Culture and Creativity

• Work that is forbidden by halacha on the Sabbath day. Is there any connection between this and what we define today as “creative activity”?

• The donning of clothing, digging wells, shepherding, cutting and carving wood, casting metals, building bridges and minting coins during the biblical period – what is their meaning?

• Idol worship: Ba’al, Asherah, standing stones, teraphim, ashtorot, the calf/bull, the Moloch, necromancy, and such: what do these things have to do with us?

• The Canaanite movement: What implication does it have for the future of the state of Israel?