Gabriel Wolff Gabriel Wolff

Uniqueness vs. authenticity

The question “but did anyone else ever do this or ever think of this or ever want this or feel this and what does that say about me as a person?” seems to hunt some of us to a point where a productive contemplation of a project sometimes becomes hard to maintain. 

I think we might be better off letting go of that question.

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Gender and Hebrew Tattoos

Why we're overly fixated and rigid about your gender, even though last time we checked we were not your obnoxious redneck uncle.

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Timshel

A few thoughts about tattoo of the word "Timshel", John Steinbeck's Hebrew skills and authenticity in translation.

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Diaspora, a traveling homeland

A few thoughts about one of my favourite topics: the Diaspora as a mental state. Being an immigrant. Distances within ourselves.

After recently reading a book by Daniel Boyarín, something shifted me. Something I wish had shifted years ago.

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Passover and what is freedom?

So what is that Freedom we’ll be celebrating in a few days? A different reading of the question that probably has a different answer, each generation.

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Placing a tattoo

I like to start conceptualizing any tattoo project by considering its placement. Here is why.

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Cover up tattoos

A few thoughts and guidelines for you, if you are looking for a calligraphy cover up tattoo

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At home

How Israeli automatisms I was sure I had overcome got their sticky fingers on me, on October 7

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On Deers and Clearings

Take my hand, take my whole life too

For I can’t help falling in love with Heidegger’s concept of being, exploring how human existence is defined by our awareness of our own being in the world.

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