Author: Nicolas Behrmann

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Visualizing- A blessing and a Curse Curse:  Seeing and Identifying with Static Imagery- We loose our Capacities Cause: You shall not make for yourself a graven image, nor any manner of likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.… Read more

Currently, our cellphones effectively operate as “brain extenders,” hooking us into vast networks that aid our memory and enhance our knowledge. Soon, though, the computing functions of a cellphone will likely become an internal brain “add-on” Schiff, Danny. Judaism in a Digital Age: An Ancient Tradition Confronts a Transformative Era (p. 193). Springer International Publishing.… Read more

McLuhan – “The Message of the Shofar” Let there (the Medium) be (is the) Light (Message)  Let There be Light – A Sermon Environment at Hebrew Union College 1970 This sermon was conceived as both a textual sermon dealing with the biblical words “let there be light” and an experiential sermon flowing from the statement… Read more

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Over the years I have been intrigued by the perspectives gained through viewing creativity through the lens of the Jewish historical experience. This interest has been manifested in what I call my Jonah Project, a derivative of what the psychologist Abraham Maslow coined as the “Jonah Complex” Maslow’s use of the biblical Jonah and the… Read more

For the cover photo of The Jewish Photographer, I wanted an image that expressed my overcoming of the doubts and uncertainty of embarking on this journey, and one that vibrated with optimism, not only for this effort but also for the lives of those exposed to this book. A photograph that spoke of the verse… Read more

TJP Without Photography We Would Be Bodies without Souls Oy Veh! The emphasis in The Jewish Photographer is on the ability to catch a moment. This photograph is from the streets of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The split-second opening of the camera lens caught what could be a single frame of a video, or we could… Read more

A proof of concept for The Jewish Photographer is an image from a visit to a horse ranch in Argentina which we visited on the way to Antarctica. The horseback ridder is participating in a competition among the ranch hands using a pencil like object to be placed, if successful, in a circle hanging from… Read more

A key concept of The Jewish Photographer comes from Rabbinic teachings about multiple meanings derivable from a scriptural verse. This teaching within these pages is applied to photographs. I call it “SplitRock Thinking”: The scriptural source was Jeremiah that mentions a hammer splitting the rock, and the Midrash or interpretation becomes pre-approval for expounding multiple… Read more