
Andrew Meit
Andrew Meit has studied and researched in various areas: the imagination, Martin Buber, Judaism, prophets and prophecy, and Ephraim Moses Lilien. In 1984, Meit earned a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies with minors in Mathematics and Philosophy from Stetson University. As a lifelong creative, he is a type and graphics designer focusing on Jewish art and digitally repairing damaged art.
Meit is legally deaf-blind, and has several learning problems stemming from contracting congenital Rubella. He is active in the Independent Living Movement; been on several CIL boards. Throughout his life Meit has striven to turn his disabilities into well-made art that inspires and celebrates beauty and truth.
Off and on for 40 years, Meit has been involved in interfaith services and study groups. He has informally lectured on Buber. He enjoys writing prayers and creating worship presentations.
Although mainly self-taught in calligraphy, drawing and design, Meit formally studied at the Cleveland Art Institute. With the font editor Fontographer, he recreated the well known font GoodCity Modern (a faithful recreation of the Gutenberg’s bible typeface). Over the decades, he produced a digital recreation of the first page of Genesis from the Gutenberg Bible. He artistically colored many of E.M. Lilien’s line art illustrations, created a font based on Buber's handwriting, and recently, he created a new logo for the Florida Orange City Unitarian Universalist Congregation and improved a logo for Applied Jewish Spirituality group.
Meit likes to help repair the world through his art; enjoys deep thoughts, playing with puzzles, and learning about Religion. He currently lives in Plantation, Florida.
baking ḥallah | death of a child | death of a parent | English vernacular prayer | eros | Eulogy | German vernacular prayer | חלה challah ḥallah | meditation | Mourning this Broken World | North America | Openers | Prayers as poems | prayers on behalf of parents | Psalms 67 | קינות Ḳinōt | שויתי shiviti | suicide | suicide awareness | suicide prevention | taking dough | תחינות teḥinot | 18th century C.E. | 19th century C.E. | 21st century C.E. | 56th century A.M. | 57th century A.M. | 58th century A.M.
שִׁוִּיתִי | Shiviti: perceiving the world as an expression of divine Oneness
Contributed on: 30 Jun 2011 by Andrew Meit | Aharon N. Varady | ❧
Given that the Torah forbids impressing our imaginations with illustrations of the divine, some other method is necessary to perceive divine Oneness. One method is found in the verse in Psalms 16:8, “I have set YHVH before me at all times.” . . .