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It is stated in Genesis:
“Dust you are to dust you shall return’’.
Let us try a different approach:
You have left a world of storms and reached the land of tranquility and peace — a place where there are no hatred, jealousy nor wars.
Lea Majaro-Mintz, 1988

Rhapsody in white and brown.
Sometimes a color is used to denote a conception and its opposite at one and the same time. White, for example, symbolizes youth and festivity — hence the white dress of the bride — but also the color of a shroud, the dress of the dead. In the earthy colors we tend to feel the warm and soft touch of the human hand.
Lea Majaro-Mintz, 1988

There are forms that suggest order and there are forms that suggest disorder, and there are those who spring out of havoc and yet possess the elements of an order that governs nature.
Lea Majaro-Mintz, 1988

There are soft things and there are things that look soft — and there are those who are soft-spoken.
Lea Majaro-Mintz, 1988

In the book of Zohar (a religious work with mystical-metaphysical references) it is said that in a sense it was not God who expelled Adam and Eve from Paradise, but it was rather man who expelled God from his heart.
Lea Majaro-Mintz, 1988

I wish I were a bird crossing over borders, over obstacles, beyond social frames, beyond liabilities that never end.
Lea Majaro-Mintz, 1988

In the struggle for survival even a rag can offer a glimmer of hope.
Lea Majaro-Mintz, 1988

I wonder how Atlas felt when he carried the weight of the world on his shoulders. I prefer to lie on my back holding my feet upwards and to amuse myself by lifting a piece of cloth.
Lea Majaro-Mintz, 1988

The sheet knows best what we go through in our lifetime.
Lea Majaro-Mintz, 1988

Noah's Ark represents the struggle for survival in a world of disasters.
Lea Majaro-Mintz, 1988

*A Few Quotes from Our Sages on the Subject of Clothing: *
"What is the basis for the suggestion [that good] clothes are liked by all? The Talmud says, 'Silverware and g[goldware and clothes' — the last (mentioned) is always the most [liked].''
Mekhilta de Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, Parashat Bo 35
"Clothes you ought to buy on the expensive side; food, for no more than its worth.''
Talmud, Baba Metsi'a 52
"Man should consume food and drink at an expense below his means, but he should always wear his best clothes.''
Talmud, Hullin 84
"Whoever takes little heed of his clothes ends up losing the capacity to enjoy them.''
Talmud, Berachot 62
"He who possesses only one garment, his life is not worth living.''
Talmud, Beitza 32
"According to his clothes is a guest received, but according to his wit is he escorted out.''
Mishlai Yehoshua, "Khidot Menei Kedem" (Fables of Joshua, "Ancient Riddles")
"You are known by your name in your own town, but by your clothes in a foreign town.''
Ibid
"The glory of God is man, and the glory of man his clothes.''
Ibid
Lea Majaro-Mintz, 1983

The sheet of the newly married —
an embodiment of the devilish need in human society to tread on individual privacy.
Lea Majaro-Mintz, 1988

I pinched the clay — a fold was formed.
I pinched again and another fold was born.
I pinched again. That is how the piece of cloth was born.
Lea Majaro-Mintz, 1988

The curtain rises and goes down. The setting changes.
In every chapter of our life, we change.
Lea Majaro-Mintz, 1988

A tent is actually a blanket that has been raised above our heads.
The house is a tent that grew thicker.
Lea Majaro-Mintz, 1988

It is the feminine in me that senses one form clinging to another— I love the contact between close forms.
Lea Majaro-Mintz, 1988

Paris, the apple, and the three Graces.
A competition that brought about a terrible war.
I wonder whether the mythological conception regards female jealousy as the source of evil?
Or was the calamity that befell Troy a result of male's preference for beauty.
Lea Majaro-Mintz, 1988

The fold seems to hide something.
Sometimes there is nothing within — nothing more than air.
This is perhaps the secret of mystery — it seems to exist but actually there is nothing there.
It is less surprising that I found the human being behind the fold, since he stays always within me.
Lea Majaro-Mintz, 1988