Fire, wine, bread –the material elemental building blocks of Shabbat
Idea, sound, suspended animation –less palpable shapes.
Everything else is commentary
[footnote: The term “Aesthetic Judaism” is Jonathan Karp’s from an essay on Moses Mendelssohn’s Kohelet Musar, in Ross Brann and Adam Sutcliffe: Renewing the Past. Reconfiguring Jewish Culture: From Al-Andalus to the Haskalah. It’s future appearance in JPP will appear without attribution]
