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October 31 • 27 Heshvan 5774 • Flame pendant and Torah, Rashi and Sforno
Inspiration for Flame pendant: flames bending toward the center flame in ancient Jewish art images of the Temple Menorah.
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October 25 - 21 Heshvan 5774 - Wear Your History - Sefirot Triangle Pendant
Inspiration for Sefirot Triangle Pendant: The Kabbalah's Sefirot
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October 21 • 17 Heshvan 5774 • Conch Pendant of cast-bronze: A special Hanukkah gift
Hanukkah Gift: Conch pendant necklace based on Jewish Art
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August 13 - 7 Elul 5773 – starting the 5th week of consolation - Lattice Pendant of cast-bronze
Lattice Pendant of cast-bronze using the ancient lost-wax method
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August 7; 1 Elul 5773 – Rosh Hodesh–in the 4rd week of consolation; Sukkah Soul pendant Hand of G*d
There are 7 Weeks of Consolation between Tisha B’Av and Rosh Hashanah. This pendant one of the series of pendants based on Jewish art motifs and sources.
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August 1 - 25 Av 5773; within the Seven Weeks of Consolation, the Caves at Lascaux
-from the hands of our ancestors created 20.000 years ago in the caves at Lascaux in present day France
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July 25-18 Av 5773 – in the 7 Weeks of Consolation betw. Tisha B’Av and Rosh Hashanah / conch pedant
The conch shell is an ancient symbol used by many ancient cultures. It is found in images of the Torah Shrine, the niche for the scrolls located on the wall facing Jerusalem in ancient synagogues.
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July 16- 9 Av 5773 – The Fast of Av, Tisha B’Av began at sunset last night
Tisha B’Av commemorates the destruction of both the First Temple, Second Temple, and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.
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March 25 - 14 Nisan 5773 - First Seder
• El Lissitzky and Frank Stella side by side video. •The meaning of Had Gadya
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March 24 - 13 Nisan 5773 - Then came the cat and devoured the kid.
Verse 2 of Had Gadya
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March 23 - 12 Nisan 5773 - Stella’s Verse 1 of ‘Had Gadya after El Lissitzky.
Stella’s Verse 1 of ‘Had Gadya after El Lissitzky.’ One small goat Papa bought for two zuzim.
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March 22 - 11 Nisan 5773 - Shabbat ha-Gadol
Here is El Lissitzky’s ‘Had Gadya’ Verse 1. Stella’s Verse 1 will appear tomorrow.
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March 21-10 Nisan 5773 - Had Gadya
El Lissitzky’s ‘Had Gaya’ and Frank Stella’s ‘Had Gadya – after El Lissitzky’ will be featured leading up to and including Pesach.
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February 25 – 15 Adar 5773 - Shushan Purim
Detail from Esther’s Offering; Esther preparing for her wedding by Lilain Broca
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January 21, 2013 - Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - 10 Shevat 5773
Center window of American Windows, 1977
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December 14 – 1 Tevet 5773 - Rosh Hodesh - 7th night of Hanukkah
More about the Arch of Titus showing the Temple’s menorah:
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December 10 - 26 Kislev 5773 - 3rd night of Hanukkah
A Hanukkah Lamp from Austria-Hungary
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December 8 – 24 Kislev 5773 - First Night of Hanukkah - Happy Hanukkah!
Chagall's 'The Tribe of Asher' - OIl is the main motif.
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December 8 – 24 Kislev 5773 - First Night of Hanukkah - Happy Hanukkah!
Chagall's 'The Tribe of Asher' - OIl is the main motif.
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December 5 - 21 Kislev 5773
Hanukkah Lamp, by the Amsterdam silversmith Harmanus Nieuwenhuys
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December 4 - 20 Kislev 5773: Hanukkah Lamp, maker unknown
From the collection of the Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
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November 9 - 24 Heshvan 5773 - Kristallnacht: November 9, 1938, 74 years ago today
Memorial to the Synagogue in Gottingen, Germany, destroyed by fire during Kristallnacht stands at the site of the synagogue.
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November 6 - 21 Heshvan 5773 American Windows by Marc Chagall
Chagall expresses the creative expansiveness made possible by American freedom and liberty
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October 18 - 2 Heshvan 5773 - This week: Noach
‘Then Noah built an altar to Hashem...'
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October 5 – 19 Tishrei 5773 • Chol ha-Mo’ed, weekdays of the festival / Water ceremony
During Sukkot at the time of the Temple, water was poured on the Altar with a special ceremony.
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October 3 – 17 Tishrei 5773 - 3rd day of Sukkot –Chol ha-Mo’ed, weekdays of the festival
To honor the holiday, here are a few images of Sukkot celebrations throughout the generations.
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September 30 - 14 Tishrei 5773 Erev Sukkot - our thoughts from previous years still hold
‘…and you shall be altogether joyful.’ – Deuteronomy 16:15
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September 22 - 6 Tishrei - Today was Shabbat Shuvah
The Baal Shem Tov on Teshuvah
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September 18 - 2 Tishrei 5773 The Skirball Cultural Center will put up their Sukkah Soul sukkah
The beautiful campus is designed by the award-winning architect Moshe Safdie and is located at 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
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September 16 - 29 Elul - Erev Rosh Hashanah
1 Tishrei is the 6th day of creation when human beings were created.
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September 14 – 27 Elul 5772 / The Shofar
It is an Ashkenazi custom to blow the shofar throughout Elul until Rosh Hashanah.
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September 12 - 25 Elul 5772: In our tradition, 25 Elul is the 1st day of creation.
It is worth posting the Sarajevo Haggadah’s images of creation again, as we did near Pesach.
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September 8 – 21 Elul 5772 Selichot tonight: Preparation for the Days of Awe
The Forgiveness Of God Is Announced In Jerusalem - Chagall
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September 5 - 18 Elul 5772: Traditional spiritual preparations for the Days of Awe in Elul:
In the Hasidic tradition, one devotes the last 12 days of the month to the review of one’s life
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September 1 -14 Elul 5772 – 3 weeks and 4 days until you put up your sukkah when Yom Kippur ends
Elul is a time of preparation for the Days of Awe.
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August 29 - 11 Elul 5772 - 4 weeks until your Sukkah Soul sukkah goes up right after Yom Kippur
It is an Ashkenazi custom to read Psalm 27 from 1 Elul to Hoshana Rabbah, the 7th day of Sukkot.
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August 26-8 Elul 5772 – 4 weeks and 3 days until you put up your Sukkah Soul sukkah after Yom Kippur
Psalm 23 - Chagall
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August 22 - 4 Elul 5772 – 5 weeks until you put up your Sukkah Soul sukkah after Yom Kippur
Three additional chapters of Psalms are recited each day from 1 Elul to Yom Kippur + Chagall's Psalm 11
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1 Elul 5772 – Rosh Chodesh - the new moon: Moses ascends Mount Sinai and stays 40 days
40 days until you put up your sukkah! Your Sukkah Soul sukkah!
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August 15; 27 Av 5772 – 6 weeks and 3 days until erev Sukkot
This week: Re’eh / Ach Sameach / Chagall’s Dance
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August 11 was Shabbat Mevarchin, ‘The Shabbat that blesses’ the upcoming month of Elul.
The Sabbath, Chagall, 1910
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August 8 - 20 Av 5772 – The Zohar was published on this day in 1558.
I am a Dreamer, Chagall, 1912
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August 5 17 Av 5772 A weekly portion of ‘Ethics of our Fathers’
Picasso said, 'When Matisse dies, Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color is....'
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Hope begins in the afternoon of Tisha B’Av
‘Comfort my people, comfort them, says your God.’ Isaiah 40:1
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The Fast of Av, Tisha B’Av
Mourning, Memory and Art’ Writer Richard McBee explores seven paintings that depict the Temple’s destruction.
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The Fast of Av, Tisha B’Av
Mourning, Memory and Art’ Writer Richard McBee explores seven paintings that depict the Temple’s destruction.
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The Nine Days of intense mourning leading to Tisha B’Av started on 1 Av.
The Capture of Jerusalem by Chagall
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July 18, 28 Tammuz 5772: Within the 3 Weeks of Mourning leading to Tisha B’Av
This week: Mattot-Masei - these were their journeys
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We are within the 3 Weeks of Mourning leading to Tisha B’Av:
At Sukkot we are commanded cto ‘be altogether happy.’ Deut. 16:15
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This week: Pinchas and the laws of Sukkot & Chagall’s Feast of the Tabernacles
The momentum gathers in preparation for the Days of Awe and culminates at Sukkot.
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Fast of Tammuz - Moses breaks The Tablets
Momentum gathers in preparation for the Days of Awe
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…when Adar begins, we increase our joy.”
March 4; 10 Adar 5772
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