Absence of God...
Is A Presence Book
9"x 12"
unfolds to 30" x 9"
On October 7, 2024, 1200 Israelis
were brutally massacred and
240 innocent souls, infants through seniors, were taken hostage. I was plunged into a state of questioning.
Where was God?
Many friends and relatives whom I considered to be likeminded souls turned away from me. In fact, I felt that God and the world had abandoned the Jewish people.
Feeling rattled and isolated, I plunged into our Judaic tradition for passages which address dark and lonely times. The text which I uncovered fills me with light and hope, I hope this book passes that forward.
Many cultures have a catastrophic flood origin story. In Torah, Noah’s ark saves human and animal life, swaying for forty days and nights amidst the deluge.
God created a watery expanse above the realms and great waters below the realms. The wonder of these endless expanses of watery masses has a cosmic and immeasurable quality. Between them, God formed the space where our world exists.
The waters saved the infant Moses by concealing him in
an ark amongst the reeds. Miraculously, the baby is
found by Pharaoh’s daughter and raised in their Royal court to become a powerful sage and leader.