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At long last: the real story of the Bible’s two courtiers, Bigthan and Teresh, in an existentialist Purim play

the universe's "clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love"

Love lies in ties – it comes alive in bond, but dies in binding. A conversation about separateness, and connection.

Can we kindle and keep an eternal flame? A celestial, earthly, journey to a pre-apocalyptic world

The Decameron: How to get away with a quarantine? On our need for stories in order to live

I have the impression of living in Albert Camus’ landmark 1947 novel La Peste. More than 70 years later, it appears that the situation we ar

Once God guided us, but now, after its death, we turn to the Golem – rising against its own creator… Comparing The Golem & Metropolis

A friend sent me a picture, which took me down the rabbit hole… On love, hope, and motherhood - at the eve of Israeli election

What can the death-defying Sisyphus and Orpheus teach us? Sisyphus is a story of liberty lost, Orpheus of freedom, and love, tested.

Metropolis, Lang’s masterful 1927 silent film, might be naïve, but saw far and deep – into the heart of darkness.

(or: The Mind's I-I) A slightly elaborated comment to Shirley's What Do You See?, a very fine illustration of freedom (choice) and...

Can art dare Death to bare Life? A centennial to the untimely departure of two artists who captured the beauty of human frailty Uriel...

We may need God to “hope against hope,” to dream the impossible dream, but such freedom involves a leap of imagination, not of religious...

If comedy is “the art of tension diffusion,” as Hannah Gadsby puts it, it’s a different sort of “tension diffusion” she's after – the...

Writer and Illustrator: Keshet Leah Abulof I heard many stories from my friend, and I thought this one is the least scary… Once upon a...

One of the first questions that came to my mind while watching Call Me by Your Name was - why choosing this title, and more importantly,...

Why leave your love? I search for answers in Call Me by Your Name (the film & the book), and Milton’s Paradise Lost. This post is part of...

What if you received an email saying you had been erased from someone’s memory, and that you should no longer attempt to contact them?...

Today, on Nevo’s eleventh birthday, I thought it might be fitting to celebrate on Sapienism, by writing a bit about his name – and trying...

Haynes’s 2015 film Carol makes a case for love against all odds – but is that love blind? Movie reviews are as old as cinema itself – for...