Wood Carving Santa Fe Museum
Moses Wood Carving
Agam Ark – Creativity, Innovation, Transformation
Agamโs own words:
โThe most daring innovations in technology and electronics should be employed to enhance our worship experience. The Eternal Light I created for the synagogue at the Palm Springs Jewish Community Center is controlled by computer, and the ark is engineered so that the Torah scrolls can be made to โdisappearโ when a non-religious activity is performed.โ
Unfortunately, over time the mechanism broke down, so the scrolls could not be lowered and raised.
The Agam ark is the central focus of the sanctuary, without the other common symbols of a jewish worship space such as a menorah, or image of the ten commandments. Therein the sanctuary is transformed into a modern worship environment, with panoramic windows revealing the local mountains.
A creative digital age translation of the first verses of the Bible from the original Hebrew can offer us a fresh look at connections between The Place and The Cloud. โIn the network, God created media systems for creating heaven and earth. When the earth was absolutely empty and dark, God created light and separated between light and darkness (1 and 0)โ We can read the first word of the Bible Bโreshit (In the beginning) as Bโreshet (In the network). In Genesis 1:1, the Hebrew word et appears twice, before heaven and before earth. โIn the beginning God created et the heaven and et the earth.โ Since English has no equivalent for the word et that links a verb to a noun, it drops out in translation. et is spelled alef-tav, the first and last letters of the Hebrew a alphabet. Spanning the full set of 22 Hebrew letters, et symbolizes media systems.
Alexenberg, Mel. Photograph God: Creating a Spiritual Blog of Your Life (pp. 45-46). Kindle Edition.
Websites Under Development
Split Rock Strategies
https://splitrockstrategies.com/
Sacred Smartphone:
https://sacredsmartphone.splitrockstrategies.com/Smartphone/
https://www.yoursacredsmartphone.com/
https://sites.google.com/view/yoursacredsmartphone/home
Jewish Experiment :
https://www.thejewishexperiment.org/
https://splitrockstrategies.com/Experiment/
https://splitrockstrategies.com/TheJewishExperiment/
Others:
https://nicolasbehrmann.academia.edu
https://nlbehrmann.myportfolio.com
Pardes:
https://sites.google.com/splitrockstrategies.com/pardes/home
Visual Midrash:
https://visualmidrash.splitrockstrategies.com/midrash/
https://splitrockstrategies.com/JewishArt/
https://visualizingjudaism.com/
Jewish Photographer
https://thejewishphotographer.net
Creativity
Midrash: written, visual, virtual and visceral
Midrash
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Beyond the Pardes Walls
Beyond is bi-directional:
The Pardes Wall at the Contemporary Jewish Museum invites visitors to the exhibits therein, while the inside of the walls of the original Persian Gardens beckon with the promise of comfort and refreshment.
Both the Pardes Wall and the walls of the original Persian Gardens offer their treasures and wisdom to us who are beyond the walls. There is also much to be learned from how Pardes has evolved from the Persian to the contemporary branding by a variety of entities.
Pardes Wall at Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
โPaRDeS is a light installation embedded in the wall of the Grand Lobby at the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM). Its stylized Hebrew letters translate as โorchardโ โ the connotation is that the orchard can be found on the other side of the wall. Metaphorically then, the sweetness, or fruit, of learning and art can be found inside the museum.
As a form of mystical multiculturalism, PaRDeS reflects the museumโs intention to cultivate different interpretation levels. An introductory wall panel explains that in the Jewish mystical tradition, four Hebrew letters (pey, resh, dalet and samech) each stand for a level of biblical interpretation: the literal, the allusive, the allegorical and the hidden.โย
https://illuminatesf.com/posts/sto/pardes-wall-yerba-buena
