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On Being and Timelessness is about literature, translation, and ideas. Topics include how the ancient and the present connect; Jewish poetry and prose; why translation matters; and people who are worth a closer look.
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The Great Isaiah Scroll (opens the original)
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It’s rare to have an Isaiah update, but I feel obliged to notify all the Isaiah fans of this newsletter that these are the last few days to see the incredible huge and ancient Isaiah scroll in Jerusalem at the Israel Museum. If you are anywhere nearby, please rush to see it before the exhibit closes on October 3rd.The scroll, found in 1947 by Bedouin shepherds, is an astonishing 717 centimeters long or 23 and a half feet. It was written in 125 BCE, so yes, it is more than two thousand years old.
Prayer as Poetry (opens the original)
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Everyone has a favorite prayer—even those of us who don’t pray. My favorite prayer is four lines long, and it is in both the Rosh Hashanah and the Yom Kippur liturgy. To me it’s a writer’s prayer; it asks God for the ability to speak, to express oneself, to find words that have meanings.I love finding it each year. I wrote about this in the past, but I am thinking about it again. Here it is, on the bottom of the page in the first image below.Subscribe nowEven if you don’t r
Tel Aviv: A Photo Essay (opens the original)
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In scorching Tel Aviv, every day a little bit of graffiti breaks through the heat and gets to my heart. The easier, happier missives are in English, and the deeper, sadder, and openly angry ones are in Hebrew. Let’s start with a relatively sunny sticker someone affixed to a wall on Dizengoff Avenue, a main shopping thoroughfare in Tel Aviv:<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!15HJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstac
STARTING SOON: Poetry and Art Salon! (opens the original)
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Starting at 1 CST / 2 EST / 9 Israel time—join us for a very special salon featuring poet Rick Chess, author of the new collection The Loneliest Monk, out now from Orison Books, as well as four prior collections of poetry, and painter and sculptor Tobi Kahn, whose work has been featured in over 70 solo museum exhibitions, and appears in major collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.The salon will be held at 1 CST/ 2 EST/ 9
Reading About Painter Tobi Kahn (opens the original)
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I have been obsessively reading about the painter and sculptor Tobi Kahn and his work, as part of my preparation for this Sunday’s special poetry and art salon. In college, I double-majored in art history and writing, and I still love to read writing about art. It is undoubtedly an art form all its own.One theme of the many interviews with Kahn is the sense that his life and art are intertwined. As Rosh Hashanah approaches, I found myself returning to a comment he made about his sculpture HYYLAH
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