Plenty of Solomon’s seals (from 1926) appear on the walls of The Star Mosque in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which is a Mughal style mosque with hundreds of big and small stars as decorations… Picture is courtesy of "fatal Cleopatra" from Flickr.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Star Mosque, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Plenty of Solomon’s seals (from 1926) appear on the walls of The Star Mosque in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which is a Mughal style mosque with hundreds of big and small stars as decorations… Picture is courtesy of "fatal Cleopatra" from Flickr.
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Astronaut Ilan Ramon

Astronaut Ilan Ramon felt as a representative of the Jewish people:
· He took into space a mezuzah with a Star of David, a microfiche of the Bible and a tiny Torah scroll.
· He used to carry a Star of David on his shirtsleeve.
· He was not religious but he decided to eat kosher food in space.
Rabbi Shraga Simmons wrote:
After the tragedy, I saw an editorial cartoon that depicted a father and son, gazing at the night sky. Seven stars dotted the heavens -- six regular stars, and one Star of David. As the father placed his arm around the boy's shoulder, he pointed to the Star of David and explained: "That one is Ilan Ramon.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Solomon's Seal Legend
Joseph Jacobs and M. Seligsohn wrote in the Jewish Encyclopedia:
The legend that Solomon possessed a seal ring on which the name of God was engraved and by means of which he controlled the demons... is especially developed by Arabic writers, who declare that the ring... was partly brass and partly iron. With the brass part of the ring Solomon signed his written commands to the good genii, and with the iron part he signed his commands to the evil genii, or devils...The legend of a magic ring by means of which the possessor could exorcise demons was current in the first century, as is shown by Josephus' statement ("Ant." viii. 2) that one Eleazar exorcised demons in the presence of Vespasian by means of a ring, using incantations composed by Solomon.
The Arabs afterward gave the name of "Solomon's seal" to the six-pointed star-like figure (see Magen, Dawid) engraved on the bottom of their drinking-cups.
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Solomon’s seal
Koch Fractals
Koch Fractals look like six-pointed stars.Picture is coied from Wikipedia (I slightly edited it with Photoshop).
In the Wikipedia entry for Fractal they say
a fractal is a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be subdivided in parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole.
Massiah Borochoff Building
Star of David above the window of the magnificent building of Bucharian merchant Massiah Borochoff which was built in 1908, in Jaffa Street, Jerusalem, Israel.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
My Beloved is Mine and I am His
Did you know that the shadow of the Star of David is in the shape of a heart?Picture is courtesy of "jennifer.white" who published it on Flickr and wrote in the caption
Song of Solomon 2:16 "My Beloved is Mine and I am His" . To me that is really what love is about.
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Arab House near the Temple Mount

Picture of a Hexagram on an Arab House near the Temple Mount is courtesy of "keithwills" who published it on Flickr and wrote in the caption:
It seems to me that these Stars of David, about a meter below the roof of this building, are not that old but keithwills surely chalenges the experts to explain where did these emblems come from...
The Arabs will tell you that they were the first to have posession of the temple yet here we see the star of David on one of their buildings. They built most of their area of the temple from rubble from the old temple.
It seems to me that these Stars of David, about a meter below the roof of this building, are not that old but keithwills surely chalenges the experts to explain where did these emblems come from...
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