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

pushpanjalid

May 4, 2020
7 min

The Decameron: How to get away with a quarantine. 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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How much is the human life worth to a government?

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 factic...

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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 Ab...

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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 art...

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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 ti...

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A Tale of Unexplored Love and Friendship

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, w...

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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? Wo...

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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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Uriel

Jan 17, 2018
4 min

The Music of Choice

Is music our mirror? Sometimes, music is meaning-making – helping us discover what, and whom, we love, and who we are. “Nashe understood ...

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Uriel

Dec 25, 2017
12 min

The Cat Killed Curiosity?

In a war between the sexes, the main casualty is our humanity. “Cat Person” is a relatable short story, but it risks taking curiosity, co...

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