Everything is foreseen, yet free will is given
The piece was originally titled "Organized Chaos" because, upon finishing it, I felt it lacked composition,only to realize that the chaos *was* the composition. Later, I encountered the phrase "Everything is foreseen, yet free will is given" from *Pirkei Avot* (Chapter 3, Mishnah 15) and felt it was a more fitting title. This phrase brilliantly encapsulates the central paradox of human existence,the tension between foreknowledge (destiny) and free will: • "Everything is foreseen": God exists beyond time; therefore, all things-past, present, and future,are already known and revealed to Him. • "Yet free will is given": Despite God’s foreknowledge of events, human beings possess the complete freedom to act according to their own will, to choose between good and evil, and to shape their own destiny. Simply put: God’s foreknowledge does not compel or determine human behavior.
Liat Segal Menashe
Liat Segal-Menashe designs eyewear by day and creates abstract art by night. Shortly after her children fall asleep, she brings out her paints and canvas and lets her imagination take flight. Liat has been involved in art since childhood. Her artistic style has evolved over the years, but for the past decade, abstract painting has proven to be her enduring passion. Through her paintings, Liat seeks to convey emotion, a sense of things the eye does not necessarily see. For instance, she aims to evoke the feeling of a bloom without painting a flower in the traditional sense. The color pink chose her; every painting she started, whether she intended it or not, ended up featuring pink. This color, in its various shades, has become her artistic signature. She signs the back of every painting with a quote from an Israeli or international song that stirred her heart. words that, in her view, capture the state of mind she was in while painting or the emotion she sought to convey onto the canvas.
Liat Segal-Menashe designs eyewear by day and creates abstract art by night. Shortly after her children fall asleep, she brings out her paints and canvas and lets her imagination take flight. Liat has been involved in art since childhood. Her artistic style has evolved over the years, but for the past decade, abstract painting has proven to be her enduring passion. Through her paintings, Liat seeks to convey emotion, a sense of things the eye does not necessarily see. For instance, she aims to evoke the feeling of a bloom without painting a flower in the traditional sense. The color pink chose her; every painting she started, whether she intended it or not, ended up featuring pink. This color, in its various shades, has become her artistic signature. She signs the back of every painting with a quote from an Israeli or international song that stirred her heart. words that, in her view, capture the state of mind she was in while painting or the emotion she sought to convey onto the canvas.
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