The Temple, the Jaguar & the Kung Fu Lesson
This is a post about three paintings: A view of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, a Jaguar E-type sports car,
Shana Tova and family update: We’ve had a fairly intensive summer, mainly focused on celebrating our son Ariel’s bar mitzvah. We had twenty guests from the UK who came specially – family and friends. It was a really amazing, wonderful and meaningful event – or series of events – but now we’re back into the routine of work and school. We’re also definitely enjoying the slightly cooler weather, the refreshing and spiritually renewing atmosphere of the New Year, and Succot is on the horizon. Yeah! Another chance to build our bespoke succah made of IKEA-parts. We’ll be trying to get it started early this year – just so it’s not a last-minute rush. Also, so that you can sleep more easily at night, you should know that I’ve been oiling the wooden supporting-posts for the succah with linseed oil, to keep them fresh and healthy and water-resistant. It’s probably my own way of praying for rain!
Wishing you Shana Tova: a Happy, Healthy, Prosperous, Peaceful and Colourful New Year!
Darius, Lili and Ariel
On the Chabad site you can read a nice description of the significance of Rosh Hashana.
And you may also like my Biblical artwork depicting the cycle of the Jewish Year.
This is a post about three paintings: A view of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, a Jaguar E-type sports car,
I want to try to explain, from my point of view, what it feels like to be living here in Israel in these critical and dangerous times. One of the friends I’ve made through my art, who lives in Oregon, wrote me this: “………How are you in Israel REALLY doing?”