Olive Wood Candlestick

For Chanukah, which starts next week, Aviram Paz from Kibbutz Mishmar Ha'emek prepared in his amateur carpentry workshop this original olive wood candlestick in the shape of the Star of David, and without any nail.
Size: 60X60 cm
Courtesy of Aviram Paz
Photographed by: David Eynav
Copyright: David Eynav 2008

48 Triangles David Stars

48 Triangles make 2 David Stars, one inside the other 

I created this Photoshop work influenced by the same pattern at the Ishak Bey Mosque, Macedonia, but the photo I published from that place was too small, so I thought it would be nice to show you the admirable ingenuity of the Muslim geometricians who must have been behind the scenes.

Another Brewery Six Pointed Star From Iowa

This is a Six Pointed Star from the floor of the Brewery at Dubuque, Iowa, USA. It continues a long chain of relationships between the hexagram and alcohol, starting from the 8th century BCE.

Picture is courtesy of "heimer66" from Flickr

P. D. Ouspensky: Union of Space and Time

Here's a new meaning of the six-pointed star, which no one mentioned [in this blog] until now: 

The six-pointed star which represented the world in ancient symbolism is in reality the representation of space-time or the " period of dimensions ", ie of the three space-dimensions and the three time-dimensions in their perfect union, where every point of space includes the whole of time, and every moment of time includes the whole of space; when everything is everywhere and always. But this state of six-dimensional space is incomprehensible and inaccessible to us…

Copied from: A New Model of the Universe  By P. D. Ouspensky Page 445 Published by Courier Dover Publications, 1997

ISBN 0486297012

Brewery Six Pointed Star

Brewery Six Pointed Star from Dubuque, Iowa, USA  - picture is courtesy of "SD Dirk" from Flickr

Gold hexaram Beer Star

Dobush from Kfar Aza sent me this Israeli beer label with a gold hexagram, which stands for brewery, and continues a Medieval  tradition of selling beer under the emblem of the beer guild.

Copyright: Dobush 2008

Brewery Door in Brooklyn

Brewery Door in Brooklyn

Picture of a Brewery Star on a brewery door in Brooklyn, New York is courtesy of “iandavid” from Flickr. Every Star of David is a six-pointed star, but not every six-pointed star is a Star of David.