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The Passover Seder is intended to give us empathy when, as slaves, we were given the opportunity to transition to a new way of being. In Hebrew, Egypt is called Mitzrayim. The Zohar is the Jewish book of mysticism. It defines Mitzrayim as “narrow straits”. When God took us out of Mitzrayim, He extricated us from the place of constricted opportunities, tight control, and narrow-mindedness, where movement was severely limited. Passover gives us the time out of place to evaluate our external or physical narrow straits. Perhaps it is financial or health constraints or, perhaps, personal tragedy. What do we pursue? Does our stereotyping, prejudice, or exploitation oppress other people? Do we tak

These preschool kids were shown images of my Seven Days of Creation print series and set loose with magic markers and a piece of paper.

K-8 kids were shown images of my 7 Days of Creation print series and set loose with magic markers and a piece of paper for 40 minutes. I think you will agree that their imagination and creativity is amazing. Simple colors and geometric imagery. Sawyer is depicting God separating the waters above from the waters below with lightning. I love the way he furthered motion with horizontal lines. This student went beyond my images and in a simple pencil sketch to evoke his sense of relationship of G-d to the Earth. This day 5 image is full of energy and movement. The water is flowing, fish are jumping and birds are flying high. This is a mural... two kids working on the same concept. This image w