The drawings were expressive. I addressed them to God. Today a girl refused to sit next to me in school. She said she couldn't sit next to a Jew. Rosenbaum, now an artist in Maryland, understands better how art brought her closer to God and to her mother as a child suffering under a post-war Communist regime.
Art unlocks our innate nature to be happy.
Art enables a child to accept herself fully. Michael Tilson Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony, says that music can also bring one closer to God. For Tilson Thomas, the message conveyed in music is similar to poet Walt Whitman' s perception of what nature offers mankind. Judaism is only coherent if you experience God as central to that tradition. They learn to duplicate these things that God created through colors and shapes.