Erol Araf
Erol A. Araf, M.A., is a Canadian strategic planning analyst and international business development consultant with years of experience in international marketing with an emphasis on developing and managing international projects.
Before consulting, he was National Director of Public Affairs at the CJC and served as Director of National Marketing & Quebec Regional CEO at Canada Israel Securities Limited.
He writes for the Jerusalem Post, CJN, National Post, Le Devoir, Huffington Post [French] La Presse, The Montreal Gazette, Canadian Institute of Jewish Research, Real Clear Politics, Israel Frontline, Jerusalem Post, Journal of Strategic Manhunts and Counter-Terrorism.
He designed and developed the concept for the movie "Mozart in Turkey" which was filmed at the Topkapi Place in Istanbul, Turkey. It won the Golden Rembrandt Award in 2002.
He married Miriam Araf Levi, and they have two daughters: one married in Argentina and the other weighing her options in Montreal.
Before consulting, he was National Director of Public Affairs at the CJC and served as Director of National Marketing & Quebec Regional CEO at Canada Israel Securities Limited.
He writes for the Jerusalem Post, CJN, National Post, Le Devoir, Huffington Post [French] La Presse, The Montreal Gazette, Canadian Institute of Jewish Research, Real Clear Politics, Israel Frontline, Jerusalem Post, Journal of Strategic Manhunts and Counter-Terrorism.
He designed and developed the concept for the movie "Mozart in Turkey" which was filmed at the Topkapi Place in Istanbul, Turkey. It won the Golden Rembrandt Award in 2002.
He married Miriam Araf Levi, and they have two daughters: one married in Argentina and the other weighing her options in Montreal.
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The answers are not as evident as we might imagine. George Elliot's observation in Daniel Deronda might cast a light on the contradiction raging in his soul:
"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account to explain our gusts and storms."
Transformative philosophers, such as Marcilio Ficino and Pico Della Mirandola, were profoundly influenced by the Kabbalah, and modern scholars are beginning to understand and revaluate the role of Jewish Esotericism in Renaissance intellectual discourse and art. This essay advances the working hypothesis that the ethereal embroidery of Jewish mysticism informed many Leonardo paintings under a mantilla of hidden codes expressed in the hieroglyphic language of allegories, symbols, and allusions designed to blend the Infinite with the Finite. For Da Vinci, the allure of Renaissance Universalism and Esotericism, blended with Kabbalistic motifs, constituted one of the most significant sources of his artistic discourse on the disciplines of Beauty.
Transformative philosophers, such as Marcilio Ficino and Pico Della Mirandola, were profoundly influenced by the Kabbalah, and modern scholars are beginning to understand and revaluate the role of Jewish Esotericism in Renaissance intellectual discourse and art. This essay advances the working hypothesis that the ethereal embroidery of Jewish mysticism informed many Leonardo paintings under a mantilla of hidden codes expressed in the hieroglyphic language of allegories, symbols, and allusions designed to blend the Infinite with the Finite. For Da Vinci, the allure of Renaissance Universalism and Esotericism, blended with Kabbalistic motifs, constituted one of the most significant sources of his artistic discourse on the disciplines of Beauty.
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Forever dreaming of El Dorado, pirates plundered and left in their wake a seething bloody cauldron as the survivors prayed for the deliverance of the grave. Thomas Hobbes' description of the natural state of man "No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" perfectly applied to corsairs. There was, however, another story that loomed silently along the edges of history relating to a group of adventurous pirates whose motives were freedom to practice their religion in peace, create an abode where posterity would reside, and wreak vengeance on those who burned their sages alive and expelled them from their homeland: they were the Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean.
The answers are not as evident as we might imagine. George Elliot's observation in Daniel Deronda might cast a light on the contradiction raging in his soul:
"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account to explain our gusts and storms."
Transformative philosophers, such as Marcilio Ficino and Pico Della Mirandola, were profoundly influenced by the Kabbalah, and modern scholars are beginning to understand and revaluate the role of Jewish Esotericism in Renaissance intellectual discourse and art. This essay advances the working hypothesis that the ethereal embroidery of Jewish mysticism informed many Leonardo paintings under a mantilla of hidden codes expressed in the hieroglyphic language of allegories, symbols, and allusions designed to blend the Infinite with the Finite. For Da Vinci, the allure of Renaissance Universalism and Esotericism, blended with Kabbalistic motifs, constituted one of the most significant sources of his artistic discourse on the disciplines of Beauty.
Transformative philosophers, such as Marcilio Ficino and Pico Della Mirandola, were profoundly influenced by the Kabbalah, and modern scholars are beginning to understand and revaluate the role of Jewish Esotericism in Renaissance intellectual discourse and art. This essay advances the working hypothesis that the ethereal embroidery of Jewish mysticism informed many Leonardo paintings under a mantilla of hidden codes expressed in the hieroglyphic language of allegories, symbols, and allusions designed to blend the Infinite with the Finite. For Da Vinci, the allure of Renaissance Universalism and Esotericism, blended with Kabbalistic motifs, constituted one of the most significant sources of his artistic discourse on the disciplines of Beauty.
Forever dreaming of El Dorado, pirates plundered and left in their wake a seething bloody cauldron as the survivors prayed for the deliverance of the grave. Thomas Hobbes' description of the natural state of man "No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" perfectly applied to corsairs. There was, however, another story that loomed silently along the edges of history relating to a group of adventurous pirates whose motives were freedom to practice their religion in peace, create an abode where posterity would reside, and wreak vengeance on those who burned their sages alive and expelled them from their homeland: they were the Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean.