tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245184912024-03-07T00:24:34.039-08:00Star of DavidThis blog (by Zeev Barkan) is dedicated to the Star of David, its history, its various meanings and usages in different cultures. It includes thousands of pictures of Star of David, six-pointed stars, hexagrams, Solomon's Seals, Magen Davids and yellow badges,and served as a resource for three books and four art exhibitions.zeevveezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06608699339778078417noreply@blogger.comBlogger2724125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24518491.post-81505385846249280952023-01-05T02:25:00.007-08:002023-01-05T20:00:39.369-08:00 Star of David on Friedrich Gauss Tombstone<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjwBV3sQgu-Mo6moTh9iKDbUoC291m6E7VRo86FFy7r-hjLdWjJyFm9df38KSuUg7hDusiRLdXtWmOAKwlpkcIg0oyh1dHYhSIUbyMX1iOgY2ESYEItav4FXeHDbWiKMfer_0v0_eKYZ1H8Wr52ZowOdM20iNUxntRJl0RNwLRstlhF9ebXg/s434/Friedrich%20Gauss%20tombstone.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="300" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjwBV3sQgu-Mo6moTh9iKDbUoC291m6E7VRo86FFy7r-hjLdWjJyFm9df38KSuUg7hDusiRLdXtWmOAKwlpkcIg0oyh1dHYhSIUbyMX1iOgY2ESYEItav4FXeHDbWiKMfer_0v0_eKYZ1H8Wr52ZowOdM20iNUxntRJl0RNwLRstlhF9ebXg/w276-h400/Friedrich%20Gauss%20tombstone.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="text-align: center;">Star of David on Friedrich Gauss Tombstone</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: center;">Source: </span><span style="text-align: right;">atlasobscura.com/places/grave-of-carl-friedrich-gauss</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><p></p></div>zeevveezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06608699339778078417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24518491.post-24338515931385787762022-10-22T09:17:00.000-07:002022-10-22T09:17:03.708-07:00Star of David as Seraphim <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihSySxzCsdoAOgkcCcD_csbi63uXR76B_vGGJOZImHE-uBUNYGJUjLRhSGFjYcx9ZrrOpr40I2ycZSPQQ7Zk_QItsz7TF3vg63ApEziN-EZ-jYgrEal3CuKz4h7DXHNIO60NvT4Uy5W5H_OcESle66qUFfcXgu1mqFqUoJuNHx_8Bz8O-xlQ/s3264/Riga,%20Latvia,%20Gertrudes%20str.,%20library%20LADA.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihSySxzCsdoAOgkcCcD_csbi63uXR76B_vGGJOZImHE-uBUNYGJUjLRhSGFjYcx9ZrrOpr40I2ycZSPQQ7Zk_QItsz7TF3vg63ApEziN-EZ-jYgrEal3CuKz4h7DXHNIO60NvT4Uy5W5H_OcESle66qUFfcXgu1mqFqUoJuNHx_8Bz8O-xlQ/s320/Riga,%20Latvia,%20Gertrudes%20str.,%20library%20LADA.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div style="direction: ltr; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> Nikola Veselova wrote to me: <br />T<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: right;">he proper and accurate name of this symbol known under many different names is actually “the Icon of Seraphim”. To understand why you need to look into the etymology of the word “seraphim”. The picture I am sending you is taken in the capital of Latvia, Riga on Gertrudes street. The building is old and the plate says it is a library “Lada”.</span></span></div><p></p>zeevveezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06608699339778078417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24518491.post-60122293323032105002021-11-04T21:12:00.004-07:002021-11-04T21:12:34.512-07:00Star of David Kaleidoscope<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXXVxO9oeR8ZGEygiWShN55UyXTvJaqrIsu8XLGIgxuipKm6BbBxaqejq4gWSjyCQk3gV-SXVpG_s5YrLFRmeV0MEU02xakDg1fP4jWeImsbBzJzezUcQ-c4sRNY5wMJcjZN89/s1088/Star+of+David+Kaleidoscope.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="838" data-original-width="1088" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXXVxO9oeR8ZGEygiWShN55UyXTvJaqrIsu8XLGIgxuipKm6BbBxaqejq4gWSjyCQk3gV-SXVpG_s5YrLFRmeV0MEU02xakDg1fP4jWeImsbBzJzezUcQ-c4sRNY5wMJcjZN89/w400-h308/Star+of+David+Kaleidoscope.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>zeevveezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06608699339778078417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24518491.post-50732781659359958352021-11-03T00:23:00.003-07:002021-11-03T00:23:35.018-07:00Star of David Ascii Art<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5t6Ad5FgTcBCPGCMIP9vrA50miOn4KGfyQMl16SGdGwiGhWNogiRQrJe3nRIaCXoovFZrZosH9jK0kz9cQynaJsrZk2yoMCkzH7OPqm1VnW3CdH6uiOZkZ_94MxlD7arvOE-F/s701/Star+of+David+Ascii+Art.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="596" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5t6Ad5FgTcBCPGCMIP9vrA50miOn4KGfyQMl16SGdGwiGhWNogiRQrJe3nRIaCXoovFZrZosH9jK0kz9cQynaJsrZk2yoMCkzH7OPqm1VnW3CdH6uiOZkZ_94MxlD7arvOE-F/w340-h400/Star+of+David+Ascii+Art.png" width="340" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>zeevveezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06608699339778078417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24518491.post-28869268976860443992021-08-23T20:29:00.007-07:002021-08-23T20:31:26.178-07:00Holocaust Icons in Art by Batya Brutin<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOyyyn3ieMTaMCJTDGQnRkY7gd0c5DQrQpXU9w8iKeuFubXVY6n5VxtyNtcc94DHZGIN1stmMaJecXnALX-DEF_QImko5jffuEp4vFsBkVqG2QukYzAswEbENCNu9lst34ejX6/s736/2445684516_25e20c1b3b_h.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="516" data-original-width="736" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOyyyn3ieMTaMCJTDGQnRkY7gd0c5DQrQpXU9w8iKeuFubXVY6n5VxtyNtcc94DHZGIN1stmMaJecXnALX-DEF_QImko5jffuEp4vFsBkVqG2QukYzAswEbENCNu9lst34ejX6/w400-h280/2445684516_25e20c1b3b_h.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Published in the book</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Holocaust Icons in Art: The Warsaw Ghetto Boy and Anne Frank by Batya Brutin, 2020</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Fig. 80: Jennifer Gottschalk, Yellow Badge / Warsaw Boy, 2008, digital art, 42 × 59.4 cm. Courtesy</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">of the artist.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Jennifer Gottschalk, a Jewish artist (b. 1975) born in South Africa and living in</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">New Zealand, depicted the Warsaw boy in a particularly Jewish manner. In her work</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yellow Badge / Warsaw Boy, created in 2008 (Fig. 80), [44] the dark shadow of the</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Warsaw boy and the yellow Star of David on his chest are seen. Above the shadow,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">close to the right edge of the work, there is a cut-off yellow Star of David and in it the word Juif (French for “Jew”). On the left side, there is a large yellow Star of David, filling</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">about two-thirds of the work and in it the word Jude (German for “Jew”). The image of</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">the boy, the yellow stars, and the background comprised of 1,700 names of Holocaust</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">victims (to commemorate at least a few of them) of different ages and places, were</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">taken from Yad Vashem’s victim database. Although the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">did not wear a yellow Star of David but a white armband with a blue Star of David,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">through the image of the Warsaw boy with the prominent yellow Star of David the artist</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">tried to represent all the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. By means of the full yellow</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Star of David with the word Jude and the partial yellow Star of David with the word</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Juif, the artist wished to teach us that the Holocaust happened not only in Germany but</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">in other countries, such as France. Through the partial star in the top right corner that</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">symbolizes continuity, the artist also conveyed the wide reach of the event.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Gottschalk employed a technique reminiscent of micrography in ancient Hebrew</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">manuscripts, but instead of words that explain the biblical text while creating shapes</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">and images, she uses the names of Holocaust victims to create her work.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">[44] The initiative to create this work came from Zeev Barkan of Jerusalem, a researcher of the</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Star of David and the author of the Star of David Album <a href="http://magendavidalbum.blogspot.co.il/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">magendavidalbum.blogspot.co.il/</a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">(accessed in December 2014), who suggested to the artist that she create the shape of a Star of</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">David and, employing a digital technique, fill it with names of Holocaust victims. The author’s</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">correspondence with Jennifer Gottschalk, January 2009.</span></p>zeevveezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06608699339778078417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24518491.post-32743994312287784892019-04-17T01:55:00.000-07:002019-04-17T01:55:16.924-07:00Star of David outside the Room of the Last Supper<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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I started it to promote star of David lampshades designed by my son<br />but soon I realized that I have an unprecedented opportunity</div>
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I felt like a Cabalistic collector of pieces of broken vessels.</div>
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Then came the exhibitions all around the world about star of David in Israeli Art</div>
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Then came the books:<br />The first was a summary of this blog [in Hebrew]</div>
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The second a pictorial history of the star of David symbol [in English]</div>
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The third about the Yellow Star in art [in Hebrew]</div>
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The fourth - an online booklet about the star of David in Israeli Art [in Hebrew & English]</div>
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The fifth is a collection of articles binded by the librarians of the Israeli<br />National Library [in Hebrew]</div>
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And all along this long long journey I was helped by hundreds of<br />contributors of materials for this blog. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Jewish Museum in New York has an exhibit titled <a href="https://thejewishmuseum.org/collection/on-view/scenes-signs-and-symbols">Signs
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The exhibit "examines the
meaning of the Star of David within Jewish contexts as well as the various
interpretations of the six-pointed star as a widespread motif in other cultures.
Works on view range from a Bohemian Hanukkah lamp (probably 18th century) that
uses the star as an emblem for this Czech Jewish community to Persian and
Indian Judaica that feature the symbol as an expression of late 19th and early
20th-century Zionist sentiment. A ceramic beer pitcher from the late 19th
century decorated with the star is also on display, attesting to secular use of
the hexagram as a symbol for beer in Europe. Examples of post-Holocaust art are
also featured, including Morris Louis’s Man Reaching for a Star (1952), and in
Dana Frankfort’s Star of David (Orange) (2007), the artist intends the star to
be a symbol that anyone can make the subject of a work of art". <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks to Amir Roggel for telling me about this
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyone who knows the answer is invited to send me an Email to zeevveez at gmail dot com</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My name is Matt -- I find symbols and variations really interesting, particularly when I can't figure them out (and my sources can't either).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I came across this depiction of a Star of David recently. I haven't been taught Hebrew but I can tell that "Zion" is in the center. However, I cannot figure out or find other examples with the 12 other letters around the outside. I thought the 12 tribes would have been an obvious explanation, but I can only make some of them fit, 9 or so, by the first letters of their names. There's definitely no "Asher" in there as far as I can tell (but again, novice here!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In my searches for an explanation I came across your blog and figured you may be just the person to ask. Do you perhaps know the significance of this depiction? It is a commercially-produced object, as far as I can tell. Some of my Jewish friends are stumped...</span></div>
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A sybil was an ancient prophetic priestess who guarded her writings that foretold the future. The emblem on this sybil's necklace is an ancient symbol indicating her mystical powers, though today it is commonly associated with the Jewish Star of David, and with Exodus, and the escape of the Jewish people from slavery. The Libyan Sybil sits contemplating the fate of the African people, after reading the scroll she holds in her left hand. William Wetmore Story conceived this sculpture after the onset of the Civil War, and his letters confirm that he intended it to be a symbolic condemnation of African American slavery: "She is looking out of her black eyes into futurity and sees the terrible fate of her race. This is the theme of the figure--Slavery on the horizon.</div>
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zeevveezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06608699339778078417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24518491.post-25633859193552169222018-01-28T10:51:00.000-08:002018-01-28T10:51:10.011-08:0018th century Haftarah Book with Two Gold Stars of David<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This illuminated, undated codex thought to date from
the 18th century consists of a Haftarah… The scribe and probably the
illuminator of this manuscript was Abraham bar Chizkija ha Lévi. The manuscript
previously was owned by Samuel Gráf of Csakatorn and by Anton Kohn of Zagreb,
who had it in his possession around 1858. A third owner was Moses Issachar, son
of Isaac of Schleining. It is now in the collections of the Slovak National
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zeevveezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06608699339778078417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24518491.post-90298532100637482922017-10-31T10:04:00.000-07:002017-10-31T10:04:05.358-07:00Magen David in Turkish art<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Türk sanatında altı köşeli yıldız : Mühr-i
Süleyman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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İstanbul : Kitabevi, 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">please send me a review of this book </span></div>
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Windows with Solomon Seals or Stars of David </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dr. J.J. Hirsh in his article The Hexagram (The
Shekel, vol. 14, no. 3, 1981) mentions that "Were it not for the
Encyclopedia of</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Freemasonry, the "Jewish Connection"
to the Hexagrams on the breweries and taverns of Germany would</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">have
never surfaced. The last paragraph under Seal of Solomon states":</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Among the old Kabbalistic Hebrews, the Seal of
Solomon was, as a talisman, of course deemed to be a sure preventive against
the danger of fire. The more modem Jews, still believing in its talismanic
virtues, placed it as a safeguard on their houses and on their breweries,
because they were especially liable to the danger of fire. The common people, seeing
this figure affixed always to Jewish brew-houses, mistook it for a sign, and in
time, in Upper Germany, the hexagon, or Seal of Solomon, was adopted by German
innkeepers as the sign of a beer-house, just as the chequers have been adopted
in England, though with a different history, as the sign of a tavern". </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The lantern here represented, which is constructed
of wood, and painted green, red, white, and blue, is called tureiya (the Arabic
name of the Pleiades), and, together with the frame above, from which six lamps
are suspended, and which is termed khatim Suleyman (or Solomons seal), composes
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you happen to know anything about this seal please send me a comment</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's an attempt by <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">SalvationJourney.com </span>to understand this seal:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hebrew tetragrammaton ("four letters") יהוה (Yod Heh Vav Heh), which was transliterated into Roman script as Y H W H.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The actual name of God is Yehoshuah and He appeared in the flesh as Yeshuah / Jesus. It appears at the top of the image as you know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">You have ten stars which could represent the ten lost tribes of Israel. You have a lion which is the tribe of Judah also had the keys to the temple and the lion is above the number X as in ten tribes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"> The bird has the scales of justice and could represent judgement. Not sure about the number VII. Was there seven years of plagues?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The sun image could be the spirit of God that was in the temple behind the veil where only the high priest could enter once a year. The internal image could represent the ark of the covenant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I could go on by everything is really a guess on my part.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Another attempt by <span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-weight: bold; text-align: right; white-space: nowrap;">ANDREW NOBLE:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">This looks like a <span class="il">seal</span> for a Kabbalistic occult society, possibly from the 17th through to 19th Centuries. Explore the works of Raymond Lully, Cornelis Aggripa and Eliphas Levi as the works of these authors will shed more light on the attributions of the <span class="il">seal</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The design is based on the tenfold sephra of the tree of life. The lion holds the key to the tenfold structure and this is highlighted by the Roman numeral, X. Only the most persistent initiate can access the multifold knowledge encoded in the tree. Ten stars hang above the three pillars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The lion with key on the door of the Bank of England <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=iw&q=https://goo.gl/f9aD2e&source=gmail&ust=1503850001943000&usg=AFQjCNGzWhObk2Ct9siGNgKNODNMMaMwUg" href="https://goo.gl/f9aD2e" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/f9aD2e</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Seven stairs ascend to the 'heart center'. The dove holds the scales next to the Roman numeral VII. The initiate would need to be fully grounded and aware of their own nature to complete the ascent. Thoth holding the scales would be the equivalent Egyptian attribution. Seven has a long association with magic and time - <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=iw&q=http://www.betemunah.org/seven.html&source=gmail&ust=1503850001943000&usg=AFQjCNEE7V3NdOzWrBlUJS3sGPdz9QY3-Q" href="http://www.betemunah.org/seven.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.betemunah.org/seven<wbr></wbr>.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Star of David in this attribution represents the human personality of man and three represents his spiritual nature. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The twelve squares represent the threefold dimensions of the four elements and the twelve houses of the zodiac. In numerology, 1+2=3. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The chain is called the abyss and seperates the archetypal world - one, the dynamic aspect of one being two and the creative world - three being the joining of the father and the mother in generative union. This is the abstract idea of the 'god force', This is the 'burning bush' encountered by Moses on the summit, 3 on top of seven. Four to nine represents the formative world where the intellectual image is built and finally, number ten is the material world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Above the centre pillar the name of God is embellished, YHVH in Hebrew.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">This knowledge is the 'true ark' carried out of Egypt by the Hebrews.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">For a full appreciation of this knowledge, search for and down The Book of Thoth by Alister Crowley.</span></div>
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I just got this email in Hebrew and translated it for you:</div>
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Thank you very much, the second response is coming a little closer but for the time being</div>
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I received the opinion of an expert historian familiar with such questions</div>
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Professor Falk Wiesenthal of the University of Düsseldorf identified the seal</div>
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the 19th century. All symbols are of Freemasonry. Temple of Solomon</div>
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The High Priest's Afod Shield</div>
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Attached are photographs of similar Masonic symbols</div>
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For comparison</div>
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With regards to peace</div>
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Reuven Frankenstein</div>
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zeevveezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06608699339778078417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24518491.post-70172155272553762692016-07-26T04:05:00.001-07:002016-07-26T04:05:58.439-07:00The Star of David and the Menorah<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Magen David and the Menorah (like also the Ten Commandments, the map
of Israel, the Israeli flag, the Western Wall) are synonymous symbols that
competed in the past and compete also nowadays on the representation of the
Jewish nation, Zionism and the State of Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until the destruction of the Second Temple by the year of 70 C.E. the
Menorah served as tool of worship. Since then it serves as symbol to the
destruction of the Second Temple, to the holocaust, and to the revival of
Israel. The Magen David serves also, in the form of the yellow patch, as symbol
to the holocaust, and, in center the Israeli flag, to the revival of the Jewish
Nation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The<span class="keyword"> Menorah</span> symbolizes the creation of the
world in seven days; the central candle symbolizes the seventh Day. The Magen
David also symbolizes (among other things) the creation of the world in seven
days, while its invisible center symbolizes the seventh Day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the Menorah were 22 cups representing the alphabet characters. Nethaniel
Yaakov Daniel from Tel Aviv discovered these 22 characters recently in the
shape of the Magen David.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since the Magen David and the Menorah symbolize similar things no wonder
they were competitors. On the other hand, since it is hard to decide whom to
use, there is no wonder that people decide "to go for sure" and to
use them both.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prominent example to the competition between the Magen David and the
Menorah in the generation of the decision makers we will be able to find in the
discussions of the committee of the flag and the symbol by the year of 1948. In
the Course of time indeed the Menorah was chosen to symbolize the state, but
during the discussions rose number of times offers to introduce along side also
the Magen David (that found its way to the center of the Israeli flag).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The controversy in the Jewish tradition concerning the source of the
Magen David proves how much it was important to the Israeli nation to decide
which of the two symbols was more important. The acceptable version is indeed
that king David used a shield carrying upon it a Magen David, but there were
during history important leaders who claimed that on the Shield of David was
the form of the Menorah. For instance: Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Azulai in his
book "Midbar Kedamot", Yitzhak Arama in his book "Akedat
Yitzhak", Rabbi Zvi Elimelach Shapira in his book "Bney Isaskhar
" and Rabbi Hayim Elazar Shapira in his book "Divrey Torah". The
Menorah was during generations the senior representative of our nation -
archaeologists discovered in their excavations many more Menorahs than Magen
Davids… Nowadays it seems as if the controversy was ended, and the Magen David
takes the first place as our national symbol. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An Interesting position in this controversy has researcher Uri Ofir that
proves in his study on the Jewish source of the Magen David according to
traditional sources that these two symbols equal in their importance. He shows
that the Magen Davids held the candles in the Tabernacle Menorah after the
Exodus. Since the lamp in its entirety was not made by hand it must have been
made by the Lord in person - so that the Lord is responsible both to the form
of the Magen David and to the form of the.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Number of examples to the partnership of these symbols: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In synagogues and in Jewish cemeteries the Magen Davids and the Menorah
appear frequently together. These two symbols appear frequently together also
on Happy New Year and on Ex- Libris in the years before the establishment of
the state of Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Magen David and Menorah appear together
in the Rali Museum in Caesarea from October 1993 above marble sculpture of
People that contributed to establish the state: Hertzel, Weitzmann, Arthur
James Balfour, Harry Truman and David Ben Gurion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the holocaust memorial of Estonia, there is a Magen David carved on
one side and a Menorah on the other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the holocaust memorial of Bialistok, there is a Magen David formed by
pebbles alongside a tombstone with a Menorah. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Menorah and a yellow Magen David (in memory of the yellow patch?)
appear on the Memorial in Herzl Mount for the Jewish fighters in the Polish
Army who lost their lives in WWII. In addition, there’s in Herzl Mount another
large statue of a Menorah on a Magen David.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Menorah and a Magen David are the elements that compose the logo of the
World Zionist Congress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On a JNF postage stamp (“for Torah and certificate”) these two symbols
appear along with the flag.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nazi Propaganda postcard shows President Roosevelt holding Menorah and a
Magen David to show how he backs the Jews and identifies with them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Magen David and the Menorah were prevalent motives in Bezalel art at
the start of previous century. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artist Chanoch Ben Dov erected in Maalot a big statue of a Menorah with
a Magen David at its bottom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the 5 November 2007 the sculpture David’s Menorah by artist David
Soussanna was placed in Jerusalem near the Knesset.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a number of works by Aviva Beigel appear Israeli identity symbols
including the Magen David and the Menorah. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In an article in Yediot Ahronot from 20 April 2007 Jasmine Levy
interviewed five Israeli artists about changing the Israeli flag. Yaacov Agam
said that the Magen David is not a Jewish symbol and suggested to replace it
with the rainbow, which is the Menorah upside down. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The logo of the Messianic Jews is a combination of a <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK1">Menorah
with a Magen David and </a>a fish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the Karaite Synagogue in Moshav Matzliach the Menorah appears along
with a Magen David and the Ten Commandments. </span></div>
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zeevveezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06608699339778078417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24518491.post-73019009683198940922016-06-19T20:20:00.000-07:002017-10-13T08:45:28.671-07:00Brewers’ Stars and the Star of David<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Jacob
Linckh, Landauer Band I (1659), Seite 118v</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It
is a well-known fact that the Brewer's Star (on brewery signs, inn signs, beer
kegs, beer guild logos, beer cups etc.) looks exactly like the Star of David,
but it is important to notice that even though every Star of David is a
six-pointed star - not every six-pointed star is a Star of David. For example,
there are natural hexagrams like stars, snowflakes and flowers; and there are
artificial hexagrams like police badges, Chinese checkers etc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Matthias
Trum claims in his thesis [1] that the oldest depiction of a brewer is in a
1425 painting from Nuremberg, Germany. Later on Matthias Trum tries to answer
(without arriving to any clear conclusion) the question: “How could one symbol
in the course of history get two so different meanings? Might there even be a
connection between both forms, e.g. do they have the same origin, or is the
similarity merely coincidental”?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are two
facts about the connection between the hexagram and the alcohol industry, which
might help answer Matthias Trum’s question: the first is that James Bennett
Pritchard found a few hexagrams engraved on some wine jar handles from the 8th
century B.C.E. at Gibeon, Israel [2]. The second is that hexagrams were found
as Greek emblems for the marking of wines in Thasos and Carthago. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another point that seems relevant here is
that in alchemy the hexagram is composed from a triangle that points up
representing fire while the triangle that points down represents water. Fire
and water (needless to say) are opposites. In the hexagram they interpenetrate,
and together they represent the unity of the opposites or (in alchemy)- the
fiery water, the alcohol, the brandy etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Folklore has it that like the SIX points of
the hexagram the brewers’ star represented the SIX aspects of brewing: water,
hops, grain, malt, yeast, and brewer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">[1] For Technical University in Munich
titled: Historical depictions, guild signs and symbols of the brewing and
malting handcraft) <a href="http://www.schlenkerla.de/biergeschichte/brauerstern/html/brauerdarstellungene.html">http://www.schlenkerla.de/biergeschichte/brauerstern/html/brauerdarstellungene.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">[2] The Water System of Gibeon, 1961, Page
47, 48 ISBN 0-934718-14-8</span></div>
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zeevveezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06608699339778078417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24518491.post-67120175894540618272016-06-15T18:32:00.001-07:002016-06-15T18:32:54.275-07:00The Yellow Badge on Postage Stamps<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The yellow badge is the name of the most known badge among
the identifying badges that the Nazis enforced in legislation on the Jews. This
badge was made from yellow cloth cut in the form of a triangle or in the form
of a Star of David. In its center was added at times in black color the word
Jew in the local European language such as in German or in French. The yellow
badge serves nowadays mainly as symbol of the holocaust of European Jews, and
as a central image of the Jews as victims. It evokes in us powerfully traumatic
feelings of fear, anger and identification on the one hand, and of awe and
holiness on the other hand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since
WWII there were few stamps that “mentioned” the yellow badge:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">East</span></i> <i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Germany</span></i> issued in <b>1963</b> a stamp that
marks 25 years since Kristallnacht, Night of the Broken Glass, in which the
Nazis burned Jewish synagogues all over Germany and Austria. A chained yellow
badge with the German caption “Jude” appears on this stamp on the background of
a burning synagogue. Germans mark Holocaust Remembrance Day annually on the 27<sup>th</sup>
of January; the day the Russian army liberated the Auschwitz concentration
camp. In 2005 UN adopted the same date as a world Holocaust Remembrance Day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Israel</span></i>
issued in <b>1965</b> a stamp that marks 20 years since the liberation of the
Nazi concentration camps. Holocaust survivor Yaacov Zim designed this stamp.
The Hebrew word “remember” appears under a yellow badge. In Hebrew this word
arouses the association of the Biblical verse from Deuteronomy 25:17 “Remember
what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt”. Amalek represents
the Nazis and the verse calls not only for remembrance but also for vengeance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Sweden </span></i>issued
in <b>1987</b> a<i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></i>booklet pane and
one of its stamps was dedicated to Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg (1912
–1947?). A yellow badge appears on the chest of one of the thousands of Jews
that he rescued from the Holocaust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">West</span></i> <i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Germany </span></i>issued in <b>1988</b> a stamp to
mark the 50 years since Kristallnacht. This stamp shows a burning synagogue
along with a white Star of David that alludes to the yellow badge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Canada</span></i> issued
in <b>1995 </b>a stamp in memorial of the Jewish Holocaust with a large yellow
badge in front of images of Jewish-concentration-camp-prisoners in their black
striped uniform.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Belgium</span></i> issued
<b>at the end of 1995</b> a stamp in memorial of Yvonne Feyerick Nevejean
(1900-1987) who helped hide Jewish children in Belgium during World War II.
Behind the portrait of Yvonne Feyerick Nevejean we see children standing in
front of a yellow badge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">USA </span></i>issued
in <b>1997</b> a stamp in memorial of
Raoul Wallenberg, which is very similar to the above mentioned Swedish stamp: a
yellow badge appears on the chest of one of the thousands of Jews that he
rescued from the Nazis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Russia</span></i> issued
in <b>2000</b> a stamp marking 55 years since the Holocaust. There’s a yellow
Star of David (alluding to the yellow badge) on a wall, which carries the word
“Holocaust”. Behind the wall we see a huge flame, and above it, in the sky, two
birds of freedom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Israel</span></i> issued
in <b>2003</b> a Holocaust and Revival stamp designed by Gideon Sagi. The yellow
badge is peeling, and behind it we discover the blue Star of David of the
Israeli flag. The message is that the blue Star of David was based on, or even
born from, the yellow badge. The Stamp is dedicated to the revival of half a
million Holocaust survivors in Israel. On the tab we see the words Ezekiel
16:6: “in thy blood live”. These powerful words mean that Israel (represented
by the blue Star of David) came to being due to the blood of the Holocaust
victims (represented by the yellow badge). The words “blood” (death) and
“living” are opposites. The Star of David, which is the shape of the yellow
badge, is a symbol of the unison of all possible opposites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Israel</span></i> issued
in <b>2003</b> a stamp marking Yad Vashem's Jubilee Year. It shows a yellow badge on the chest of a Teddy Bear
alluding to the children murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust period. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Israel</span></i> issued
in <b>2003</b> a stamp [Designed by Meir Eshel] with the names of force
laborers from a factory in Poland who were shot or transported to Death Camps.
On the stamp we see railroads (used for transporting Jews to Death Camps)
transform into the blue stripes of the Israeli flag, while the yellow badge at
the bottom ascends and becomes the blue <b>Star of David</b> on the Israeli
flag. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We should remember that stamps are not subjective whims, they are states’
statements aimed at reflecting some public concerns. Judging by this small
sample of Yellow Badges on Postage Stamps we may notice, unsurprisingly, that
the remembrance of the Holocaust troubles the Israeli government in the first
place and the German government in the second place. </span></span></div>
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The six-pointed star is a most complicated
symbol. It has many meanings in different cultures. Currently, it is known as
the (political) symbol of Judaism, but in the past there were ascribed to it,
among other things, significances such as: defense and intertwining
(psychology); unification of the opposites; the similarity between microcosm
and macrocosm (philosophy). In European languages it goes by the name of the
STAR of David – which brings us to wonder about the astrological significance
of this symbol in general, and about its relationship with the zodiac in
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The six-pointed star is known in Jewish
culture as Magen David (David’s Shield), in Roman culture as hexagram, in
Christian culture as the star of Mary or as the Star of David. The Muslim calls
it Solomon’s seal, and the Indians – Yantra.</div>
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This Symbol was known already on the daybreak
of history. In the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin are presented several
cylinder seals, dated to c.2500 B.C., decorated with celestial symbols showing
stars with six, seven, eight and more points. These stars appear there in an
astrological context or in an astronomical context. Among them there is (on
item VA/243) a circle surrounded by six triangles, which looks like the Star of
David. From the same culture and from the same time frame there are
archaeological artifacts of the zodiac that prove that the Sumerians recognized
it or even invented it [1]. The Star of David and the zodiac signs developed
since then in parallel lines, and separately, with sporadic collisions of their
courses. For instance: </div>
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The six-pointed star shaped Bir Chana Mosaic
Floor (now in Tunisia’s Bardo Museum) contains the zodiac signs as well as the
personifications of the days of the week. It is dated to the third century C.E.
Whoever created it “suggested” that the Star of David is the geometrical symbol
of the map of the sky. </div>
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Jewish tradition has it that after Exodus
the 12 Israelite tribes encamped in the desert in the shape of the Magen David
[2]. To this equation numerous Jewish sources add the comparison of the 12
tribes with the stones of the Jewish High Priest, and with the zodiac: In Sefer
Hapliah ascribed to Rabbi Nechonia Ben Hakana we find that the encampment of
the Tribes was parallel to the 12 zodiacal signs and to the 12 stones of the
High Priest. The same goes as to <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK1">Midrash Tanchuma </a>[3]
where we read that the tribes are part of the cosmic order, like the 12 hours
of the day, the 12 months of the year and the 12 zodiacal signs.</div>
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In his book De Vita Mosis (3, 209) Philo
(20-50 C.E.) interpreted the names on the 12 stones of the High Priest as the
signs of the zodiac. Josephus Flavius (37-100 C.E.) gave a similar explanation
to the 12 stones in his book Antiquities of the Jews (Vo. 3 chapter 7). The
stones were placed in FOUR rows like the zodiac signs which are arranged in
FOUR groups according to the four elements: earth water fire and air. This
equation seems to be based on the common numerical denominator of the zodiac
and the tribes: 12. In the Star of David, there are 6 points and 6 angles. In
addition, the 6 outer triangles can be folded into the hexagon and create 6
internal overlapping triangles. </div>
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The book Solomon’s seal (dated to the first
century C.E.) tells about King Solomon who caught a devil by using an enchanted
seal that God gave him. According to Jewish and Muslim traditions this seal was
in the shape of a five or six pointed star. In the 10<sup>th</sup> paragraph of
the book King Solomon asks the devil which zodiacal sign rules over him and the
devil answers that he obeys Aquarius. In the 73 paragraph of the book, one of
the zodiacal signs presents itself to King Solomon as the first sign, Aries.</div>
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In Opus Medico-Chymicum, an alchemy book by
Johann Daniel Mylius published in 1618, one of the illustrations shows a
six-pointed star representing the planets surrounded by the zodiac wheel. The
general structure of this illustration is very similar to the Bir Chana mosaic
mentioned above, even though 1300 years separate between them. </div>
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At the Cathedral of Cologne, Germany there
is a statue called Virgo Immaculata which was created in 1749. It shows 12
hexagrams around Virgin Mary’s head, representing the 12 zodiac signs. It seems
like an illustration of the verse from Revelation Chapter 12:1-2:</div>
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A
great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon
under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.</div>
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[1] Donald A. Mackenzie, Myths of Babylonia And Assyria, 1915, project
Gutenberg, Chapter XIII- Astrology and Astronomy.</div>
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[2] In a Hebrew article by Dr. Gabriel H. Cohen from the Bible
Department of Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel</div>
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[3] Buber Edition Parashat
Vayechi 16</div>
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Igreja de São Francisco - 12th Century</div>
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Jewish Warsaw Ghetto Police Arm Band Early 1940s</div>
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