Mickie Caspi is an Israeli American artist and calligrapher specializing in Judaica. The owner of Caspi Cards & Art, she incorporates traditional Jewish motifs, Persian and Arabic illumination, and contemporary styles into her original ketubot (marriage contracts), greeting cards, calendars, and art prints. Caspi lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
In this engraving from a Dutch translation of Leone Modena’s Historia de’ riti Ebraici (History of the Jewish Rites), a Jewish wedding in Amsterdam is pictured. Groom and bride stand under the huppah…
The incident was as follows: A woman came before me from a backwater Jewish town weeping bitterly over the sins of her youth, as she had been unfaithful to her first husband before she married her…
How can I hew out a song when the hammer of my senses is coated with rust? How can I play the lute when my hand is ensnared in fetters of fear? For my heart has entered the gazelle’s paved [palace]…