Day 35: Let There Be Light by Liana Finck
Malchut in Hod, Leadership in Glory/Humility
Finck reimagines Creation and the story of Genesis as a graphic novel with God as a woman struggling with love and doubt. It compels us to ask how our relationship with God might be different if we thought of God as a woman? If we thought of God as struggling with insecurities, just wanting to be understood?
What I love about this particular interpretation of the Akeda (the story of the Binding of Isaac) pictured is the footnote where Finck suggests God's motivation for this sacrifice - the juxtaposition of creation and destruction. In her imagining, Finck has made Abraham an artist whose life's work has been about creating art, and the Akeda is imagined as a window into destruction. What would it mean to destroy something we spent a lifetime creating, something precious to us? This footnote casts God as a teacher, a leader, giving Abraham a lesson in creation and destruction that God learned the hard way with Noah and the Flood. How do we teach others the hard lessons we have learned, the lessons that have humbled us and made us commit to doing better?
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