"Arzareth" Oil Painting
Arzareth (Taken from https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1867-arzareth ):
"The name of the land beyond the great river, far away from the habitation of man, in which the Ten Tribes of Israel will dwell, observing the laws of Moses, until the time of the restoration."
Columbus identified this land as being America.
"The name, it has been suggested by Schiller-Szinessy, is taken from Deut. xxix. 24-27, "Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord . . . and went and served other gods . . . the Lord rooted them out of their land . . . and cast them into another land [ereẓ aḦeret] as this day." This passage is made to refer (in Mishnah Sanh. x. 3) to the Ten Tribes (compare Tosef., Sanh. xiii. 12; Bab. ib. 110b; Yer. ib. x. 29c; Ab. R. N., ed. Schechter, A, xxxvi. 108, and Bacher, "Agada der Tannaiten," i. 143). But different opinions are expressed by Akiba and Eliezer—the traditions are rather confused as to the names—whether the Ten Tribes may be expected to return or not, since this point is not determined in the Scriptural verse. One of them takes the words "as this day" to signify that "as the day goeth, but doth not return, so shall they who are cast off not return"; the other explains the words: "as the day begins with the darkness of the night, but turns into day, so shall the darkness of their banishment be turned into bright daylight" (Mishnah Sanh. l.c.)."
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This oil painting is 12" x 16", framed. The idea for this came in a dream, wherein I was in a desolate dystopia ravaged by war--I had the sensation of being hunted or of some force pursuing me. Out of the sky came this being--its body wasn't visible at first, but as it drew closer I realized it was covered by many spheres that were bending space-time around it such that it seemed to be in multiple dimensions at once, only slightly bleeding through to my sight. In the dream I perceived this creature to be the one stalking or looking for me, but instead of continuing to hide I stood up and faced it. It was then that this being's protective 'cloaking' spheres dissipated and I saw for a brief moment what it truly was--a being of immense power, that looked as though it was modeled after the human body, but it was combined with a system of tentacles that enabled it to fly and conceal its 'true' form through some sort of gravitical distortion matrix. When I awoke, I decided to paint this being before I forgot what it looked like. The painting doesn't quite describe the being as it appeared to me, but the feeling and impression it left on me was very strong and carries through in the interpretation. In searching for the correct name, I was intuitively guided through some means to the name 'Arzareth' which to this day is something I cannot truly say as to what it means or why that is the name, what that name represents in the full context of the dream.