Saturday, October 14, 2006

Jacob's Blessing to Reuben

Star of David on a painted window and in it Jacob's Blessing to Reuben at Rabbi Meir Baal Haness Tomb in Tyberias. The Hebrew letters are from Gen 49:3:
Reuben, thou [art] my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength.

Jacob's Blessing to Benjamin

A Star of David on a painted window and in it Jacob's Blessing to Benjamin at Rabbi Meir Baal Haness Tomb in Tyberias. The Hebrew letters are from Gen 49:27: "Benjamin shall ravin [as] a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil."

Jacob's Blessing to Joseph

A Star of David on a painted window and in it Jacob's Blessing to Joseph. It is at Rabbi Meir Baal Haness Tomb in Tyberias. The Hebrew letters are from Gen 49:22:
Joseph [is] a fruitful bough, [even] a fruitful bough by a well; [whose] branches run over the wall.