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The Beauty Way: it's my mantra. Beauty in photography, design, words.
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Friendship (opens the original)
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PHOTOGRAPHYTHE MONTH OF ELUL is the final month of the Jewish year, a time of spiritual preparation for the New Year. Google says: The letters of Elul אֱלוּל form a Hebrew acronym for Ani le-dodi ve-dodi li—“I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine” (Song of Songs 6:3)—symbolizing the deep bond between the individual and the Divine. It contains the words dodi li! A rush of memory—that’s a Hebrew song from my childhood! Dodi li has the same meaning as the month of Elul. Let us f
What Is My Response-Ability? (opens the original)
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PHOTOGRAPHYNOTES TO MYSELF: What is my response-ability to this moment? I return to my teacher’s words: Remember yourself.Malka’s Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="button primary" type="submit" value="Subscribe"
The Damage Before the Truth (opens the original)
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PHOTOGRAPHY I BEGAN MAKING blurred images as a metaphor for what has been happening in my brain over the past three years — the jarring effects of cognitive dissonance.Remember the PSA with the voice-over, “This is what your brain looks like on drugs,” while an egg fried in a pan? Well, this is what my brain looks like in the face of the rapid rise of antisemitism, antizionism, or, let’s just call it what it is: Jew hatred.Thanks for reading Malka
Happy Solar Return (opens the original)
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MY MOM SAID I was an easy birth. I pray to have an easy death. More importantly, is it possible to be conscious at the moment we die? Decades ago one of my spiritual teachers drew a closed circle. He placed a dot on it representing the moment of birth and another designating one’s death. I looked at it with the wild realization that both dots occupied the same entry and exit point. Where one enters is where one departs! Today, I begin a new decade with the knowledge I’m much closer to the depart
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