finest flour!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kneed it and make rolls!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><i>Abraham ran to the cattle to choose a tender and
choice calf.</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(<i>Genesis</i>
18:6,7) <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Abraham ran after a calf that ran away from him into a
cave that was the burial place of Adam and Eve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">At the far end of the cave, he saw intense light emanating
from an opening.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When he came close to the opening, he found himself standing
at the entrance to the Garden of Eden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">About to enter the pristine garden, he remembered that his
wife and three guests were waiting for lunch back at the tent.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What should he do?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Should he trade Paradise for a barbeque? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Bible tells us that he chose to return to the tent and
join his wife in making a meal for their three guests.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Abraham realized that Paradise is what we create with our
spouse at home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Other visions of
Paradise are either mirages or lies.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i>Enjoy life with the wife you love through all the days
of your life.</i></b> (<i>Ecclesiastes</i> 9:9)</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My wife, Miriam, and I worked together to create paradise in
our vegetarian kitchen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Adam and Eve had a vegetarian kitchen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Spirituality emerged from our collaboration making a potato
casserole for our guests.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We bought potatoes and scallions in Avi’s vegetable store
and cottage cheese and grated yellow cheese in Bella’s grocery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We baked the potatoes in the microwave, sliced them into the
baking pan and covered them with the cheeses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Miriam washed the scallions, cut them up, and sprinkled them
over layers of cheese-covered potatoes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>After the casserole was baked, we served it to our guests.</o:p></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> <o:p></o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b>Photograph God in Your Kitchen</b> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This biblical narrative linked to
revealing God in a contemporary kitchen is a posting from the “Torah Tweets” blog <a href="http://bibleblogyourlife.blogspot.com/">http://bibleblogyourlife.blogspot.com</a>
that presents the core concept of this book that we can photograph God in all
that happens in our everyday life. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although
its ideas are derived from the Hebrew Bible and kabbalah, its message speaks to
people of all religions and spiritual traditions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The book begins by teaching you how
to make an invisible God become visible through your creative lens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It draws on the ancient wisdom of kabbalah to
help you recognize that you have been looking at God all the time and often missed
the action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It helps you develop conceptual
and practical tools for photographing God as divine light reflected from every
facet of your life. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Just as a prism breaks up white
light into the colors of the spectrum, kabbalah reveals a spectrum of divine
light based upon the biblical passage<b> <span style="color: magenta;">“You God are the compassion, the
strength, the beauty, the success, the splendor, and the [foundation] of
everything in heaven and on earth” </span></b><span style="color: magenta;">(<i>Chronicles</i> 1:29). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>You will learn that photographing God is to
creatively photograph these six divine attributes as they flow down into your
life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The book
invites you to connect your personal narrative to the biblical narrative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It guides you in creating your own blog to
document how your everyday experiences reflect biblical messages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It teaches how to find fresh meaning in your
life story by relating it to the biblical story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Having learned how to focus your
lens on God wherever you look will help you create blog narratives gleaned from
your reading the Bible creatively. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">You
will be encouraged to explore imaginative ways for blogging photographic
sequences that link two stories – the story of your life as it unfolds and the
enduring biblical story. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will learn
creative ways to write accompanying tweet texts to disseminate worldwide through
Twitter and other social media. 52 postings from the “Torah Tweets” blogart
project that my wife, the artist Miriam Benjamin, and I created offers a model for
your Bible blogging.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: red;"><b>TorahTweets: A Postdigital
Biblical Commentary as a Blogart Narrative</b></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: red;"> </span>
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Miriam and I developed the “Torah
Tweets” blog to celebrate our 52nd year of marriage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During each of the 52 weeks of our 52nd year,
we posted photographs reflecting our life together with a text of tweets that
relates the weekly Torah reading to our lives. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Torah, the first five biblical books (<i>Genesis,
Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy</i>), is divided up into weekly portions. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This book invites other couples who
find the Bible an inspiration to celebrate their relationship by creating their
own blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spiritual blogging can also
be a meaningful way for individuals and families to reveal spirituality in
their lives.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Our “Torah Tweets” blog is a dialogue
between images and text.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The images are photographs of God as the
moving force in our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The text is
composed of tweets, sentences of not more than 140 characters required by the
Twitter social networking website.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Limiting the number of words in the "Torah Tweets" blog posts
is a creative challenge that imitates the Torah itself which does not waste
words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Torah tweets are like bursts of
bird song that sometimes gain a haiku-like poetic flavor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>140 is the numerical value (<i>gematria</i>)
of the Hebrew word <i>hakel</i>, which means to gather people together to share
a Torah learning experience as in <i>Leviticus</i> 8:3 and <i>Deuteronomy</i>
4:10.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Our year-long blogart project is a
narrative art form that reveals a paradigm shift from the Greek to the Hebraic
roots of Western Culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
conceptual background for the "Torah Tweets" blog is offered in my
book<i> The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic
Consciousness </i>(Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It explores
new art forms emerging from the postdigital age that address the humanization
of digital technologies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My discussion
of blogart reveals the contrast between static, moderate, passive Hellenistic
consciousness revived in the Renaissance and dynamic, open-ended,
action-centered Hebraic consciousness at the core of postmodern art. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A blog is a web log, an active
diary of a living process in a networked world, rather than still life
contained by a golden frame. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “Torah
Tweets” blog transforms the mundane into the spiritual, the ordinary into the
extraordinary, and experiences of daily living into expressions of biblical
values.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The blog begins with quotations
that all present this idea from alternative viewpoints. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: magenta;"><b><span style="color: orange;"> <span style="color: red;">Spiritual Dimensions of Everyday Life</span></span></b><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i><b>"For the Lord thy
God walketh in the midst of thy camp."</b> (</i>Deuteronomy <i>23:15) </i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i>"Judaism
does not direct its gaze upward but downward ... does not aspire to a heavenly
transcendence, nor does it seek to soar upon the wings of some abstract,
mysterious spirituality. It fixes its gaze upon concrete, empirical reality
permeating every nook and cranny of life. The marketplace, the factory, the
street, the house, the mall, the banquet hall, all constitute the backdrop of
religious life." (R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik) </i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i>"It is not enough
for the Jew to rest content with his own spiritual ascent, the elevation of his
soul in closeness to G-d, he must strive to draw spirituality down into the
world and into every part of it - the world of his work and his social life -
until not only do they not distract him from his pursuit of G-d, but they become
a full part of it." (R. Menachem M. Schneerson) </i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i>"If there is a
religious agency in our lives, it has to appear in the manner of our times. Not
from on high, but a revelation that hides itself in our culture, it will be
ground-level, on the street, it'll be coming down the avenue in the traffic,
hard to tell apart from anything else." (E. L. Doctorow) </i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i><span style="color: red;">"The
first message that Moses chose to teach the Jewish people as they were about to
enter the Land of Israel was to fuse heaven to earth, to enable the mundane to
rise up and touch the Divine, the spiritual to vitalize the physical, not only
as individuals but as an entire nation." (R. Abraham Y. Kook)</span> </i></span></div>
Mel Alexenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182769814712212162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29529413.post-70814197819767013702010-02-13T22:21:00.013+02:002015-04-16T16:26:25.558+03:00Searching for God Exhibition<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLKmPvneSTMngUKW1ANJQw9TZJser75VX9ec8Ke7L03T8xGKUs45alG9h1HtFhwAB7rSpGX9pCO3yVzOcP9fVnrFQUYyOMovjfyX0F5IsFjAPa4LJoa5xespN37gn4wUaJQyFD/s1600-h/searchinggodsmall.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLKmPvneSTMngUKW1ANJQw9TZJser75VX9ec8Ke7L03T8xGKUs45alG9h1HtFhwAB7rSpGX9pCO3yVzOcP9fVnrFQUYyOMovjfyX0F5IsFjAPa4LJoa5xespN37gn4wUaJQyFD/s400/searchinggodsmall.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437834610381249042" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 127px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><b><span style="color: red;">PHOTOGRAPH GOD</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><b>Mel Alexenberg, artist </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><b><span style="color: purple;">SEARCHING FOR GOD EXHIBITION</span> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><b>Kuhn Fine Arts Gallery </b></span></span><br />
<b><span style="color: #cc33cc;">Ohio State University - Marion Campus</span></b><br />
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<b>Ohio State University students, visitors to the <i><span style="color: #cc33cc;">Searching for God</span></i> exhibition, and people throughout the world are invited to participate in the <i><span style="color: #3366ff;">Photograph God</span></i> project by sharing their images and thoughts with others globally.</b> <br />
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Photograph events in your everyday life that reveal the divine attributes of compassion, strength, beauty, success, splendor, integration. Send two photographs that document a process like a comic strip or storyboard sequence with a sentence identifying the place where the event took place and how it expresses one of the six divine attributes. For participation in the "Searching for God" exhibition, send your photographs as jpg images (300-400 pixels wide) and your text as a Word document to the Kuhn Fine Arts Gallery at Ohio State University.<br />
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Mel Alexenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182769814712212162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29529413.post-71637285786474246212008-05-09T08:40:00.014+03:002015-04-15T20:37:05.531+03:00How to Photograph God<span style="color: red;"><b>Kabbalah through a Creative Lens</b></span><br />
Focus your camera lens on God and you will see God looking back at you. Seeing God is seeing divine light reflected from every facet of your life. The ancient wisdom of kabbalah will help you recognize that you have been looking at God all the time but missed the action.<br />
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You only see light. You have never seen your mother, father, spouse, or children. You only have seen the light reflected from them. You only see light passing through your eye’s lens, stimulating the rods and cones in your retina, and transmitting the forms and colors of those you love to your brain. Just as you enjoy seeing your loved ones from the light they reflect, you can find joy seeing divine light reflected from every place you look. This blog teaches how to see the spectrum of divine light through your camera lens.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Photograph God in Reflections of Reality</b></span><br />
God does not exist in reality. God is reality itself. Rabbi David Aaron, who teaches kabbalah in the Old City of Jerusalem, explains in his book, <i>Seeing God</i>, that God is the all-embracing context for everything. In Hebrew, God is called <i>Hamakom</i>, which means “The Place.” God is the place where everything is happening. You do not exist alongside God; you exist within God, within the only one reality that is God. Everything is in God, God is in everything, but God is also beyond everything.<br />
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Seeing God is all about getting in touch with reality. If you want to photograph God, focus your lens on <i>Hamakom</i>, The Place, anyplace where you see divine light illuminating reality. Let your camera collect the light reflecting from the reality shaping your everyday life and you will find yourself photographing God in action.<br />
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To photograph God as the place where all action takes place, you need to redefine the English word “God,” a Germanic word conjuring up images of some all-powerful being zapping us if we step out of line. This is an alien concept in kabbalah. Names for God in biblical Hebrew are not really names for God at all. They are names linked to divine attributes. Hebrew speakers call God <i>Hashem</i>, literally “The Name.” When you read “God” here, think of the Hebrew word <i>Hashem</i>, The Name of the nameless One encompassing all of reality and beyond.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Photograph God as a Verb</b></span><br />
God is a verb. God is no thing – <i>no</i>thing in the process of becoming everything. The great 16th century kabbalist, Rabbi Isaac Luria, known as The Ari, calls God <i>Ha’efes Hamukhlat</i>, “The Absolute Nothingness,” as well as <i>Ein Sof</i>, “Endless.” God is One, infinite nothingness and everything in the universe all at once.<br />
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You can discern God over time, in the flow, in the action, in the process of something becoming something else. The primary biblical divine name <i>YHVH</i>, usually translated as “God,” should really be translated as “Is-Was-Will Be.” <i>YHVH</i> integrates past, present, and future of the verb “to be.” It is associated with the divine attribute of inner beauty (<i>tiferet</i>). When beauty hidden in the mundane suddenly jumps out at you, catch the action in a series of photographs of Is-Was-Will Be. Don’t freeze the action in a still-life picture, <i>nature morte</i> (dead life in French).<br />
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Photograph living processes in a series of images like comic strip or storyboard sequences. Show before and after. Photograph <i>KUZU</i>. <i>KUZU</i> is <i>YHVH</i> in motion. The biblical passage beginning with “Hear, O Israel, <i>YHVH</i> is our God, <i>YHVH</i> is One” (<i>Deuteronomy</i> 6:4-9), is written by a scribe on small parchment scrolls affixed to doorposts in Jewish homes. These mini-Torahs called <i>mezuzot</i>, a word derived from the root <i>zaz</i>, which means to move. Each scroll is rolled up with the biblical text on the inside. On the outside of the scroll at the place on the reverse side of where <i>YHVH</i> is written, the scribe writes <i>KUZU</i> to set God in motion.<br />
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<i>K-U-Z-U</i> is spelled with each of the four letters that follow <i>Y-H-V-H</i> in the Hebrew alphabet. <i>K </i>follows <i>Y</i>, <i>U</i> follows <i>H</i>, <i>Z</i> follows <i>V</i>, and <i>U</i> follows <i>H</i>. It is if we were to write GOD as HPE, H being the letter following G, P the letter following O, and E the letter following D. In addition to moving each of the letters in <i>YHVH</i> forward, <i>KUZU</i> is written upside-down to invite us to see God in motion from multiple viewpoints. Photograph <i>KUZU</i>.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Photograph God in Every Nook and Cranny of Life</b></span><br />
Look for God in every aspect of your life. Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, one of the foremost thinkers of the 20th century, teaches that you should not direct your glance upward but downward, not aspire to a heavenly transcendence nor seek to soar upon the wings of some abstract, mysterious spirituality, but to fix your gaze upon concrete reality. He emphasizes that you should not confine your search for God to houses of worship for you can find God penetrating into every nook and cranny of life. Photograph God in the details of empirical reality permeating your daily mundane activities.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Photograph God in Your Work and Social Life</b></span><br />
Draw God down into everything you do. The Lubavicher Rebbe, Menachem M. Schneerson, the greatest contemporary Hasidic master, emphasizes that it is not enough to rest content with your own spiritual ascent, the elevation of your soul in closeness to God. You must also strive to draw spirituality down into the world and into every part of your involvement with it – your work and your social life – until not only do they not distract you from your pursuit of God, but they become a full part of it. Photograph God in your relationships with others.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Photograph God at Ground Level</b></span><br />
In his acclaimed novel, <i>The City of God</i>, E. L. Doctorow echoes these rabbinic thoughts: “If there is a religious agency in our lives, it has to appear in the manner of our times. Not from on high, but a revelation that hides itself in our culture, it will be ground-level, on the street, it’ll be coming down the avenue in the traffic, hard to tell apart from anything else. It will be cryptic, discerned over time, piecemeal, to be communally understood at the end like a law of science.” Photograph God everywhere you go and in everything you do.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Photograph God in the Still Silent Voice</b></span><br />
Living for seven years in the Negev desert, I would frequently walk through the desert mountains where a strong silence surrounded me and followed me. The silence grew more intense as I stopped to stoop down to get a close look at a tiny flowering plant emerging from the crevice of a rock. The Hebrew word for “desert” <i>MiDBaR</i> is spelled with the same letters as the word for “speaking” <i>MiDaBeR</i>. The desert speaks softly about delicate forms of life. In the desert, you can see the quiet voice of God. In the Sinai desert, “all the people saw the sounds” (<i>Exodus</i> 20:15) rather than heard them.<br />
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Standing on a desert mountain, the prophet Elijah saw a great powerful wind, smashing mountains and breaking rocks. After the wind came an earthquake and after the earthquake was fire and after the fire there was a still silent voice. Elijah saw God in the still silent voice, rather than in the mighty wind, rather than in the rumbling earthquake, rather than in the raging fire. (I <i>Kings</i> 19:11-12). Listen for the still silent voice as you photograph God in the intimate spaces and minute details of your life. Transform your vision of small ordinary events into extraordinary images.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Photograph the Spectrum of Divine Light</b> </span><br />
Just as a prism breaks up white light into the colors of the spectrum, kabbalah reveals a spectrum of divine light derived from the biblical passage “You God are the compassion, the strength, the beauty, the success, the splendor, and everything in heaven and on earth” (<i>Chronicles</i> 1:29). Look for these six attributes of divine light flowing down into your life.<br />
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<i><span style="color: red;">Hesed</span></i>: Compassion / Largess / Loving All<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><i>Gevurah</i>:</span> Strength / Judgment / Setting Limits<br />
<span style="color: purple;"><i>Tifert</i>:</span> Beauty / Aesthetic Balance / Inner Elegance<br />
<span style="color: red;"><i>Netzakh</i>:</span> Success / Orchestration / Eternity<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><i>Hod</i>:</span> Splendor / Gracefulness / Magnificence<br />
<span style="color: purple;"><i>Yesod</i>:</span> Foundation / Everything Integrated / Gateway to Action<br />
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Focus on episodes expressing these attributes as you walk through the streets, ride on a bus, shop in the mall, dance at a wedding, hike in the countryside, or come home from work. “God walks in the midst of your camp” (<i>Deuteronomy</i> 23:15). <i>KeReV</i>, the Hebrew word for “midst,” shares the same root as being “close” <i>KaRoV.</i> As you sense the closeness of God walking with you, create six sets of pictures revealing the spectrum of divine light that you see all around you.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Let God Look Back at You</b></span><br />
Photographer Jan Phillips quotes from Rabbi Elimelech as she shares her thoughts about focusing her lens on God in her book on photography and creativity, <i>God is at Eye Level</i>: “Whoever does not see God in every place does not see God in any place…. My eyes find God everywhere, in every living thing, creature, person, in every act of kindness, act of nature, act of grace. Everywhere I look, there God is looking back, looking straight back.”<br />
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<i><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><b>My students at Ariel University and Emunah College in Jerusalem created most of the photographic sequences posted in this blog.</b> </span><span style="color: #cc33cc;"> </span></i>Mel Alexenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182769814712212162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29529413.post-17372822575270281062007-04-20T13:35:00.005+03:002015-04-15T20:38:46.944+03:00Yesod: 5 Generations<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBBiGAJaDH5F_v68aE6YGNyTgVAnEO9IAzeDssWKN5O4yYVZrMNQG-hJwRUz2PgoHRw1U0nYS5N31eFYucNVb-Glb1ZSXsOu0y1xm74A4nWWQAPUFSm3yZAle7TFYEgDkZSlKR/s1600-h/5+generations.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBBiGAJaDH5F_v68aE6YGNyTgVAnEO9IAzeDssWKN5O4yYVZrMNQG-hJwRUz2PgoHRw1U0nYS5N31eFYucNVb-Glb1ZSXsOu0y1xm74A4nWWQAPUFSm3yZAle7TFYEgDkZSlKR/s320/5+generations.jpg" height="256" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5055457853894860610" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrCcvrojbSMvsrNwrnOWrCefPnCRTXrSZHRtzYGrkLzxt9FVeuEJfxUF6elHf721q1wBx957SpI_iPrhKBkN5-RB9t1mvyXQtxhnzm1iYM-AQCZno7IpUvltfGgY4XHuKMiJ2t/s1600-h/5generations100.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrCcvrojbSMvsrNwrnOWrCefPnCRTXrSZHRtzYGrkLzxt9FVeuEJfxUF6elHf721q1wBx957SpI_iPrhKBkN5-RB9t1mvyXQtxhnzm1iYM-AQCZno7IpUvltfGgY4XHuKMiJ2t/s320/5generations100.JPG" height="298" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5055457488822640434" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #cc33cc;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i>Yesod</i></b></span> is five generations of my family.<span style="color: purple;"> </span><b><span style="color: purple;"><i>Yesod</i></span> </b>(foundation) represents the balance between <b><span style="color: red;"><i>netzakh</i></span></b> (success/eternity) and <span style="color: #3366ff;"><b><i>hod</i></b> </span>(splendor/grace). </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc33cc;">The top photograph was taken in 2006, when my great-grandson, Yechiel Eliad, was eight days old.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc33cc;">The bottom photograph was taken one year later when we celebrated Eliadi's first birthday, and the 100th birthday of my mother-in-law, Eliadi's great-great-grandmother, Anna Benjamin, on the 59th anniversary of Israel's independence. Behind them are my wife, Miriam, our granddaughter, Inbal, and our daughter, Iyrit.</span></div>
Mel Alexenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182769814712212162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29529413.post-9581714830581149752007-01-31T23:23:00.000+02:002007-01-31T23:32:14.448+02:00Hesed: Compassionate Intervention<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo7-JGnLAdsY8FBnmGHkgOAre0NjTrqjSG0JZAmy15jTGxtZmsjxojMDFZKTaWC8owTT70gUaAe_FcwT4UUSGib02IGadeg10Y7Gf9ZuumxoR-zPH8BpUQBL4lFsfHu8lIALcM/s1600-h/newborn.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5026310442540498114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo7-JGnLAdsY8FBnmGHkgOAre0NjTrqjSG0JZAmy15jTGxtZmsjxojMDFZKTaWC8owTT70gUaAe_FcwT4UUSGib02IGadeg10Y7Gf9ZuumxoR-zPH8BpUQBL4lFsfHu8lIALcM/s320/newborn.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu_YcBhoB0r_YaWXOvBd6GhR2UcyfOMMfWaE9kefrllfebNVYHN7-cReJfLg6gUMFCvSiK1hYt_RnOglxC1XhbbsL9RWvJILcCxXJL1imo1qcNDJZNm7U7VQVwVGcTADegmRYf/s1600-h/PICT0015.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5026310227792133298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu_YcBhoB0r_YaWXOvBd6GhR2UcyfOMMfWaE9kefrllfebNVYHN7-cReJfLg6gUMFCvSiK1hYt_RnOglxC1XhbbsL9RWvJILcCxXJL1imo1qcNDJZNm7U7VQVwVGcTADegmRYf/s320/PICT0015.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="color:#ff0000;">Tal Bilgoray sees compassion in the intervention of a medical team aiding a premature baby.</span></div>Mel Alexenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182769814712212162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29529413.post-13042810242743253772007-01-31T23:06:00.000+02:002015-04-15T20:39:30.716+03:00Gevurah: Strength is Defending Home<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6NBWo7XDPcvBaindwNewNBz1UYVZtu8cNv193_AFRkbrNmojpMfiaewjRdgs727IvJa1sePp3EFLRXtDOtdeBesMOadXjWcpps41PjCbOTymzOhhnk5J40SjGHckrNyxRZiQj/s1600-h/%C3%97%C2%A1%C3%97%C2%95%C3%97%C2%A3+%C3%97%C2%9E%C3%97%C2%A1%C3%97%C2%9C%C3%97%C2%95%C3%97%C2%9C+143.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6NBWo7XDPcvBaindwNewNBz1UYVZtu8cNv193_AFRkbrNmojpMfiaewjRdgs727IvJa1sePp3EFLRXtDOtdeBesMOadXjWcpps41PjCbOTymzOhhnk5J40SjGHckrNyxRZiQj/s320/%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%A3+%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9C+143.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5026304652924583074" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-EGehVLZvt47VoX8XFrYehw_oAdrOLn2oA5YHNM-5Rzjzzo-IEio3mMp5xNhiPINk_YvHN3zLH4u2ZKqztvDkWgimugnbFVWCxCg1rwfSIq13R2-E4OgyfmCOkvWZFRUMMCGo/s1600-h/%C3%97%C2%A1%C3%97%C2%95%C3%97%C2%A3+%C3%97%C2%9E%C3%97%C2%A1%C3%97%C2%9C%C3%97%C2%95%C3%97%C2%9C+160.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-EGehVLZvt47VoX8XFrYehw_oAdrOLn2oA5YHNM-5Rzjzzo-IEio3mMp5xNhiPINk_YvHN3zLH4u2ZKqztvDkWgimugnbFVWCxCg1rwfSIq13R2-E4OgyfmCOkvWZFRUMMCGo/s320/%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%A3+%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9C+160.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5026304283557395602" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><span style="color: #ff6600;"> <span style="color: purple;">Tal Bilgoray sees strength in her brother's preparation for his unit going into action to defend Israel from terrorist attacks.</span></span><br />
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