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Tachlis/ תכלס

29 Monday Nov 2021

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hannukah 2021, Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, tachlis, תכלס

Like a bird, man can reach undreamed-of heights as long as he works his wings. Should he relax them for but one minute, however, he plummets downward.

(Rabbi Yisrael Salanter)

חיים שאל ממך נתתה לו
Life he requested of You, You gave it to him. (Tehillim 21:5)

Hashem, I am asking for life from You – but not the life of an animal who merely exists to fulfill its bodily desires. I am asking for a life in which each day I can work to fulfill the tachlis of why You put me here in this world.

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Thin periscope

26 Friday Nov 2021

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Herzog, Lotte Eisner

When I look at you

A reed smell comes to me

Thin periscope

Discreet among all the chirping and bird songs

It’s all about echolocation

Tonight

I wanted to let the sky enter my foundations

Widen the walls

Surprise the slow sway of the branches in the wind

Everything changed

My building no longer needs columns or a water jet

I started looking for air holes that would break the sonorous magma of the city

The envelope of my building is no longer an envelope.

The walls are no longer walls

I told you about Herzog’s diary

How he had undertaken a twenty two days march from Munich to Paris

Against the fate of the imminent death of Lotte Eisner

Haw at the end he walks into the sick room declaring

Open the window for the past few days I have been able to fly

So do I

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Variety of meanings

24 Wednesday Nov 2021

Posted by S/O in Memory, Uncategorized

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Cristina Nadal, Federico Fellini, Max Ernst

Feeling nostalgic today. Longing for the past. Not mine but ours. We have fallen into an eternal present where everything that happens is obsessively ′′ cartographed “. The chance to process has vanished as time has vanished, losing the ability to transform into memory. Every fact equals another. In the background there is insisting an endless comment and the feeling is that it’s an empty talk, which never really exists, since there’s no longer a real object of conversation, of comparison. There are no longer events that surpass us and on the track of which we are stubbornly standing. Nothing that deserves to be archived in the remittance of Memory and History.

And then, inevitably, I remember the last Fellini, the one of the moon’s voice, when the naive protagonist, melancholy poet and in love, summarily says: ′′ Yet I believe that if there was a bit of silence, everyone Let’s keep quiet, maybe we can understand something “.

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Every generation to be civilized

07 Sunday Nov 2021

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Hannah Arendt, Ira Hayes, Thomas Sowell

“Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them ‘children’.” Hannah Arendt

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Tidy up Art

03 Wednesday Nov 2021

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Armelle Caron, Ursus Wehrli

So what happens to the sense, notion, and identity of your face dissolved and rearranged into pieces ?

Like the French artist Armelle Caron explores in her playful series “Everything Tidy” doing to cities what Ursus Wehrli does to art. Deconstructing the familiar grid representations into “tidy” graphic anagrams. Dissect the symbolism, analyze the message.

New York City
Paris
Berlin

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Archives

03 Wednesday Nov 2021

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Eastern air defence sector

The reinforcements are in place: the sand, the cement, the stones, the water to bury the archives are missing. Behind, all around, between two cracks, thrive, from left to right; a piece of steel from the collapsed World Trade Center, a piece from the damaged Pentagon in DC and a rock from the crash site of UA Flight 93 (Shanksville PA). The past shines like never before, without witnesses.

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The only thing

01 Monday Nov 2021

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Klausenberger Rebbe

I stand in amazement and wonder, what good thing did I do that pleased the Almighty and caused him to bless me so? I have reached the conclusion that the only thing I could have done to merit all this is that even in the most difficult times I never once had a complaint against the Creator. Rather, with every wave that passed over me, threatening to drown me, I bowed my head and accepted it with love.

(Klausenberger Rebbe)

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