A scene from the series The Order of Impurity, oil on canvas, 70x100 cm, signed and dated 2008. A quality work by a respected contemporary artist, currently on display at the Ein Harod Museum is a comprehensive solo exhibition: "The Mind of an Ancient Snake." Twenty years ago, Assi Meshulam began his ambitious and ongoing artistic-literary-theological project - the establishment of the "Order of Impurity": a religious-artistic-philosophical order that offers complex relationships between worship and violence, between paganism, monotheism and secularism, between impurity and holiness, and between a structured Torah and carnal desires. It begins with "Your Enemies," a book that Meshulam wrote in 2005 that recounts the adventures of Your Enemies, a hybrid of human form and canine genes. With messianic fervor and quasi-biblical language, he conveys to his readers the gospel of the new Torah, the saturation In impurity, in physicality and in disorder. In his writing, as well as in the exhibition in which the book was created, there are human and animal elements, intelligence and drive, darkness and hope. An important and respected artist, winner of the Minister of Culture's Peppers Award for 2014 and head of the Art Department at the University of Haifa, Asif Meshulam, Israeli, born in 1975. He is an Israeli artist, associate professor in the Art Department at the University of Haifa, which he headed between 2017-2022. Between 1997-2000 he studied a bachelor's degree in art and archaeology (summa cum laude), University of Haifa. After graduating, Meshulam began creating photographic and video works that deal with body image and self-identity. In the works, the artist appeared with his body distorted by digital means. In 2005, Meshulam published the book "Their Enemies," which served as the basis for the series of works "Order" "The Impurity," which presents morbid images within a pseudo-religious framework. Over the years, Meshulam has participated in many exhibitions, in Israel and abroad, and has presented a large number of solo exhibitions that dealt with the connection between art, religion and worship. His main concern in recent years, in art and research, is polytheistic worship in the history of the people of Israel and the ancient East, including the customs of human sacrifice.