On the need for beauty in urban spaces By Basmat Hazan and Ruby Namdar Basmat: I like lists a lot. Not necessarily grocery lists, but rather lists from classical rabbinical texts. I feel that a series of pithy statements, often seemingly mundane, is able to challenge our sense
An Animated Guide to the Haunted House Since Leviticus By Sam Holleran They’re usually the site of a bad event: or they’re home to a bad person: In Gothic literature, old memories can’t be sealed off. Locked rooms have
What the Bible has on Springsteen when it comes to toxic domestic spaces by Stephen Hazan Arnoff What’s missing from much of Bruce Springsteen’s recorded work today, and what makes his older work so compelling, can be found in spades in Leviticus 14. Both the Bible and the Boss take on an impossibly big
What cleaning our homes is really all about By Elissa Strauss I like housework and I find it satisfying. I get a frisson of joy from fluffing my pillows, or watching the bottom of the bathtub gleam like a pearl. Making the bed is a more powerful stimulant than my morning
An actor explores how to announce a plague, or its purge By Zvi Sahar And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house. Leviticus 14:35 Our most secure and safe place is our home. Between its four
A dialogue with Leviticus 14, Verses 33 to 53 By Ruby Namdar Leviticus: And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a
LABA fellows Anita Glesta and Zvi Sahar respond to the wild in these video shorts
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A new song about mothering in the wild by Alicia Jo Rabins A note from LABA fellow Alicia Jo Rabins about her song: I am interested in internal wildness, emotional wildness, the secret corners of ourselves we try endlessly to tame – though they may be kept secret even from those closest to us.
Cain and Abel and Us by Karen Loew Mountain meadows are fields. So are rolling prairies, and farmers’ plots. In the Biblical imagination, these grassy, open spaces are places of wildness, where the unexpected can happen. (Think of the untamed forest in Grimms’ Fairy Tales.) In Genesis, fields are