Sparks

Enjoying a brief moment of cognitive clarity at the airport before boarding. Barbara Janoff and I are taking the morning flight (others are returning later tonight and some are staying for another few days).

Barbara says, "I leave here feeling both a part of Israel and a part of the Jewish Community of Amherst. The sense of belonging and identity that has been part of the theme of this trip, and the theme of many of the seekers and teachers we have met, has come to me through this trip."

I want to close with the experience at Linda Zisquit's gallery yesterday afternoon. Linda is both an artist and a translator, creator and a gallery owner, a presenter of other people's art. This whole journey has been an exploration of the act of translation. Words translate to art and pictures; rituals, designs, and nature are in turn translated into words. Just as the Hebrew alphabet evolved out of hieroglyphics, so the pulses and impulses of individuals and tribes have become languages and civilizations. The teachers and artists with whom we've studied have all passionately and confidently -- with Divinely derived authority -- smudged and obscured the line between Torah and art.

Ki tov!!!! And it was good!!!

Boarding the plane!!