Akedah Story

Moshe Mizrachi

1913

Image

Illustration in three horizontal panels, with Hebrew text running along the border and labeling the illustrations, which include two figures, an angel, fire, and ram at top of page; donkey, trees, and several figures in the center; and two figures in front of a line of ten camels at the bottom. — The caption on the top image reads: The binding of Isaac [is] today; remember his seed with mercy. The top labels, right to left: Abraham; Isaac; angel; fire; ram. The caption in the middle picture reads, right to left: *Stay here with the donkey* (Genesis 22:5). The labels read, right to left: two young men; Isaac; Abraham. The caption on the bottom picture reads: Eliezer, Abraham’s servant, took ten of his master’s camels to bring to Rebecca, and he said to Rebecca, let me drink some water from your pitcher, by the well of water.

Credits

Moshe Mizrachi, Folk Depiction of Akedah Story (Jerusalem: Monsohn, 1913). Courtesy Gross Family Trust Collection.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 7.

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Creator Bio

Born in Tehran, Moshe ben Yitsḥak Mizrachi immigrated to Jerusalem around 1890. Working in multiple media, including lithography, drawing, and verre églomisé, Mizrachi set up a workshop producing ritual and utilitarian art. His most notable pieces are shiviti plaques (decorative plaques bearing the verse “I am ever mindful of the Lord’s presence,” from Psalm 16:8) and mizraḥim, plaques used, often in synagogues, to mark the direction toward Jerusalem.