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The Ark of the Covenant is the Israelites\u2019 most precious religious object, produced by the master craftsman, Bezalel, and fittingly placed in the Tabernacle\u2019s inner sanctum (Exodus 26:33-34) – the most densely divine object and space. Yet, some mind-bending traditions report that this center was wholly void. A certain R. Levi reports that \u201cthe place Ark had no measure\u201d and miraculously occupied no space (b. Megillah 10b). And the Ark was entirely missing from the Second Temple, so that when the High Priest was to encounter God on the Day of Atonement, he entered into an utterly bare Holy of Holies. <\/span><\/p>\n

One of the more infamous, baffling possibilities pursued by mid-twentieth century artists was the art of nothingness. Perhaps the most famous example, from the realm of music, is <\/span>John Cage\u2019s \u201c4\u201933\u201d <\/span><\/a>\u2013 a composition in which not a single note is played for exactly four minutes and thirty-three seconds. In painting, we have works like Robert Rauschenberg\u2019s <\/span>White Paintings<\/span><\/i>, shown here, which consist of panels entirely covered in white. Of course, these provocative artists garnered precisely the dismissive reactions that they intended to elicit. Yet for those who listened and looked deeply, these artworks recall how there is no void in the gallery, pulsating with the sublime. The paradox of the Ark that occupies no space, and which is absent from the Temple teaches us that God is to be found precisely in the cacophonous hush of empty, holy things.<\/span><\/p>\n

Illustration, used with kind permission of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation:\u00a0
\nRobert Rauschenberg: White Painting<\/em>, 1951,
\nOil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches (121.9 x 121.9 cm)
\n\u00a9Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
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