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Selections from Songs for Schizoid Siblings
I. a is the aether that anchors the ark. b is the blemish that brightens the bark. c is the ...
LightDarkness: A Musical Composition & Graphic Rendering of a Kabbalistic Poem by Abulafia (with Commentary)
“Ohr Hoshech” by Victoria Hanna: “Ohr Hoshech” by Avraham Abulafia: Avraham Leader on Abulafia’s “LightDarkness”: Rabbi Avraham Abulafia, a thirteenth-century ...
What Kind of Fool Am I: Tarot and the Midrashic Art of Divination
If you don’t know you’re on the Fool’s Journey, you’re on a fool’s errand. Recently I did a tarot reading ...
God as Holy Fool: Embracing the Chaos of Creation
God is infinite and contains all possibilities. What we see of God in the world, and what we see of ...
Let Me Tell You a Joke
I know two things for sure about God: God is good, and God has a sense of humor. Once, when ...
Truth in Gay Clothes, or Gagarin’s Space Suit: Part I
A conversation between Jenny Romaine and Yevgeniy Fiks Editor’s Note In the winter of 2021, Ayin’s editorial team connected with ...
The Holy Fool: Editor’s Note
We must occasionally find pleasure in our folly, or we cannot continue to find pleasure in our wisdom. —Friedrich Nietzsche1 ...
Support the Institute of Chingazos—Buy Mustard Bonds Now
I. I was such a green and soft bridge when I started my work at the Libreria De Amplio Margen, ...
Fooled by Holiness
I am a Jewish man trappedin the body of a Jewish man.—Charles Bernstein, “Unready, Unwilling, Unable”1 Let no man deceive ...
The Old Movie House
Every night, the Fool sat with his parents in the old movie house. Family lore held that it was once ...