by admin-md | Apr 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
Though I began this piece before his tragic assassination in 1995, “Homeland” has taken on the quality of a memorial to Yitzhak Rabin, the late Prime Minister of Israel. The upper windows and the predominant square shape of this piece suggests a home,...
by admin-md | Apr 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
Masada is the ancient ruins of a fort located on the top of a rugged and isolated table-mountain at the southern-most edge of the Dead Sea. After the Legions of Rome destroyed the Second Temple in 70 CE the “Great Revolt of the Jewish People” ended, except...
by admin-md | Apr 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
For thousands of years Jews have affixed the mezuzah, a small box containing passages from the Book of Deuteronomy, to the doorposts of our homes. Often a mezuzah will have the Hebrew letter “shin” on its front, which is the first letter of one of...
by admin-md | Apr 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
“‘Look toward the stars and count them,’ God instructs Abraham, “So shall your offspring be.'” (Gen. 15:5) Since the beginning Jews have gazed at the stars. As shepherds, outside with our flocks, we could not fail to see the majesty of the...
by admin-md | Apr 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
The historic dialogue between God’s word and humankind’s representation of God’s word is, in the Jewish context, the Torah. This concept and my piece serve as a meeting ground between God and man, where the physical and the ineffable meet. The...
