The creator's guide

"הרב קוק" - איור של דפנה אנגלנדר About a hundred years ago, during his lifetime, Rav Kook identified a trend: the rising power of...

"הלוויתן" - איור של דפנה אנגלנדר The Book of Job describes a battle between two fearsome beasts: the Wild Ox (שור הבר) and the Leviathan...

In the picture is my dear Aunt Shoshan (Shoshana) during training at a shooting range. When she was 4, her father left her, and she grew...

This is the last remaining picture of two people I knew, whose disappearance is still a mystery I haven't been able to solve. But as the...

Sometimes, to write something new, you first need to learn an ancient language. In recent months, out of the painful reality of the war,...

It is customary to think of cinema in terms of space and time, image and movement. But the wisdom of Kabbalah, in the ancient Sefer...

History, sometimes, ties fates together in a surprising and meaningful way. At the end of the 19th century, two "men of legend" – one,...

A Pre-Prophetic film is not flat. Like the Torah, it is built layer upon layer of meaning. We are called to rise above the revealed...

The Talmud, with its unique pictorial power, sketches a portrait of a man who is both memory and prophecy: Rabbi Yochanan, "the last of...

Western drama, from Greek theater to Hollywood cinema, is built on the foundations laid by Aristotle in his "Poetics." The purpose of...

There is a 17th-century Japanese haiku that two giants of cinema, Sergei Eisenstein and Andrei Tarkovsky, loved to quote in the directing...

One of the central questions facing every creator is: What is the role of art? Should it reflect reality as it is, be an accurate mirror...

When the creator creates a world, he decrees upon himself to remain outside his creation. An invisible screen separates him from his...

​ One of the central questions in the "School for Prophets" is: How do we begin? Is spiritual creation a matter of sudden inspiration, or...

I have always been fascinated by the question: What is the relationship between a director and his location? In most cases, nature is...

Western cinematic language, for all its greatness, is built on rules and narrative structures that have over time become self-evident....

I have already written extensively on Facebook about the surprising similarity between the dialectics of Sergei Eisenstein's montage and...

Almost all stages of creation in the Book of Genesis end with the divine declaration "that it was good." Only after the creation of man does a surprising and different description appear: "It is not good that the man should be alone (לְבַדּוֹ)." Why? One of the surprising interpretations analyzes the word "Levado" (לבד - alone/by himself). In the Talmud, in the tractate Sukkah, when describing two boards attached to each other, the word "Levudim" (לבודים) is used. That is, "L

Last Shabbat, I read an "Open Letter" written by Rav Kook in 1905, a year after his immigration to the Land of Israel. In the letter, he...

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian-Jewish thinker Viktor Shklovsky introduced one of the most important foundational...