Women, water and Kabbalah converge in Jerusalem's Sea of Wisdom exhibition

An exhibition at Jerusalem's Schocken Library, 'Sea of Wisdom: Woman and Water,' curated by Rachel Verliebter, explores the confluence of water, Kabbalistic thought, and femininity. The show features works by artists including Altea Steinherz and Maya Zack, drawing on Verliebter's doctoral research on the phenomenology of water in Jewish mysticism.

An exhibition at the Schocken Library in Jerusalem, titled 'Sea of Wisdom: Woman and Water,' delves into the intersection of water, Kabbalah, and femininity. Curated by Rachel Verliebter, the show is based on her doctoral research on the phenomenology of water in Jewish mysticism. It features works by artists including Altea Steinherz and Maya Zack. Steinherz's piece 'The Limits of Your Longing' uses a newly discovered inorganic blue pigment, YInMn blue, to explore concepts of desire and spiritual renewal. The exhibition draws on Kabbalistic ideas about the separation of waters during Creation and the continuous renewal of reality. Verliebter also references the work of French phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard on material imagination and water in dreams. The show aims to give visual form to myths from the Kabbalah and examine the history of water in a Jewish context.