Ten years ago I set out on a journey across the length and breadth of the Land of Israel. The same land that is called by the believers 'the Holy Land'. I tried to understand why it is called that and my project is a sort of answer to that. But there was something more to it: through the colorful, multi-meaning rituals, I discovered that it is possible to bring back the magic to my everyday life. This is how they mixed magic and ancient rituals, music that uplifts the soul alongside silent prayers. Royal clothing alongside designed ceremonial tools. Churches and houses of prayer with their own design style, alongside the expanses of nature, all of these gave the ceremony a sense of 'timelessness' where the concrete is the unimaginable, and the only meaning is symbolic. A place where tradition mixes with innovation, ancient rituals alongside a contemporary longing to go beyond the existing and on the other hand exposure to a whole mosaic of denominations and religions, spiritual currents, social trends and identity politics.
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