Artist’s rendition of the fifth day of creation: fish and fowl
Fish & Fowl
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Fourth Day of Creation: Artist's Rendition
Artist’s rendition of the fourth day of creation.
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Love at Third Sight: My Dating Experience as a Chassidic Woman
My husband proposed to me on our third date. That’s pretty unusual, even for a Chassidic girl and boy.
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Etched in the Memories of Bubby and Me: ‘Shema Yisrael’
Bubby, who had such trouble articulating any words, would somehow sing along with me. This was the prayer she had learned as a little child back in the alter heim—the old world, the world before the war.
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Fifth Day of Creation: Artist's Rendition
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Welcoming the Torah
Artist's rendition of the Giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai.
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Shema Nebula
First line of Shema with nebulae.
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Community Torah Dedication
A painting of the community Torah dedication at Chabad of Arlington-Alexandria in Virginia, after a photo by Max Taylor, with permission.
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Artist Rendition: The Giving of the Torah
Artist's rendition of the giving of the Torah.
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Torah Dedication in Rainbow Colors
A painting of the community Torah dedication at Chabad of Arlington-Alexandria in Virginia, after a photo by Max Taylor.
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A Lesson Before Hebrew School - Parshat Vayigash
Nancy called my father, complaining that the school van never came to pick up her kids. It didn’t take long for my father to realize what I had done . . .
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Genesis 2:1-3 Silver & Rainbow
Artist’s Statement: This is my painting of the full text of Genesis 2:1-3. It is in Hebrew letters in rainbow colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet. The text is on a silver background.
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Psalm 70
Artist’s Statement: This is my painting of the full text of Psalm 70. It is in Hebrew. It is painted in black and white on white.
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Psalm 109
Artist’s Statement: This is my painting of the full text of Psalm 109. It is in Hebrew. It is painted in white, red, yellow, black, and silver.
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Psalm 143
Artist’s Statement: This is my painting of the full text of Psalm 143. It is in Hebrew letters which are decorated with dots. It is painted in blue, light blue and yellow with black, red and gold.
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Exodus 14:13
Artist’s Statement: This is a painting in black with white and gold. It is my interpretation of Exodus 14:13.
"Moses said to the people, Don't be afraid! Stand firm and see the Lord's salvation that He will wreak for you today, for the way you have seen the Egyptians is [only] today, [but] you shall no longer continue to see them for eternity."
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Women Dance at a Wedding
Here is a painting of girls and women dancing at a traditional Jewish wedding celebration in New Square, New York.
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Genesis 3:1-3:3 in Salmon, Rose, Green, Gold
Artist’s Statement: This is my painting of the full Hebrew text of Genesis 2:1-3:3. It is painted in salmon, rose, pink, gold, silver, yellow and green. It is decorated with speckles and streaks.
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Genesis 3:4–9 Gold and Rainbow
Artist’s Statement: This is my painting of the full Hebrew text of Genesis 3:4–9. It is painted in gold, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet.
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Psalms 44
Artist’s Statement: This is a painting of the full Hebrew text of Psalms chapter 44 in dark blue, light blue, white and gold
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Blue & Red, Chai
Artist’s Statement: This is a painting of chai in red on a blue background.
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Genesis 5:4-5:14, Gold and Rainbow
Artist’s Statement: This is the full Hebrew text of Genesis 5:4-14 in gold, red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, blue, violet and maroon.
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Psalms 20, in Blue & Gold
Artist’s Statement: This is a painting of the full Hebrew text of Psalms 20, decorated with dots. It is in dark blue and light blue on gold with lime green, red-orange, salmon pink and yellow.
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Genesis 3:10-22 in Gold and Rainbow
Artist’s Statement: This is my painting of the full Hebrew text of Genesis 3:10-22. It is painted in gold, silver, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet.
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Genesis 9:5
Artist’s Statement: This is a painting of the full Hebrew text of Genesis 9:5-28 in the colors of the rainbow, especially pastels, on a gold background.
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Starry Shema
Artist’s Statement: This is a painting of the repeated letters of the words “Hear, O Israel, the L-rd is our G-d, the L-rd is One,” in Hebrew in gold on dark blue with silver, white, and light blue.
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Blessing for Lighting Shabbat Candles
Artist’s Statement: This painting is an abstracted depiction of the text of the Hebrew prayer for kindling lights for Shabbat painted in the colors of the sunset.
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Sigal's Chassidic Wedding
Artist’s Statement: This is a painting of a bride, her guest, and her future mother-in-law at a traditional Jewish wedding in upstate New York.
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Cloudy Blue Sky Shema
Artist’s Statement: This is the Hebrew text of the Shema, floating in a cloudy blue sky.
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You Have Broken the Teeth of the Wicked
Artist’s Statement: This is the Hebrew text of Psalms chapter 3 in red and white with black and silver.
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Prayer Upon Awakening
Artist’s Statement: This is the modeh ani prayer, said immediately upon awakening each morning, painted in sunrise colors: blue, orange, red, yellow, silver, gold and white.
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Leviticus Chapters 9 & 10
Artist’s Statement: This is the full Hebrew text of Leviticus 9:1-10:20 painted in many colors on a silver background.
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Psalm 27: Concealment
Artist’s Statement: This is a painting of the Hebrew text of Psalm 27 in shades of silver with red.
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Lech Lecha in Blue
Artist’s Statement: This is the Hebrew text of Genesis chapter 17 in blue, white, gold, and silver.
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Hebrew School
Artist’s Statement: This is a painting of graduation day at a Chabad Hebrew School.
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Colorful Blessing
Artist’s Statement: This is a painting of the blessings for lighting Chanukah candles in rainbow colors, with silver, gold, and white.
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Raise the Light of Your Countenance
Artist’s Statement: This is the Hebrew text of Psalms Chapter 3 in a sunny rose garden.
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The Letter 'Mem'
Artist’s interpretation of a passage from the Sefer Yetzirah:
“He made the letter 'mem' King over water, and He tied a crown to it.”
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The Birth of Samuel
Text of Samuel Chapter 1.
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Psalm 23
Text of Psalms 23 painted with a symbolic valley in the background.
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Adam and Eve
Adam and Eve after they left the garden of Eden.
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Covenant Between Parts
Artist's interpretation of the Covenant of Parts:
[Abram] said: “L‑rd G‑d, by what shall I know that I shall inherit it?” And He said to him: “Take Me three heifers, three goats, three rams, a turtledove and a young pigeon.”
He took to him all these, and he split them in the middle, and he placed each half opposite its fellow; the birds, however, he did not divide.
The eagle descended upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
As the sun was near to setting, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.
And He said to Abram: “Know surely that your descendants shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and they will be enslaved to them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.
“And also that nation whom they shall serve will I judge; and afterwards they shall come out with grea
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Hebrew School Party
Children enjoying a party at a Chabad Hebrew school.
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Public Menorah Lighting
Public menorah lighting in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Psalms and Palm Trees
Psalms chapter one with palm trees in white, black, and red.
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Daily Escape
Sometimes, we feel like prisoners in our own bodies. It’s almost as if we’re hijacked by a force that compels us to act in a certain way, perpetuating a bad habit or acting against our own principles.
We can experience a daily escape. When we feel like our body is imposing a limitation on us—not allowing us to be free of its desires (think food, money, power, etc.)—there is a special prayer that can assist us. When a Jew recites the Shema prayer consciously, he says “G‑d is our G‑d, G‑d is one.” When we desire G‑dliness, He becomes “ours,” so to speak.
When we “own” G‑d—when we tap into the fact that He is our own G‑d—it empowers our G‑dly soul to be free from the desires and compulsions of the body. This is miraculous, and similar to the Exodus the Jews experienced from Egypt.
The Hebrew word for Egypt is Mitzrayim, which shares the root with
the Hebrew word meitzar, or “limitation.” The “great escape” from Egypt
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Phoenix in the Garden of Eden
Artist’s rendition of the phoenix in the Garden of Eden.
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Balaam's Donkey Sees the Angel
Artist rendition of Balaam's donkey seeing the angel.
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Third Day of Creation in Art
Artist's rendition of the third day of creation.
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Honeycomb & Apples
Honeycomb, apples and blossoms: a picture for Rosh Hashanah.
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