“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." ― Pablo Picasso
Mesillat Yesharim: The Path of the Upright by Moses Hayyim Luzzatto. Jewish Publication Society, 2010.
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. Will God or someone else give me the strength to breathe the breath of prayer and mourning into my paintings, the breath of prayer for redemption and resurrection? - Marc Chagall
January 31st: dance excerpts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09IWu5sYkpc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZg6JY8PVi0
Living Inspired by Rabbi Akiva Tatz. Targum Press, 1993.
Mesillat Yesharim: The Path of the Upright by Moses Hayyim Luzzatto. Jewish Publication Society, 2010.
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” - Albert Einstein
(ז) רבי נחמן בר שמואל בר נחמן בשם רב שמואל בר נחמן אמר: הנה טוב מאד, זה יצר טוב. והנה טוב מאד, זה יצר רע. וכי יצר הרע טוב מאד אתמהא?! אלא שאלולי יצר הרע, לא בנה אדם בית, ולא נשא אשה, ולא הוליד, ולא נשא ונתן. וכן שלמה אומר: (קהלת ד): כי היא קנאת איש מרעהו:
(7) Rabbi Nahman said in Rabbi Samuel's name: 'Behold, it was good' refers to the Good Desire; 'And behold, it was very good' refers to the Evil Desire. (It only says 'very good' after man was created with both the good and bad inclinations, in all other cases it only says 'and God saw that it was good') Can then the Evil Desire be very good? That would be extraordinary! But without the Evil Desire, however, no man would build a house, take a wife, beget children or conduct business; and thus said Solomon: 'Again, I considered all labour and all excelling in work, that it is a man's rivalry with his neighbour.' (Ecclesiastes 4:4).