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SukkahSoul Judaica
These Judaica sets are fine art bronze castings using the lost wax method. The lost wax method of bronze casting was developed in the Ancient Near East in the late 4th millennium BCE, found then both in ancient Ur and Egypt. This ancient process is used today to create fine art bronzes that embody the artist’s touch. In the pieces, you can see the imprint of the artist’s hand molding clay and modeling wax. It is a labor intensive process, demonstrating fine craft with 5000 years of history utilized during the time of Abraham. These are substantial pieces with the weight of small bronze castings.
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I created these Judaica sets with triangular shapes influenced by traditional notions as common as the three Patriarchs and as esoteric as the Kabbalah’s Sefirotic system imagined as three sets of three plus one. The triangular pieces stand on their own as evocative forms and also nest nicely demonstrating the integrative quality of one.
I intend these designs to have a 'new-ancient' sensibility, a fresh way of looking at ancient ideas. I imagine them to feel as suitable to the times of Abraham, Moses and the Maccabees as well as in the 21st century.
This menorah allows for a variety of candle configurations, as well as the shamash in various positions, found in our tradition.
Judaica Menorah
Judaica Menorah
Cast bronze
8 candlesticks are 2-3/4” high, 1 candlestick is about 4” high
Each piece has 3 sides, each side is about 1-1/2” wide
Tray is 11-3/4” long, 3” wide, 7/8” high
This seder plate allows for the various seder plate arrangements in our tradition including the Arizal’s Seder plate and the Ramah’s Seder plate. The Arizal is also known as Rabbi Isaac Luria and the Ramah is also known as Rabbi Moses Isserlis.
Judaica Seder Plate
Cast bronze
6 triangular trays each about 1-3/4” high
Each tray has 3 sides, each side is about 6”
Plate is a hexagon shape, 16” across at its widest, each of the 6 sides is about 8”, ¾” high
Judaica Seder Plate
Judaica Seder Plate
For the serious collector; signed limited edition, museum quality.
Pricing is available upon request by calling 314-610-2560. Lead time is about 8 weeks.
Judaica Seder Plate
The Friday night liturgy has an atmosphere, a metaphor, a liturgy, a language unique in the Jewish liturgical week.
We call the Friday evening prayer service Kabbalat Shabbat, which means "welcoming the Shabbat.” We imagine the Shabbat as a bride or a queen, the Kallah, and we literally greet her on Friday night with the song/poem Lecha Dodi.
Judaica Shabbat/Havdalah Set
The Exile of the week is over on Shabbat. On Shabbat that which is partial finds its whole, so too with human beings, if we are willing to enter all the lost spaces inside of ourselves. On Shabbat, we receive what we are missing.
On Saturday evening, we prolong the departure of Shabbat with Melaveh Malkah, an accompanying of the Queen that tries to delay her departure, as it were, with what she loves the most: stories and songs.
Judaica Havdalah Set
We make Havdalah on Saturday night to mark the separation between Shabbat holy time and weekly not-yet-holy time, but the emphasis is on unity, integration, not separation. The Shabbat, in its welcoming and in its departure, is a unity experience. We usher it in on Friday night, we gently mark its departure with Havdalah on Saturday night.
I created a set of Shabbat and Havdalah ritual objects to emphasize the integrative experience of Shabbat. Instead of a distinct Shabbat set and Havdalah set, I saw an opportunity to design the sets as one to convey the feeling of wholeness.
Each piece increases in height and forms an upward spiral, from the shortest Shabbat candlestick to the highest Havdalah candlestick, to express the fulfilling experience of Shabbat.
7 pieces include:
Each wine cup exceeds the 4 ½ fluid ounce Halachic requirement.
Judaica Shabbat Set
Cast bronze
Pieces range in height from about 7” to 8”
Each piece has 3 sides, each side is about 2-1/4” wide
Dish has a 6-3/4” diameter and is 1-1/2” high including the legs.
Judaica Shabbat/Havdalah Set