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Debra Band
Judaic Artwork by Debra Band
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 SECRETS OF CREATION: Mysticism Meets Science and Art

Based on a text by Kabbalist Rabbi Meir Ibn Gabbai

By Arthur Green, Howard Smith and Debra Band

In late spring 2026 Ben Yehuda Press will publish the fruits of a fascinating collaboration with the renowned scholar of Jewish mysticism, Arthur Green, Harvard astrophysicist, Howard Smith, and myself. As Art writes in the preface, “The authorship of this book sounds a little bit like a lead-in to a contemporary Jewish joke: “A kabbalah scholar, an astrophysicist, and a manuscript artist met in a bar.”  Or “What would you get if you combined a mystic, a star-gazer, and a creator of images?”  The answer to either, of course, is the book before you. This collaboration is the product of two years of shared study, a close reading of a sixteenth century Hebrew text.  We read together The Secrets of Creation by Rabbi Meir Ibn Gabbai, a master of the Kabbalah.  We did not know, when we set out to study, that we would write a book together.  But it soon became clear that each of us brought very different insights to the text before us, and that what each of us had to say was of mutual interest to the three of us.  It did not take us long to decide that others as well might find value in what we had to offer.” As I write now, just before Purim 2026, the work is in production. I’ll post more about it, including purchasing information, as the publication date nears. For the moment, let me share a few of my 24 new paintings from this mind- and style-bending project—you’ll find their commentaries soon in the book.

Secrets of Creation, Stage 1 Illumination
Secrets of Creation, Stage 11 Illumination
Secrets of Creation, Stage 16 Illumination
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