The Divrei Navon Pop Media Series |
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About this Series There is nothing more powerful than experience to bring home
the veracity of abstract ideas; and the next best thing to actual experience
is the vicarious experience of watching a movie or listening to a song. It is our contention that certain popular
media achieves “classic” status because the underlying messages strike a
chord with eternal values. As such,
they offer not just some unspecific experience but one that might rightly be
called “a spiritual experience.” The various pop-media used here are what may be referred to as modern
“Midrash”. Midrash is a creative
device used to impart deep philosophical concepts through a medium that wins
immediate attention by its apparent simplicity and entertaining quality. Midrashim are usually creative
embellishments to stories or situations that are very familiar. The familiarity provides a level of
relative comfort conducive for the audience to “hear” the deeper
message. In this way, the message is
transmitted subtly but palpably. The
objective is to convey an idea that might otherwise be difficult to
understand or perhaps, uncomfortable to accept. Sometimes, it may convey ideas which are
already familiar, yet bring their veracity home in a way that simply relearning
the hard facts would never accomplish. The intent of the essays in this series is not to explain a
particular pop-media piece per se, but rather to utilize its power to
explain Jewish Philosophy. In this
sense the media serves as an articulation of Jewish Philosophy whereby
recondite ideas are brought to life in the “language” of modern man. |
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· Wachowskis’
“The Matrix” - A Mystical
Modern Midrash |
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· DoubleEdgeFilms’
“SPIN” -
On Fallen Angels, Free Will, and Fixing the World |
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· Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway To
Heaven” -
In a Revealed Light |
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· Jethro Tull’s “Bungle In The Jungle” -
A Song On Life |
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· Richard Kelly’s “The Box” -
Man in the hands of the Devil |
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· Marc Chagall’s “Receiving the Law” -
On Fate and Destiny |
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