Cyber Ohr -Welcome to The Experimental Museum of the Jewish Future
Welcome to the Jewish Experiment
Pardes
“Pick a time: choose a place: select a mood: conceive an idea: the chances are certain that Jewish history has encompassed it, that some form of Judaism embodied it. The rationalistic tradition has had its Philos, and its Maimonides: the mystical yearning has produced its Isaac Lurias: the simple religious yearnings of the downtrodden and the illiterates have their Baal Shem Tobs: the austere rigor of the law has had its Joseph Karos and its Vilna Gaons. Poetry, drama, art, historiography, and every variety of literature have found a welcome in some form of Judaism, in some period of Jewish history. Orthodoxy and heresy, compassion and cruelty, creativity and stagnation, innovation and tradition – indeed the total range of human experience and emotion has manifested itself in Judaism.” 33
“does not fear that he will be stripped of his emotions if he becomes Maimonides and re-experiences his Judaism: he is not concerned less he abandon rational thinking because he temporarily refeels the mystic fervor of Isaac Luria. He can be both the Vilna Gaon poring over the folios of the Talmud and the Ba’al Shem Tob who communed with all that is. He can do all this because he has grasped the fact that Judaism is the historical rendition of man’s groping with life and hence it has been as manifold, contradictory, and conflicting as that groping itself.”21
Judaism, as an example, must be seen as a value-added, positive, embracing set of ideas and practices supporting us to live in the world and to actualize constructive change. How such organizing principles are ultimately introduced, embedded, and acculturated represents a major cultural and operational challenge for our community.
“Reimagining the American Jewish communal model” BySteven Windmueller, Ph.D. https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/reimaging-the-american-jewish-communal-model/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Your%20Daily%20Phil%20May%2030%202024&utm_content=Your%20Daily%20Phil%20May%2030%202024+CID_23d85fb78afa3f2ef4ebb067ab6b82f7&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Read%20the%20full%20piece%20here
Future shock
The historian of the Jewish future Rivkin
Their idols are silver and gold. The handiwork of man,
A mouth they have but they do not speak,
Eyes they have but they do not see.
Ears they have but they do not hear,
A nose they have but they do not smell.
Their hands-but they do not feel;
Their feet-but they do not walk;
They make not sound with their throat.
(Translation by Robert Alter, The Book of Psalms)
http://splitrockstrategies.com – Overall Thought collector – Creativity, Innovation, Transformation
visualmidrash.com – Rabbi Nicolas Behrmann as Visual Midrashist – Photography
https://visualmidrash.splitrockstrategies.com/midrash/ – Positioning Visual Midrash as Jewish Art
TheJewishExperiment.org – Baseline for experimental approach
https://splitrockstrategies.com/Experiment/ – Revision of Experimental Approach
Yoursacredsmartphone.com – Baseline for Sacred Smartphone Approach
https://sites.google.com/splitrockstrategies.com/pardes/home – Developing Pardes concept
https://sacredsmartphone.splitrockstrategies.com/Smartphone/ – Revision of Sacred Smartphone
The Pardes experiment with split rock thinking
Pard
The PaRDeS environment for Jewish encounter
es the Jewish experiment with split rock thinking
The Reinventing Room
Pardes themes and exercises/ games
Visual Literacy
Shallow depth of visualization to bring to mind
The PARDES Digital Beit Midrash of Jewish Future
Ellis Rivkin’s to be Jewish in the future
The PaRDeS Factor
A visual Midrash of a people’s resilience
Gateway.,,
Using your Sacred Smartphone to find Your PARDES!
The Pardes creativity strategy
Through the cyber orchard
Designing your Pardes.?
The PaRDeS Experiment – Designing your personal amusement park
all the above