Contraption maker light the menorah1/14/2024 So what else is here? The source text (and its surrounding context - the story of Joseph and his brother fulfilling a promise to bury their father Jacob in C'naan/Israel), discussion, and making got us into a lot this class - Kislev can be a fraught stretch of year, but is of course also joyful (with Hanukkah greeting us in the last days of Kislev). Hanukkah occurs in Kilsev, and is often what we associate most readily with this month, but its actually appears at the very end of the month. We started with Heshvan, a month with no holidays, and often all Our goal is to take the pulse of/locate ourselves fully within each Jewish month, and bring that into tangible, visual form in our unique artists' books. Each month, over the course of 6 months, we study a verse that in kabbalistic tradition is understood to encapsulate the essence of that particular month. Year 1 of the series was held in collaboration with Congregation Beth Israel, and now in year two we are located at the Atiq studio. Sharing some highlights from our People of the (Artists') Book series. Wow! It can be hard to tell what impact things have once you hit publish, so it's always incredibly gratifying to hear some of the specific ways that this format has been useful. This renewed commitment to documentation is also inspired by one of our Maker Kollel alums, who one day shared the reflection that they had been gaining inspiration to run their own programs by reading the Atiq blog over the course of two years, leading up to eventually applying to be in the Maker Kollel. How do we show our gratitude? With proper documentation! Well, here we are almost two years later, and it becomes ever clearer that we've got to be so grateful for everything we can do in the present, and the future will make itself known when we get there. Beyond that, and almost paradoxically, everything just felt so temporary, so ephemeral, as if we were waiting to get back to gathering and making in person and sharing the fruits of that with all of you online. Figuring out how to move tactile, tangible education and connecting online felt like a task that required basically our full attention. We've been on an unplanned journal hiatus for a while now - basically the whole duration of the pandemic thus far.
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