A calm winding path through the Holy City of Jerusalem serves as the backdrop for this artwork about Shabbat. Scenery and representational architecture of Jerusalem, including the future Beit HaMikdash (Holy Temple), are juxtaposed with primary textural and graphic elements of the Shabbat. Intricate papercutting of the stonework, ironwork, and local vegetation complete the piece.

Inspired by the beauty of the flowers that bloom in honor of Shavuot.

At Mount Sinai, G‑d revealed himself to the people of Israel with the first commandment: I am the L-rd, Your G‑d, Who took you out of the land of Egypt.

Artist’s rendition of the phoenix in the Garden of Eden.

The intense use of impasto, and fusion between figure and abstraction, makes the picture indefinable and elusive, changing shape, always running away, and at the same time, malleable and untamable like the desire hinted in the gaze of the Tzadik on the day of his passing. When Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai revealed Torah secrets of higher realms, some of his disciples were consumed by the flame, but a continual and indestructible chain descended as fire into the mundane.