12. "Etzem" (Part One) - Our tree-like, growing "boneframe"

It is so painful to look at. So hard core. But in all of my research I have never found a better way to illustrate the biblical connection between etzem, man's skeletal boneframe, and etz, tree. I share with you the tragic 1978 war photograph from Nicaragua, by Susan Meiselas, not in order to shock, but because it is the single image that burned into my mind the uncompromising reality of how Ancient Israelite Philosophy viewed the world. We sprout. We nourish. We grow. We seed. We wilt. We fertilize. It is the nature of our base, material being. Man as tree. Our vegetative self.

Ethan