Mel Alexenberg

Mel Alexenberg – Photograph God: Creating a Spiritual Blog of Your Life

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 “Alexenberg’s own spiritual blog was created together with his artist wife, Miriam, to celebrate their 52nd wedding anniversary. During each of the 52 weeks of their 52nd year, they posted six photographs that reflected their life together along with a Twitter “tweet” that related the weekly Torah reading.

The success of this blog gave birth to the book: Photograph God: Create a Spiritual Blog of Your Life and a new blog. Unlike the Torah narrative that begins “In the Beginning,” a blog begins at the end. This “Torah Tweets” blog displays its narrative in reverse chronological order with the most recent post appearing first. The new blog http://bibleblogyourlife.blogspot.co.il was created to reverse the order of the blog posts in this blog to begin in the beginning. Both the new book and blog invite you to explore creative ways to photograph God in all that happens in your everyday life while crafting a vibrant dialogue between your story and the Bible’s story.
Photograph God: Creating a Spiritual Blog of Your Life” is a book by Mel Alexenberg that develops tools for creatively photographing God as divine light reflected from every facet of life. It teaches how to weave these photos of God into a blog that draws on the wisdom of kabbalah in a networked world to craft a vibrant dialogue between the blogger’s story and the biblical narrative.
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Postdigital Narrative on Spiritual Dimensons of Everyday Life ///// “For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp.” (Deuteronomy 23:15) ///// “Judaism does not direct its gaze upward but downward … does not aspire to a heavenly transcendence, nor does it seek to soar upon the wings of some abstract, mysterious spirituality. It fixes its gaze upon concrete, empirical reality permeating every nook and cranny of life. The marketplace, the factory, the street, the house, the mall, the banquet hall, all constitute the backdrop of religious life.” (R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik) ///// “It is not enough for the Jew to rest content with his own spiritual ascent, the elevation of his soul in closeness to G-d, he must strive to draw spirituality down into the world and into every part of it – the world of his work and his social life – until not only do they not distract him from his pursuit of G-d, but they become a full part of it.” (R. Menachem M. Schneerson)///// “If there is a religious agency in our lives, it has to appear in the manner of our times. Not from on high, but a revelation that hides itself in our culture, it will be ground-level, on the street, it’ll be coming down the avenue in the traffic, hard to tell apart from anything else.” (E. L. Doctorow)///// “The first message that Moses chose to teach the Jewish people as they were about to enter the Land of Israel was to fuse heaven to earth, to enable the mundane to rise up and touch the Divine, the spiritual to vitalize the physical, not only as individuals but as an entire nation.” (R. Abraham Y. Kook)

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