Judaica
32 creative works found
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A modern take on the traditional Festival Lights.
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Original Watercolor / Light effect with photoshop There are angels all around us and in our most desperate times we don’t realize how near they are….
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Original Watercolor This painting is very special to me, the Talit (prayer shawl) and bag belonged to my husband z”l(in blessed memory)… / The Lord said to Moses: Speak to the Israelites and instruct them to make for themselves fringes on the corners of their garments throughout the ages; let them attach a cord of blue to the fringe at each corner. That shall be your fringe; look at it and recall all the commandments of the Lord and observe them, so that you do not follow your heart and eyes in your lustful urge. Thus you shall be reminded to observe all My commandments and to be holy to your God. I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I, the Lord your God. [Numbers 15:37-41] The purpose of the tallit, then, is to hold the Tzitzit, and the purpose of the Tzitzit (according to the Torah) is to remind us of God’s commandments.
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Original Watercolor When G-D gave the Torah to the Jewish people / one of the commandments is to keep Sabbath. / Foundation is an inspiration of that commandment. I painted the Torah in front of the Kotel the Western Wall, it is a surviving remnant of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, which was destroyed by Titus in 68 C.E. The Temple, the center of the spiritual world, was the main conduit for the flow of Godliness into this world. When the Temple stood, there was respect for God, for His Torah – and for each other. There was no doubt about God’s existence.
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Original Watercolor / In two and half weeks erev Pesach is already here, time goes so fast. / Pesach (Passover) is the “time of our freedom,” the birthday of the Jewish nation. / I painted some of the food that we use for the Seder (meal). Matzah is unleavened bread that we eat during the eight days of Pesach, as we are not allowed to eat leavened bread during this time. We use wine for blessing for all holidays and Sabbath. /
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Original Watercolor Entrance into the old city in Jerusalem…. / /
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Oil on Canvas / My little grandson who loves his talit (prayer shawl) is exploring his fish in the glass bowl. I like to convey with this painting the spiritual and worldly life in perfect harmony. I added clouds in the background with photoshop, I tried to crop the painting but lost to much of it, so I had to improvise. / /
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This is a sweet and sweeter combination, eaten on Rosh Shoshona, the Jewish new year, to have a sweet new year.
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Photograph & Photoshop G-d said to Abraham, And as for you, you shall keep my covenant- you and your offspring after you throughout their generation. At the age of eight days every male among you shall be circumcised, throughout your generation… / The picture was taken in Herzelia, Israel at my grandsons Brith Milah…
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Photographs & Photoshop Before sundown this Friday I took this picture in my house. For Sabbath it is customary to have Wine and the cup for Kiddush, Challah cover which covers the bread, candle to reside the blessing and prayer book. I took the background picture in Jerusalem at the Kotel (Wailing Wall) /
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Three Torahs
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Rejoice in a new year. Acrylic on canvas 18×24 inches
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Faces of Jerusalem / IMG1085
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The Hamsa (also known as Khamsa) is a hand shaped amulet used for protection by both Jewish and Muslim people. Its name comes from a Semitic root and literally means “five”. The Hamsa is usually shaped in the form of a symmetrical hand, with thumbs on both side, and not in the anatomically correct way. / Judaic Hamsa… / In Judaism, The Hamsa is also known as “YAD HA’CHAMESH” (The hand of five) or “The hand of Miriam” after the sister of Moses and Aaron. It is also connected to five books of the Torah. / Hamsa for protection… / The Hamsa is used to ward of the evil eye and can be found on the entrances of homes, in cars, on charm bracelets and chains and more. It is also common to place other symbols in the middle of the Hamsa that are believed to help against the evil eye such as fish, eyes and the Star of David. The color blue, or more specifically light blue, is also considered protective against the evil eye and we could see many Hamsas in that color or with embedded gemstones in different shades of blue. In Jewish use, Hamsas are often decorated with prayers of a protective fashion such as the Sh’ma Prayer, the Birkat HaBayit (Blessing for the Home), or the Tefilat HaDerech (Traveler’s Prayer). / /
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Faces of Jerusalem / Israel IMG1082
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A Chasidic man walking along a street within the Old City area of Tzfat – which is a centre of Kaballah (Jewish mysticism).
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Mixed media on coloured paper. In 2008 (Jewish year 5769) I was commissioned to do an artwork for presentation to the Mayor of Ra’anana, Israel, on the ocassion of Rosh Hashanah (Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year. A ceremonial horn, called a “shofar” is blown, reminding Jews that G-d is king.). / This mixed media drawing of a shofar being blown is one of a number of drawings I did as preliminary pieces for the final commissioned item. Rosh Hashanah is called “Yom T’ruah” (the day of the shofar blast). / The shofar says, “Wake up from your (moral) sleep. You are asleep. Get up from your slumber. You are in a deep sleep. Search for your behaviour. Become the best person you can. Remember G-d, the One Who created you.” (Mishneh Torah, Laws of Repentance). The expert who blows (or “blasts” or “sounds”) the shofar is termed the Tokea (lit. “Blaster”) or Ba’al Tekia (lit. “Master of the Blast”). The shofar is used mainly on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. It is blown in synagogues to mark the end of the fast at Yom Kippur, and blown at four particular occasions in the prayers on Rosh Hashanah. / The shofar is mentioned frequently in the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud and rabbinic literature. The blast of a shofar emanating from the thick cloud on Mount Sinai made the Israelites tremble in awe (Exodus 19, 20). / In the Temple in Jerusalem, the shofar was sometimes used together with the trumpet. On New-Year’s Day the principal ceremony was conducted with the shofar, which instrument was placed in the centre with a trumpet on either side; it was the horn of a wild goat and straight in shape, being ornamented with gold at the mouthpiece. On fast-days the principal ceremony was conducted with the trumpets in the centre and with a shofar on either side. / On those occasions the shofarot were rams’ horns curved in shape and ornamented with silver breast at the mouthpieces. According to the Talmud, a shofar may be made from the horn of any animal except that of a cow or calf, although a ram is preferable. / A crack or hole in the shofar affecting the sound renders it unfit for ceremonial use. A shofar may not be painted in colours, but it may be carved with artistic designs.
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Watercolor & Acrylics / The Human Aura and Tefillin… / You can actually see how the aura changes its colors during prayers by putting on Tefillin… see photo below… I believe that angels are present to witness our good deeds. I used the colors of the aura as the background. My son hid his face when he saw that I am taking a picture from him… / /
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From my original watercolor… / / Featured in Bagels and Lox – Jewish themed art and writing / / All About the Blowing of the Shofar: / Sounding of the Shofar / / We are bidden by the Torah to sound a Shofar on Rosh Hashanah, as the verse (Bamidbar 29:1) states: And in the seventh month, on the first of the month, it shall be declared a holiday for you, a day of sounding a teruah for you. Rambam (Hilchot Teshuvah 3) writes: Although the sounding of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah is a Divine decree [which is accepted without our having to understand its reason], nevertheless, we can discern a purpose in doing so. It is as if it tells us: Sleepers, arise from your slumber, and those who are dozing, awake from your lethargy. Review your actions, repent your sins, and remember your Creator! Those who forget the truth with the passing of time and who waste their years pursuing vanity and folly that is purposeless and cannot save you – look into your souls and improve your ways and your deeds. Let all abandon the ways of evil and thoughts that offer no benefit. Rav Sa’adyah Gaon writes that the sounding of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah contains ten symbolic elements: 1. Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of the Creation, the day when G-d created the world and became its Sovereign. As it is customary to sound trumpets to glorify a king and proclaim one’s subservience to him, similarly do we show our acceptance of G-d’s dominion by sounding the shofar. 2. Rosh Hashanah marks the first day of the Ten Days of Repentance. We therefore sound the shofar as a means of announcing and warning that this period has begun. It is as if we announce: Those who choose to repent should do so now, and if they choose not to do so, let them not come later and complain about their fate. This too is the manner in which kings exercise their dominion, announcing their decrees to the accompaniment of trumpet blasts. 3. The sounding of the shofar served as a reminder of the revelation at Mount Sinai, which was also accompanied by shofar blasts. Thus, by listening to the shofar and remembering that event, we once again accept upon ourselves that which our fathers accepted upon themselves. 4. The sounding of the shofar serves to remind us of the remonstrations of our Prophets which are compared to the sounding of the shofar, as the verses (Yechezkel 33:4-5) state: And if the listener shall hear the sound of the shofar and not be careful, then the sword shall come and take him. And if he shall be careful, then his soul has escaped. 5. The sounding of the shofar serves to remind us of the destruction of the Beit ha-Mikdash and the trumpet calls of the armies of our enemies. Thus when we hear the shofar, we should pray for the rebuilding of our Holy Temple. 6. The sounding of the shofar serves as a reminder of the shofar of the ram at the binding of Yitzchak, who offered his life to G-d but in whose place the ram was sacrificed instead. We too should stand ready to make our lives a sanctification of His Name and we pray that this serve as a source of merit for us. 7. The sounding of the shofar instills a sense of trepidation and fear that leads us to humble ourselves before G-d, as the verse (Amos 3:8) states: If the shofar is sounded in the city, will people not tremble? 8. The sounding of the shofar serves to remind us of the forthcoming great Day of judgment, as the verses (Tzefanyah 1:14,16) state: The great day of G-d is near, close and quick [to come].. . is the day of [the sounding of] the shofar and the teruah. 9. The sounding of the shofar serves as a reminder of the future ingathering of the dispersed exiles of Israel and to awaken our yearning for it, of which the verse (Yeshayahu 27:13) states: And it shall be on that day, the great shofar shall be sounded and those who have been lost among Ashur shall come [back]. 10. The sounding of the shofar serves to remind us of the resurrection of the dead, as the verse (ibid. 18:3) states: All those inhabitants of the world and those who dwell in the earth, when a sign is lifted upon the mountains you shall see and when the shofar is sounded you shall hear. Provided by chabad.org / /
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With the Hebrew letter Alef… / Original Hamsa for sale…If you are interested contact me by email.. / Alef design available in my Zazzle store on babies and toddlers T-Shirts and Keds Shoes…Take A Look I also take orders if you want a specific writing or letter on the Hamsa…Here is an example what my friend wanted on the Hamsa for her son.. /
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Original for sale..If you are interested contact me by email. /
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