Hanukah

Video Art: A Lamp of G-d is a Man's Soul

An important source of inspiration are
Kabbalah teachings about the "lights",
relating them to the Sephirot
or emanations of the soul.

Each of the modules is constructed
with a special
color scheme and visual dance
which correlates to ideas
about the specific Sephirot.

Light 8
Malchut
Kingdom
ת-נ
Brown

Light 7 Yesod

Foundation
ש-נ
Green

Light 6
Hod
Praise

נ-ר

Orange

Light 5
Netzach
Victory
ק-נ
Purple

Light 4
Tiferet
Beauty
נ-צ
Yellow

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<big><big><big>The Ten Plagues</big> 
</big></big>
 
<big><big><big>The
ten plagues can be interpreted 
</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>according</big></big></big> 
<big><big><big>to
the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephirot">classical Ten
Sefirot model </a> 
</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>in
reverse.</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>Seven
in </big></big><a href="Parsha.html#vaeira"><big
style="font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: red;"><big>Parshat
Va'eira -</big></big><span
style="font-size: medium; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: red;"> <big> </big><big
style="color: red;"><big>וארא</big></big></a></big><big><big><big><big> </big> 
</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>from
Malchut to Chesed</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>(the
modalities of the emotions) 
</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>Three
in the <a style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" href="Parsha.html#bo">following
Parshat Bo</a> 
</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>from
Bina to Keter.</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>(the
modalities of 
</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>the
intellect and beyond) 
</big></big></big>
<big><big><big> 
</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>The
Plagues come to attack and rectify</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>the
bad and evil energies trapped</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>in
the Ten Sefirot of Impurity</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>by
Pharaoh in Hebrew פרעה 
</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>whose
letters can spell הערף 
</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>"the
back of the neck"</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>and
certainly apply to our own</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>יצר הרע</big></big></big><big><big><big> or evil inclinations,</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>which
is why we are called</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>"a
stiff-necked people" 
</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>כִּי
עַם קְשֵׁה עֹרֶף אַתָּה</big></big></big>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<big><big><big>(Exodus 33:3)</big></big></big>
</div>
<big><big><big></big></big></big></div>
<big><big><big>still
dominated by the 
</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>mind
sets and mental slavery</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>of <a
href="kab1.htm">Mitzrayim and the Galut. 
</a></big></big></big>
 
 

 

<a name="blood"></a> 

<big><big
style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><big>The First Plague
- Blood</big></big><big style="font-weight: bold;">  - 
</big></big>
<big><big
style="font-weight: bold;"></big><big
style="font-weight: bold;"><big>דָם</big></big></big><big><big
style="font-weight: bold;"></big><big
style="font-weight: bold;"> -</big><big><big> Malchut</big></big></big>
<big> 
</big><a href="mailto:"><img
style="border: 0px solid ; width: 800px; height: 595px;"
alt="havangel4" src="0000HAVANGEL03W2.jpg"></a> 

<div align="center">
<div align="center">
<div align="center"><big>airbrushed acrylics on canvas 
</big>
30"
x 40" (76 x 102 cm)</div>
</div>
</div>
 
<big><big><big>The
belief that Nature 
(especially the Nile River)</big></big><big><big> 
can be controlled and "engineered"</big></big> 
<big><big>
 embodied the source of the Egyptian 
arrogant confidence and security 
and was
therefore deified 
as a power in and of itself 
and revered as 
the very source of life. 
The bloody "slaughter" 
of this concept 
opened up the pagan mind 
to the presence 
of a Higher Master. 
</big></big> 
</big>
 
<big><big><big>This
arrogance 
can also apply to those 

fine liberal people יפי נפש 

who love to imagine 
they are drinking 

from the cool clear
 
intellectual waters 

of a creed of humanism 
without God. 

The plague reveals the "bluff" 

of what is really behind all this - 

their hot blood of anger, 

particularly with whoever 

disagrees with them. </big><big> 
</big></big></big>
<big><big><img style="width: 700px; height: 700px;"
alt="gif" src="congeal04.gif"></big></big> 
<big><big><big></big></big></big>
<big><big><big><a name="frogs"></a></big></big></big>
 
<big><big><big></big></big></big>
 
<big><big><big></big></big></big>
<big><big><big> 
</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>The Second Plague -
Frogs - 
</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>צְפַרְדֵעַ -</big> 
<big>Yesod</big></big><big
style="font-weight: bold;"><big><big></big></big> 
</big></big>
<div align="center"> 
<img style="width: 900px; height: 436px;"
src="0000HAVANGEL02W2.jpg" alt="havdalah #2" align="middle"> </div>
<div
style="font-style: italic; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"
align="center">
<div align="center"> 
airbrushed
acrylics on canvas </div>
<div align="center">17" x
35"  (44 x 89 cm)</div>
</div>
 

 
<big style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><big><big>The
plague of the Frogs 
attempted to rectify 
the
fallen sephira of Yesod 
caused by the 
the
debauched habits 
of the Egyptians. 
The
frogs' cold slimy bodies 
covered every inch of
the land 
and entered their houses 
and
even the bedrooms, 
"cooling
off" their lust 
and sexual ardour 
which
was their raison d'etre. 
</big></big></big>
 

 

 

<big><a
name="lice"></a> 
</big>
<big style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><big><big>The Third Plague -
Lice - כִּנִים 
 </big> 
<big>Hod
(Acknowledge) 
</big></big></big>
<div align="center"> 
<img style="width: 700px; height: 700px;" src="aafinger.jpg"
alt="finger">
<div align="center"><big>
</big>
<address
style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><big>mixed
materials on canvas</big> 
</address>
<div
style="font-weight: normal; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"
align="center">40"
x 40" (102 x 102 cm)</div>
</div>
<big style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><big><big> 
When
the plague of the dust 
turning
into lice occurred,</big></big></big>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;" align="center"><big
style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><big><big>all
of the magicians 
acknowledged</big></big></big> 
<big><big><big>
that it was the “Finger of G-d” 
אצבע
אלו-הים 
since regular
magic 
can not affect 
such small creatures, 
whereas Divine
Providence 
is in every aspect of
creation. 
The acknowledgement 
of God's mastery 
is the beginning 
of true spiritual service 
and should induce 
a positive humility 
that even if we are 
like dust before
Him, 
we are still
attached Him . 

With the now 
ego-deflated Egyptians 
the dust turned
into lice 
causing a deep
depression, 
  a pseudo
humility 
which sucks out 

a person's blood, 
depriving him of 
his vitality and energy-flow</big></big></big><big><big><big> 
</big></big></big>
 
</div>
 

 

 

<a
name="animals"></a> 

<div style="text-align: center;"><big style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><big><big>The Fourth Plague -
 
The Mixture of Wild Animals - עָרֹב 
 </big></big></big><big
style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><big><big>-</big> <big>Netzach</big></big></big>
</div>
<big></big><big> 
</big>
<div style="text-align: center;"><img
style="width: 800px; height: 626px;" alt="havangel6"
src="WAX011web02.jpg"> 
</div>
<div align="center">
<div align="center">
<div align="center"> 
<big>airbrushed
acrylics on canvas 
</big>27 1/2"
x 36" (79 x 92 cm)
</div>
</div>
</div>
 
 
<div style="text-align: center;"><big><big
style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><big>The fourth
plague 
to harass the Egyptians </big></big> 
<big style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><big>consisted of
hordes of wild animals 
and also snakes and scorpions 
roving all over the country and 
destroying everything in their path. 
That they attacked 
in a "coordinated" way 
like a disciplined army 
was a tikun or rectification 
to the Egyptian's evil Netzach </big></big><span
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style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><big>נצח 
which attempts to achieve 
Victory at all costs 
by deceitfully "orchestrating" 
the events. 
The Jewish use of Netzach נצח
 
is suggested 
in many of the Psalms which begin 
with the words: לַמְנַצֵּחַ מִזְמוֹר</big></big> 
</big><big><big><big>A prayer by the
 
Conductor Orchestrator</big> 
</big></big></div>
 
 
<div style="text-align: center;"><img
style="width: 700px; height: 700px;" alt="wax11" src="wax11.gif"> 
</div>
<span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.75px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline ! important; float: none;"> 
 
 
<big><big><a
name="pestilence_"></a> 
</big></big>
<div style="text-align: center;"><big style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><big><big> 
 
The Fifth Plague - Pestilence - </big></big></big><span
style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 33px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: right; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline ! important; float: none;">דֶּבֶר 
<big style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><big><big>
</big></big></big><big style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><big><big>-</big> <big>Tiferet (Mercy)</big></big></big>
</div>
<big></big>
 

<div align="center"><img style="width: 700px; height: 424px;"
alt="dever" src="0000dogstar.jpg"> 
</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">  
 acrylics
on canvas 
<big><big><big> 
</big></big></big><big><big><big>The fifth plague 
was
a severe epidemic 
on the cattle in the field, 
but came with a prior warning, 
showing the amelioration of 
judgement with mercy and 
the Egyptians who complied 
were spared. 
Only those who did not 
were punished. 
הִנֵּה</big></big></big><span
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יַד י-ה-ו-ה <span
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<big><big><big>(Exodus 9:3) 
Behold the Hand of God 
is on your cattle 
 
This is hinted that 
the merciful name of </big></big></big><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 33px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: right; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline ! important; float: none;">י-ה-ו-ה 
<big><big><big>was changed to 
its <a
href="http://www.chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/380598/jewish/Creation-and-the-Name-of-72.htm">permutation
</a></big></big></big><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 33px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: right; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline ! important; float: none;">ה-וֹיָה 
<big><big><big>which is associated
 
according to <a href="SeferYetzira.html#av">Sefer Yetzira</a> 
with the month
 
of Menachem Av, 
the month of
 
severe judgement.</big></big></big> 
 
</div>
 
 

 
 

<a
name="boils"></a> 

<big><big><big>The Sixth Plague - Boils - 
</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>שְּׁחִין
- </big><big>Gevurah</big></big><big><big><big> 
</big></big></big></big>
<div align="center">
<img style="width: 600px; height: 801px;" src="DIALOG-47-W.jpg"
alt="dialog48"> 
</div>
 
<div
style="text-align: center; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">
<address><big>mixed materials
on canvas</big> 
</address>
<big><big>
</big></big></div>
<div
style="text-align: center; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">24"
x 18" (61 x 46 cm)</div>
<big style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><big><big> 
The
plague of boils, 
unlike the others, 
came
without a mitigating warning 
and
applied to all of the Egyptians 
wherever
they were and 
who
were made numb from the pain. 
indicating
a 
terrible gevurah or severity 
from
which very few recovered.</big></big></big>
 
<big style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><big><big>That
is why we must pray 
daily to be protected
 
from debilitating illnesses 
which
put us into a condition 
where
we are unable to beg 
for
salvation. 
</big></big></big>
<big><big><big> 
</big></big></big>
 

 

<big><big><a
name="hail"></a> 
</big></big>
<big><big><big
style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">The Seventh
Plague - Hail -  </big></big></big><span
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<span
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style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">בָּרָד</big><big><big><big
style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"> - Chesed</big> 
</big></big>
 

<big><big></big></big><a
href="http://dov-lederberg.pixels.com/featured/tzfasser-48-dov-lederberg.html"><img
style="border: 2px solid ; width: 600px; height: 848px;" alt="48"
src="TZ48wb.jpg"></a> 
 
polymer
emulsions on canvas 

 
27 1/2" x 19 1/2" (70 x 50 cm) 
 

<div style="text-align: center;"><big><big><big>The plague of Hail בָרָד
 

was strongly aligned 
with Chesed 

since the Egyptians 
were given a day's warning 

to secure their livestock 
in shelters beforehand, 

any man or beast left 
in the open would die. 
</big></big></big>
<div
style="text-align: center; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><big><big><big>The
Hail was quite 
miraculous and destructive 
in that within the large icy balls 
burned a blazing flame, 
the normally opposing elements of 
Fire and Water 
now working together.  
</big></big></big></div>
<big style="font-weight: bold;"><big><big>וַיְהִי בָרָד וְאֵשׁ
מִתְלַקַּחַת בְּתוֹךְ הַבָּרָד</big></big></big></div>
<big>
</big>
<div style="text-align: center;"><big><big><big>(Exodus 9:34) 
Many of the Egyptians 
followed the warning, 
but this was ultimately 
applied against
Israel, 
since the surviving horses 
were used 
with Pharaoh's chariots 
to attack the Israelites at 
the encounter by the Red Sea. 
 
There is also a lesson for us 
with regards to the 
"selective" destruction 
of the plants: 
only those with strong 
unbending stems or trunks 
were destroyed, 
 by contrast what survived 
were the supple and flexible 
(a trait of tsuvah and repenting). 
</big></big></big></div>
 

 

 
<a name="locusts"></a> 
 
 
<div
style="text-align: center; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><big
style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><big><big>The Eighth Plague -
Locusts - 
אַרְבֶּה </big></big></big><big><big><big>-  Bina 
</big></big></big></div>
 
 
 
<div style="text-align: center;"><a
href="http://dov-lederberg.artistwebsites.com/featured/tzfasser-16-grace-hoper-dov-lederberg.html"><img
style="border: 0px solid ; width: 600px; height: 851px;" alt="locusts"
src="tzfas13wb2.jpg"></a> 
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<div style="text-align: center;"> 
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<big><big> 
"<big>And the locusts went
up 
over all the land of Egypt 
and they chewed 
up all the plants" 
(Exodus 10: 13-15) 
Chewing and processing 
our received phenomena 
is a kabbalah analogy 
to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephirot">sephira</a> of
Bina - </big><big
style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">בינה</big></big></big> 
<big><big><big>This is the ability
 
of intellectual inquiry: 
the approach of the Talmud. 
It allows us 
to explore the universe, 
improve our lives and discover 
the higher moral calling 
of the human family. 
Yet the very same power may 
serve as a tool to rationalize 
every evil practiced 
under the face of the sun, 
and to justify 
every destructive lifestyle or habit. 
leaving
in its wake 
a desolate society 
"The Wasteland" 
bereft of spiritual values 
and absolute principles. 
</big></big></big> 
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<big
style="font-weight: normal;"><big><a name="darkness"></a> 
</big></big>
<big
style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-weight: normal;"><big><big>The
Ninth Plague - Darkness</big></big></big><big
style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-weight: normal;"><big><big> - 
</big></big></big>
<big
style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-weight: normal;"><big><big>חֹשֶׁךְ</big></big></big><big
style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-weight: normal;"><big><big> </big></big></big><big><big><big>- Chachma</big></big></big><big><big><big> 
</big></big></big>
<big><big><big> 
</big></big></big>
<a
href="file:///home/dov/Desktop/ART.KABBALAH/dov2J.html"><img
style="border: 0px solid ; width: 700px; height: 700px; font-weight: normal;"
alt="darkness" src="0000Mystery03.jpg"></a>

<big
style="font-style: italic; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><big>acrylics
on canvas</big></big> 
37"
x 37"  (94 x 94 cm) 
<big><big><big> 
There
was a thick darkness 

in all the land of Egypt 
three days; 
they saw not one
another, 

neither rose any from his place; 

but all the children of Israel 

had Light in their dwellings. 

(Exodus 10: 21-24) 
The Light in the
Darkness 
(of the Mind) 

is the kabbalah analogy 
to the <a
style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephirot">sephira </a>of
 
Chachma- חכמה</big>
</big></big> 
 
 
 
<div
style="text-align: center; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><big><big><big>This
can be understood 
as the ability</big></big></big> 
<big><big><big>
to accept new ideas and concepts 
that emerge </big></big></big><big><big><big>unexpectedly 
from the supra-conscious.</big></big></big> 
<big><big><big>
The arrogant Egyptians </big></big></big> 
<big><big><big>
(and with them many 
"assimilated" Jews)</big></big></big> 
<big><big><big>
with their fixed mindsets </big></big></big> 
<big><big><big>
could not change 
and accept a new input</big></big></big> 
<big><big><big>
and thus remained 
in the darkness.</big></big></big> 
<big><big><big>
</big></big></big> 
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<a name="firstborn"></a> 
 
<big
style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-weight: normal;"><big><big>The
Tenth Plague - The First Born</big></big></big><big
style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-weight: normal;"><big><big> - 
</big></big></big>
<big
style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-weight: normal;"><big><big>בכורות</big></big></big><big
style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-weight: normal;"><big><big> </big></big></big><big><big><big>- Keter</big></big></big><big><big><big> 
</big></big></big>
<big></big><big><big><big></big></big></big> 
<a href="file:///home/dov/Desktop/ART.KABBALAH/dov2Q.html"><img
style="border: 0px solid ; width: 600px; height: 800px;"
alt="havangel5" src="00000WAX05WB.jpg"></a> 

<div align="center">
<div align="center">
<div align="center"><big>airbrushed
acrylics on canvas 
</big>
40"
x 30" (102 x 76 cm)</div>
</div>
</div>
 
<big><big><big>This
terrible plague
 
can be understood 
within the
basic Biblical context of 
"<a
href="http://www.mesora.org/MeasureforMeasure.htm">measure for measure</a>"
 
מידה כנגד מידה 
(How you
mistreat others, 
so will be the retribution.) 
God declared
that 
"Israel is My first-born" 
(Exodus 4:22)
בְּנִי בְכֹרִי יִשְׂרָאֵל 
 
Yet Pharaoh
wished 
to enslave them 
 for all eternity, thus it is fitting 
that God would punish him 
by killing 
all of Egypt's first-born sons. 
</big></big></big> 
 
 
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<a style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"
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Light 3
Gevurah
Severity
פ-נ
Red

Light 2
Chesed
Kindness
נ-ע
Blue

Light 1
Bina
Intellect
נ-ס
Infra-Red

An added input is a meditation
suggested by the great Safad kabbalist
of the 15th century, the Holy Ari (Luria),
which is to visualize in the flames
upon lighting the candles each night
a marriage or "zivug"
of the letter nun נ in the Shamash,
with the last eight letters
of the Hebrew alphabet:
the first night נ-ס,
the second night נ-ע and so on.
All of the eight consecutive combinations
make a two-letter word in Hebrew
(itself a rare occurrence).
Somehow these two letter "words"
do mysteriously appear
in the modules and not because
of any premeditation on my part.

The First Light: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHheFYBfkgU

The Fourth Light: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDzaV_Ksmu0

The Seventh Light: https://youtu.be/YhBRUoDw980

The Eighth Light: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fddvOWqNZe4

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