Something Beautiful

Ketubbot

This site presents a substantial collection of historical ketubbot, or Jewish wedding contracts. It's been a personal favorite ever since I first discovered it, years ago.

Rabbi of Vitebsk

Here's one of my lifelong favorites, here called "The Praying Jew" but sometimes also known as the Rabbi of Vitebsk, by Marc Chagall (1923 copy of a 1914 work).

Jewish cemetery

I've been searching for the last two hours for just the right photo for today and I think I've finally found it in this -- Jewish cemetery, Worms, Germany. 

Here's another, of a cemetery in Hungary. 

Wrestling ever anew

In recent days I have found the following quotation returning to my mind over and over again --

"I, who am truly no zaddik, no one assured in God, rather a man endangered before God, a man wrestling ever anew for God's light, ever anew engulfed in God's abysses, . . .

-- Martin Buber, Tales of the Hasidim

I need to remember that I too am "endangered before God, wrestling ever anew for the His Light."  It is helpful to know that someone of Buber's stature felt the same.