Tzvi Bisk, envisioning life in cyberspace -
The task of the futurist is not to predict, but to try to envision achievable desirable futures and to formulate strategies by which we might achieve such futures. We are not speaking about deterministic or inevitable futures but rather about desirable futures determined by us. A futurist is, therefore, a long-term social strategist, trying to construct a future-oriented social science based on a rigorous critique of the history that has created our present as well as idealized visions of human capabilities. It is a value-laden science. It does not deal with what will be, it deals with what should be or could be. The task of the Jewish futurist is to state the self-evident truths that (1) the Jews are part of world developments whether they like it or not and that (2) the future is more important than the past. We cannot live in the past, but we will either live or die in the future. We cannot change the past, but we can create ate a better future.
Tsvi (Howard) Bisk;Moshe Dror. Futurizing the Jews: Alternative Futures for Meaningful Jewish Existence in the 21st Century (Kindle Locations 86-91). Kindle Edition.
Moshe Dror,
“Let us remember that the Hebrew terms ADAM and ADAMAH ( earth=silicon) are basically the same word. “Dr. Rabbi Moshe Dror z”l – Judaism: Into the 21st. Century
From "The futurist bible":
Our goal is to explore new ways to tell the same stories of the Bible into emerging artistic wholes. We want to tell the classical stories in new ways for the generation of the Internet generation for the emerging cyberculture with many of the traditional values and insights of our Biblical worldview.
The word in classical Hebrew for Bible is the term Torah which itself is derived from the Hebrew root word YRH- which means movement across time and space. It encompasses a wide range of ideas that basically means: teaching, doctrine, and instruction.
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In Genesis 1:26, The Biblical narrative writes that Adam was created in our image and in our likeness later in the very next verse in Genesis 1:27 the Bible again uses the words In the image of God.
Of the four words used to describe the creation of Adam all four use the words that mean image and Likeness’.
Of the four, three use the same word Tselem which we translate as image.
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What we are creating is Visual Midrash and a special aspect of this Midrash that is consonant with our emerging world of cyberspace.
Visual Midrash is an ancient tradition that goes back to the very beginnings of the Biblical narrative with the construction of the Tabernacle- the Mishkan by Bezalel in the Bible in the Book of Exodus. The very name Bezalel means in the shaded light the protection and inspiration of God.
We are using the classical Midrash, adding to this the theme of a Visual Midrash and then another overlay of a Cyber-Visual Midrash.
So what we are creating is a Cyber Visual Midrash.
All of this is basically another aspect of who and what a human is and might become-another form of Midrash.
There are as yet few spiritual guidelines for this massive set of changes and this dimension of this massive human experiment.
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Alexenberg, (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/postdigital-translation-genesis-read-breshit-breshet-mel-alexenberg/)
“In the network, God created media systems for creating heaven and earth. When the earth was absolutely empty and dark, God created light and separated between light and darkness (1 and 0).”
We can read the first word of the Bible B’reshit (In the beginning) as B’reshet (In the network). In Genesis 1:1, the Hebrew word et appears twice, before heaven and before earth. “In the beginning God created et the heaven and et the earth.” Since English has no equivalent for the word et that links a verb to a noun, it drops out in translation. et is spelled alef-tav, the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Spanning the full set of 22 Hebrew letters, et symbolizes media systems.
MEDIA SYSTEMS LINKING HEAVEN AND EARTH The media system of heaven, the spiritual realm, is written in the Torah with Hebrew letters that form words. The media system of earth, the physical realm, is written with electrons and protons that form atoms and molecules. The media system of the digital realm returns us to the primeval binary creation of darkness and light, 0 and 1. It is written with the binary digits 0-1 called bits that form bytes. Every blog, website, video, song, and text that you access in the Internet is written with the binary system of the first day of Creation.
Agam
Agam’s visual mission with his characterization of his artistic endeavors: “I don’t pray with words. I pray visually. My works are, so to speak, a visual prayer.” (Sayako Aragaki, Agam Beyond the Visible, Gefen Publishing House, Jerusalem, 1997, P,?)
In her 2013 “Agam Beyond the Visible”, Sayako Aragaki relates a self-perspective of Yaacov Agam: “Perhaps I am a visual rabbi’ smiled Agam shyly, indicating that he does secretly see himself as a spiritual inheritor of Rabbi Yehoshua.” Rabbi Yehoshua Gipstein his father, was a devotee of mystical Kabbalah and the search for the invisible, hidden divinity.