{"id":43386,"date":"2018-11-04T19:42:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T17:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=43386"},"modified":"2022-06-01T17:50:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T14:50:53","slug":"creating-in-the-shadow-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/creating-in-the-shadow-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating In The Shadow of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":50634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[708,384,354,463],"acf":{"old_id":"43386","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"85","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Beauty is not truth, but holiness can be beautiful","content":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then Moses said to the Israelites, \u201cSee, the Lord has chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and he has filled him with the spirit of God, with wisdom, understanding and knowledge in all kinds of crafts \u2013 to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, to cut and set stones, to work in wood and to engage in all kinds of artistic craftsmanship\u201d (Ex. 35: 30-33). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bezalel is a rare type in the Hebrew Bible \u2013 the artist, the craftsman, the shaper of beauty in the service of God, the man who, together with Oholiab, fashioned the articles associated with the Tabernacle. Judaism \u2013 in sharp contrast to ancient Greece &#8211; did not cherish the visual arts. The reason is clear. The biblical prohibition against graven images associates them with idolatry. Historically, images, fetishes, icons and statues were linked in the ancient world with pagan religious practices. The idea that one might worship \u201cthe work of men\u2019s hands\u201d was anathema to biblical faith. More generally, Judaism is a culture of the ear, not the eye.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The key to Bezalel lies in his name. It means, \u2018In the shadow of God\u2019. Bezalel\u2019s gift lay in his ability to communicate, through his work, that art is the shadow cast by God. Religious art is never \u2018art for art\u2019s sake\u2019. Unlike secular art, it points to something beyond itself. The Tabernacle itself was a kind of microcosm of the universe, with one overriding particularity: that in it you felt the presence of something beyond \u2013 what the Torah calls \u2018the glory of God\u2019 which \u2018filled the Tabernacle\u2019 (Ex. 40: 35).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Greeks believed in the holiness of beauty (Keats\u2019s \u201cBeauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all \/ Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know\u201d). Jews believed in the opposite: <em>hadrat kodesh<\/em> (Ps. 29: 2), the beauty of holiness. 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