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Beauty and Hanukkah: The Eye of the Beholder in The Twilight Zone and Jewish Art, Study notes of Religion

The concept of beauty and its significance during hanukkah through the perspectives of rabbi meir soloveichik and rabbi sacks. The text references rod serling's quote from the twilight zone and discusses betzalel, the artist of the tabernacle, and the jewish belief in hadrat kodesh, or the beauty of holiness. Part of the friday night lights series sponsored by various families in honor and memory of their loved ones.

What you will learn

  • What is the significance of Rod Serling's quote about beauty in The Twilight Zone?
  • What is the difference between the Greek and Jewish beliefs about the holiness of beauty?
  • How does Betzalel's art reflect the Jewish belief in hadrat kodesh?

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FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS: HANUKKAH EDITION
Rabbi Meir Soloveichik
December 10, 2020 | Part 2 of a Special Hanukkah Series
“Eye of the Beholder:
Hanukkah in the Twilight Zone”
2020-2021 season of Friday Night Lights
is sponsored by the Julis-Rabinowitz family.
This week’s session sponsored by:
Riki & Meir Kreitman and Gail & Jeff Toll, in honor of the nahala of
their beloved grandmother, ןהכה ךורב ריאמ בר תב עלייב רתסא
Debbie & David Sable, in memory of Rabbi Jack Sable
1) Rod Serling:
"Now the questions that come to mind: 'Where is this place, and
when is it?' 'What kind of world where ugliness is the norm and
beauty the deviation from that norm?' You want an answer? The
answer is, it doesn't make any difference. Because the old saying
happens to be true. Beauty *is* in the eye of the beholder, in this
year or a hundred years hence. On this planet or wherever there is
human life, perhaps out amongst the stars. Beauty is in the eye of
the beholder. Lesson to be learned - in The Twilight Zone."
2) (Sefaria)
3) (Sefaria)
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FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS: HANUKKAH EDITION Rabbi Meir Soloveichik December 10, 2020 | Part 2 of a Special Hanukkah Series

“Eye of the Beholder:

Hanukkah in the Twilight Zone”

2020-2021 season of Friday Night Lights

is sponsored by the Julis-Rabinowitz family.

This week’s session sponsored by: **Riki & Meir Kreitman and Gail & Jeff Toll, in honor of the nahala of their beloved grandmother, אסתר ביילע בת רב מאיר ברוך הכהן Debbie & David Sable, in memory of Rabbi Jack Sable

  1. Rod Serling:** "Now the questions that come to mind: 'Where is this place, and when is it?' 'What kind of world where ugliness is the norm and beauty the deviation from that norm?' You want an answer? The answer is, it doesn't make any difference. Because the old saying happens to be true. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, in this year or a hundred years hence. On this planet or wherever there is human life, perhaps out amongst the stars. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Lesson to be learned - in The Twilight Zone." **2) (Sefaria)
  2. (Sefaria)**

4) Rabbi Sacks: The key to Betzalel lies in his name. It means “In the shadow of God.” Betzalel’s gift lay in his ability to communicate, through his work, that art is the shadow cast by God. Religious art is never “art for art’s sake.” Unlike secular art, it points to something beyond itself. The Tabernacle itself was a kind of microcosm of the universe, with one overriding particularity: that in it you felt the presence of something beyond – what the Torah calls “the glory of God” which “filled the Tabernacle” (Exodus 40:35). The Greeks, and many in the Western world who inherited their tradition, believed in the holiness of beauty (Keats’ “Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”). Jews believed in the opposite: hadrat kodesh, the beauty of holiness: “Give to the Lord the glory due to His name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness” (Psalms 29:2). Art in Judaism always has a spiritual purpose: to make us aware of the universe as a work of art, testifying to the supreme Artist, God Himself. 5)