Angels Indicating Spheres, Rancho Mirage (2012)

Michael Shermer, in his book "Believing Brains", speaks of "patternicity": the tendency to find meaningful patterns in both meaningful and meaningless data; and "agenticity": the tendency to infuse patterns with meaning, ... Read more »

Angel Guarding Box System (2011)

A prayer for protection.

Arise-Go up to Beth-El (2011)

From my favorite part of the Torah, the imagery around Jacob, here he is told to go to Beth-El (Jerusalem). You can see him in the distance, near the Bamot (high places) usually a site of foreign worship like a Ziggurat. Beth-El is in the distance. ... Read more »

Blessing for Unusual Creatures (2011)

There is a blessing to be recited upon seeing exceptionally strange looking people or animals, "Thank You G-d, Hashem, King of the universe for making the creatures different." Thus we acknowledge the diversity in the world. This painting i ... Read more »

Chariot Visions (2011)

She looks sort of witchy, I guess as a result of all of the young adult fiction about witches I hereby confess I passed some time reading last summer. Ancient philosophers talk about visionary mysticism, the simplest kind, where one has visions of Go ... Read more »

Darkness on the Surface of the Deep (2011)

From the opening of Genesis when everything was potential: ...when the earth was astonishingly empty, with darkness upon the surface of the deep, and the Divine Presence hovered upon the surface of the waters... . Gen. 1:2

Distant Mountains Distant Empires (2011)

Drummers and Iridescent Angel (2011)

We shall sanctify Your Name in this world just as the angels sanctify It in heaven above.

Fast Water Wine on the Table (2011)

Time rushes past like fast waters, the wine waits on the table and we ask You for mercy.

Go For Yourself From this Land (2011)

Michael Shermer, in his book "Believing Brains", speaks of "patternicity": the tendency to find meaningful patterns in both meaningful and meaningless data; and "agenticity": the tendency to infuse patterns with meaning, ... Read more »

Lauren Lights Shabbat Candles (2011)

For Lauren, who I love dearly.

Light of the Upper Chariot (2011)

From the prayer book for Rosh Hashanah: "We beseech You, in the Holy Name that disseminates from the light of the upper chariot, which is included in its source...."

There is the Unit Circle, from Math Analysis, which is the ... Read more »

Making Noise with Blue Angel under Setting Suns (2011)

The angel sits on the steps in the later afternoon. The sun keeps setting, we keep dancing and making music.

Prayers in Rancho Mirage (2011)

Prayers in the desert at Rancho Mirage for my father during his bypass operation in November 2011. He came through it with flying colors. I love the desert in winter.

Rebecca Waits for Isaac with Water (2011)

Rebecca waits for Issac with Water. She knows the whole story.

Red Mountain Blue Angel Yellow Light (2011)

Blessed be He Who spoke and the world came into being.

Sharp Bright Darkness Reflected by Angels (2011)

The Chariots of the Hittite Empire (2011)

Protect us from our enemies, then and now.

Yellow Shoes at the Edge of the Ladder (2011)

And She is Waiting By the Steps (2010)

And she is waiting by the steps by the pool.

Dancing at Many Days (2010)

Continuing the elements of triangular pyramids of sun and moon representing the passage of time. she is dancing. The cat watches the bird which might be an angel.

Day Follows Night (2010)

Ezekiel's Vision of the Chariot (2010)

Ezekiel describes the Chariot and Throne of God. His prophecy says that God is not only on the mountain, but can be wherever the Jewish people are, even in their exile, God and His throne are with them. These ideas are discussed in Professor Glenn Ho ... Read more »

Los Dias de Los Cielos (2010)

This is a spanish translation of Deut. 11:21.

Luminous Darkness Above the Light (2010)

In the late antiquity someone we call Pseudo Dionysius searched for God in the Luminous Darkness Above the Light. I have imagined this as an exponential function, with the darkness above the curve and the light between the axis and the curve.