Artwork Description:
Reb Bunim’s Lesson
“Every person should have two pockets to use as the occasion demands,” said the 18th century Rabbi Simcha Bunim, “in one is contained the words, ‘For my sake the world was created’, and in the other the words, ‘I am earth and ashes.’” Our human lives are marked by the constant tension between these two poles of experience, between the yesh and the ayin – between the “something” and the “nothing”.