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This black stone seal, from the City of David in Jerusalem, depicts two bearded men with their hands raised in a gesture of worship, flanking an altar or pedestal. The crescents on the altar or…
The idea for a multicolored prayer shawl (tallit) came to Zalman Schachter-Shalomi when he was meditating on a midrash about God creating the world while wrapped in a robe of light. Schachter-Shalomi…
The image of an ear on this coin may symbolize God as the one who hears prayers, as in passages such as Psalm 34:16, 18, and Psalm 130:2. The image is paralleled on Egyptian stelas that depict…
Six Prayers was commissioned by the Jewish Museum in New York as a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. The six tapestries evoke Torah scrolls or prayer shawls. The shapes in the central part of…
This map of the Temple in Jerusalem made in Safed by a Jewish scribe comes from an example of a “pilgrimage scroll,” also known as an “itinerary,” because they included instructions for visiting holy…
The use of wall niches for Torah scrolls was a feature of some of the earliest synagogues and continues today in Mizrahi communities. This striking faience-tile mosaic structure would have decorated a…
On this illustrated page from a prayer book, written in an Ashkenazic hand, the scribe Simeon ben Naphtali has added, to the prayers said at a wedding, an image of the prophet Elijah (on the left)…
Shabbetai Tzvi was the central figure of a messianic movement that swept the Jewish world in the mid-seventeenth century. Born in Izmir (Smyrna), as an adolescent Shabbetai Tzvi embarked on the study…
Logemann began Kaddish, a series of ten ink, oil, and varnish paintings, in 1993 and completed it in 1996. Each canvas includes a circle with the Jewish memorial prayer in Hebrew and English…
[ . . . May] He lengthen their days and may they be sated . . . recount to YHWH of Teman and His asherah . . .
[ . . . because(?)] YHWH of the Teman, has shown them(?) favor, has bettered their da[ys…
