Justice and Mercy

In the beginning, the thought arose to create the world with the measure of strict justice; seeing that the world cannot endure, He combined with it the measure of mercy.” (Bereshit Rabbah)

The Midrash establishes a theological concept that a world created on absolute justice, without room for mercy, cannot endure.

The exhibition is constructed as a sequence of moments of judgment.

Levinas proposes an ethics that precedes the law:

“The face is exposed and threatened… yet the face forbids us to kill…

The face is what you cannot kill, or at least, its meaning is to say: You shall not murder.

Photo by: Daniel Hanoch