What is Faith

Faith is an Art Form (in Hebrew, Yetzira). A wish to be creative (and it has to do with creation, definitely in the Hebrew meaning) meaning: in relation with the ability to create something – not a duplicate, but rather something that wasn’t there before. Faith is an art form. It’s a hard work. It doesn’t only have to do with the gift of talent, it has to do with creating a relationship between the human and the maker, or the creator, so that there will be an ability, through this art form, which is faith, to create a new reality of Coexistence (not of separation). This is basically what we are struggling for.  

It cannot be a gift because this will destroy the basis of the effort, the basis for not wishing to have a “Bread of Shame” (in Hebrew, Lehem Bizayon). Faith is not copying the Higher. It is allowing the Higher to inspire us to create an ecology, or reality, which can hold both -- the Higher (the Creator) and the Create.  For example, one of its art forms, or artifacts, is the Mishkan, the Tabernacle (the structure of it). It suggests that being an artist is not an occupation. To be an artist, is to be a human. A human is an artist of the materials of his life. It is not a speciality for doing something. The people who were involved in building the Tabernacle were everyone. It was the wisdom of the heart. It was the need that gave birth to the talent, which gave birth to this ability to weave it together.  

When an artist is being chosen, it’s not because he has a talent for making things. His talent is Faith, because he is in the shadow of God. This is the meaning of his name --  being in the shadow of God, meaning: he knows where the light is, and what to create, according to the shadow within himself. This is the name, or the type of person, who can build Coexistence.