Adam and Eve, the first people, the first creature of God. God created them in his image. However, unlike God, they turned out to be less perfect. Already the stone hammer of Cain, their son, became the symbol of human wars. Throughout the history of humanity, some people killed the others out of hatred, jealousy, envy, anger and greed, and one series of wars was followed by the other….
From year to year, from century to century, history followed a spiral path of development. The modern world, with its technologies, communications, the fast tempo and pride in the new values cannot win over the hard and cruel world it has inherited from the previous generations. And, as before, from millennium to millennium the world is balancing between humanity and aggression, compassion and hatred, war and peace…
Love, compassion, harmony with oneself and the surrounding world are the main values of the ancient philosophical teaching of the Jewish wise men, the Kabbalah. During several millennia of their history, the Jewish people have suffered, like no one else, such horrifying events as loss of children and fathers, loss of their own country and homes, slavery and exile. The Holy Land, the golden time of the Kingdom of Israel, destruction of the First Jerusalem Temple, the Babylonian Captivity, the Judean Wars, destruction of the Second Temple, iGalut Galut is the Jewish conception of the condition and feelings of a nation uprooted from its homeland and subject to alien rule, originating from the time of destruction of the Second Temple (1st century of our time) and ending with the establishment of the state of Israel (1948)., coming Home….
For three thousand years, Jerusalem has been one of the most disturbed places on the planet of Earth. For three thousand years, Jerusalem has been the center of the world in different understandings. For three thousand years, Jerusalem has been hoping to become to center of peace, not of war.
In the painting of Boris Dubrov, the Tower of Babylon, the scattered hammers of "Cain", the Babylonian monster and much else are the symbols of people’s unwillingness to understand each other. Until the humankind changes the concept of Cain and Abel, ever new hammers will be formed in the paws of the Babylonian monster, striking the blows on the heart of the humanity.
