Bigthan and Teresh Are Dead
At long last: the real story of the Bible’s two courtiers, Bigthan and Teresh, in an existentialist Purim play
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Uriel
- Dec 12, 2021
- 4 min
Starry Sunset: A Story of Contact and Connection
the universe's "clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love"
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Uriel
- Dec 3, 2020
- 14 min
Where Love Lies: Heart, Body & Soul
Love lies in ties – it comes alive in bond, but dies in binding. A conversation about separateness, and connection.
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Uriel
- Jul 29, 2020
- 5 min
Memories, a Reminder
Can we kindle and keep an eternal flame? A celestial, earthly, journey to a pre-apocalyptic world
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pushpanjalid
- May 4, 2020
- 7 min
The Decameron. On our need for stories in order to live
The Decameron: How to get away with a quarantine?
On our need for stories in order to live
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Amaury Hoymans
- Mar 20, 2020
- 4 min
How much is the human life worth to a government?
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
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Uriel
- Mar 13, 2020
- 4 min
God is Dead, Long Live Golem?
Once God guided us, but now, after its death, we turn to the Golem – rising against its own creator… Comparing The Golem & Metropolis
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Uriel
- Mar 1, 2020
- 4 min
The Shape of Hope
A friend sent me a picture, which took me down the rabbit hole… On love, hope, and motherhood - at the eve of Israeli election
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Uriel
- Dec 24, 2019
- 7 min
Can We Imagine Orpheus Happy?
What can the death-defying Sisyphus and Orpheus teach us? Sisyphus is a story of liberty lost, Orpheus of freedom, and love, tested.
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Uriel
- Dec 17, 2019
- 6 min
Have you Heart?
Metropolis, Lang’s masterful 1927 silent film, might be naïve, but saw far and deep – into the heart of darkness.
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Uriel
- Oct 22, 2019
- 3 min
I See You
(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...
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Shirley Le Penne
- Dec 31, 2018
- 10 min
Love Life&Death: Klimt and Schiele
Can art dare Death to bare Life? A centennial to the untimely departure of two artists who captured the beauty of human frailty Uriel...
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Uriel
- Dec 15, 2018
- 4 min
Do we need God to become Human?
We may need God to “hope against hope,” to dream the impossible dream, but such freedom involves a leap of imagination, not of religious...
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Uriel
- Jul 8, 2018
- 12 min
The Art of Laughter, The Act of Anger
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...
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Keshet Abulof
- May 27, 2018
- 1 min
Good Grades – Bad Grades
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...
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Shirley Le Penne
- Apr 21, 2018
- 5 min
A Tale of Unexplored Love and Friendship
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,...
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Uriel
- Apr 21, 2018
- 24 min
The Spoils of Paradise
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...
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Shirley Le Penne
- Feb 14, 2018
- 17 min
Would You Erase Me?
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?...
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Uriel
- Jan 26, 2018
- 6 min
Nevo: What’s in a Name?
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...
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Uriel
- Jan 24, 2018
- 7 min
"Carol": Eyes Shut or Wide Open?
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...
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