{"id":3466,"date":"2017-04-20T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?page_id=3466"},"modified":"2017-04-20T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T21:25:00","slug":"blessed-or-cursed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brianbaruch.com\/index.php\/blessed-or-cursed\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed or Cursed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Entitled: “Blessed or Cursed<\/strong>”
\n(Acrylic on canvas)\u00a0 #Baruch2017<\/p>\n

This whimsical painting embraces primitive stylings\u00a0to innocently capture the biblical iconic\u00a0narrative of the Master Prophet Moses issuing a warnings for potential blessings and doom. These foreboding admonitions were bonded to the “Children of Israel” before Moses’s passing. This symbolizes the end of an incubation era of nationhood — an environment where\u00a0miracles and wonders and interventional consequence were commonplace. Tradition relates that the nascent nation was commonly composed of priests and prophets. However, this young culture emerged out of\u00a0an unnatural environment where the face of Divinity was sprouting with perpetual revelation. To spiritually mature, the Children of Israel were destined to be tempered for “true faith” by entering an environment where wickedness has a chance to\u00a0flourish and the cruel and calculated can oppress the weak. This painting represents a gateway for the covenant nation\u00a0to be tempered by True Faith into a nation that chosen to be “chosen”.<\/p>\n

In light of the litany of tragedies that embroiled innocence over the course of greater history, this episode \u00a0meditatively\u00a0poses to the viewer a poignant question:
\n“What are\u00a0the responsibilities of being “chosen”, and are these truly a blessing or a curse?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Entitled: “Blessed or Cursed” (Acrylic on canvas)\u00a0 #Baruch2017 This whimsical painting embraces primitive stylings\u00a0to innocently capture the biblical iconic\u00a0narrative of the Master Prophet Moses issuing a warnings for potential blessings and doom. These foreboding admonitions were bonded to the “Children of Israel” before Moses’s passing….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianbaruch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianbaruch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianbaruch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianbaruch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianbaruch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianbaruch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3468,"href":"https:\/\/brianbaruch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3466\/revisions\/3468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianbaruch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}