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Nocturne
Efrat Natan
2005
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Efrat Natan is a performance and installation artist and curator who has exhibited her work in Israel since the early 1970s. Among her best-known pieces are Work on the Roof (1979), Dreamless Sleep (1992), Winds (2002), and White Shirt in the Window (2006). She lives in Tel Aviv.
Let the sun come up today,
Let the morning shine,
All the prayers and plaintive words,
Won’t bring us back to life.
For we whose light is darkened now,
Are covered by the dust,
The bitter tears…
Baruch Spinoza, the Portuguese-Jewish philosopher considered one of the most important thinkers of the early modern period, served as a “countercultural” icon for many Jewish artists and intellectuals…
54. There are two paths toward faith; one is the absolutely true one, and the other is the rational one. The latter changes in accordance with the times. There are occasions when, if there is some…