The Worth of Money

Andy Warhol artwork 200 One Dollar Bills has sold in New York for $43.8m–the second highest auction price for a work by the pop artist.

Oscar Wilde famously defined a pessimist as one who knows the worth of everything but the value of nothing; an artist’s job often is to reflect the state of society with hope to effectuate change in society.

Our vapid, pointless and many times inhuman society regards our mutual promise embodied in paper money more than the human being who produces the promise; willing to sacrifice our children, our environment and even our soul for the sake of money has skewed our perception of reality.

In Torah/Teaching artistry is more acclaimed than the art; for example, it is known the women who came out of Egypt at the origin of the Jewish People 3500 years ago had the ability to weave a different picture on each side of the cloth at the same time and the men were able to beat one solid piece of solid gold into an elaborate vessel.

The Cabala relates money to the concept of Kesef/Silver since this word is related to Kasafta/Desire; each human being desires to reflect our light back to the Creator like a pane of glass with a thin veneer of silver–too much silver and the mirror no longer reflects, but only absorbs.