Category Archives: Portraiture

Joie de Vivre

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“For you, O LORD, have made me glad by your work; at the works of your hands I sing for joy.”

כִּי שִׂמַּחְתַּנִי יְהוָה בְּפָעֳלֶךָ בְּמַעֲשֵׂי יָדֶיךָ אֲרַנֵּן

Psalm 92:4

(This is a picture of my son Judah running and jumping through the woods at a state park…)

Seeing Wonder…

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My son looking out over Lake Itasca at sunset…

Abraham Heschel wrote, “Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme. Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal. What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe” (Heschel: God in Search of Man).