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Re: EEEEE Gads!phi_revolutionMarch 22 2006, 16:54:13 UTC
well before i had any comprehensive of Him... i was sitting down, writing, when i realized i had drawn a rabbit that looked hypnotized.... sitting way back in his seat like he was going really fast into something... and then it came to me, that line, "god. what is god?" and it seemed appropriate to include it with this post. and yes, it's repeated this many times, if not more, on the artwork.
Rabbi Michael Lerner, founder of Tikkun (http://www.tikkun.org/) -an incredible organization focused on healing the world around us-, write something in his book, Jewish Renewal, that struck me yesterday. Your post brought it to mind. I'll try to sum up his words...
To see God not as a patriarchal authority who rules in heaven that questionably violates the second commandment by creating an image of God, but as the force that makes healing and transformation possible. Lerner speaks of our human tendency to pass pain and cruelty from generation to generation, which has been highly studied in psychoanalytic thought for the past century, and the recent development in psychoanalysis -that Judaism has asserted all along- that there is a tendency toward transcendence and health in the universe. "The Power that makes this transcendence possible is what we Jews call God."
Sorry for the wordiness. It was difficult to sum up a whole chapter.
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i was sitting down, writing, when i realized i had drawn a rabbit that looked hypnotized.... sitting way back in his seat like he was going really fast into something... and then it came to me, that line, "god. what is god?" and it seemed appropriate to include it with this post. and yes, it's repeated this many times, if not more, on the artwork.
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To see God not as a patriarchal authority who rules in heaven that questionably violates the second commandment by creating an image of God, but as the force that makes healing and transformation possible. Lerner speaks of our human tendency to pass pain and cruelty from generation to generation, which has been highly studied in psychoanalytic thought for the past century, and the recent development in psychoanalysis -that Judaism has asserted all along- that there is a tendency toward transcendence and health in the universe. "The Power that makes this transcendence possible is what we Jews call God."
Sorry for the wordiness. It was difficult to sum up a whole chapter.
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