tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24518491.post114917294896035790..comments2023-10-06T06:18:28.701-07:00Comments on Star of David: The Seder Platezeevveezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06608699339778078417noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24518491.post-1150347050932090352006-06-14T21:50:00.000-07:002006-06-14T21:50:00.000-07:00M. Costa wrote that M. Gudemann and other research...M. Costa wrote that M. Gudemann and other researchers in the 1920's claimed that Isaac Luria influenced the becoming of the Star of David a national Jewish emblem by his teaching that the elements of the plate for the Seder evening have to be placed in the order of the hexagram, but Gershom Scholem proved that Isaac Luria talked about parallel triangles one beneath the other and not about the hexagram. [Source: "Hatakh ha-zahav, hotam Shelomoh u-magen-David", Poalim, 1990, Hebrew, pp. 156]zeevveezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06608699339778078417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24518491.post-1149853052511205562006-06-09T04:37:00.000-07:002006-06-09T04:37:00.000-07:00I read on http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/onli...I read on http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/szyk/jewish/71420.htm<BR/>that Arthur Szyk illustrated the haggadah in 1935 and arranged the elements of the plate for the Seder evening in the shape of a Star of David.<BR/>The illustration served as both an attack on the Nazis and a Zionist plea. <BR/>In the middle of the star, In the place of the Maror - Horse-radish(which symbolizes hardships) there's an Egyptian with an armband similar to those worn by the Nazis killing a Jew. <BR/>(Taken from Exodus 2:11)zeevveezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06608699339778078417noreply@blogger.com