Closing a Circle

Our first 3D folded paper Magen David Sukkah Lampshades exhibited in the first store, in the Jewish quarter of the Old city of Jerusalem, near the place where the Magen David was invented 3000 years ago, Mount Zion, King David's city...

Stan Tenen on Carpet Pages in the Leningrad Codex

I asked Stan Tenen to explain the carpet pages in the Leningrad Codex and he was kind enough to let me publish here his most original answer:
It's my theory that the carpet pages of the Leningrad Codex record geometric structures necessary for maintaining the integrity of the letter-text of Torah. They are the earliest source for many Kabbalistic drawings, including the Tree of Life. Some can be pulled up into 3-D, some can be woven or knotted, and some show relationships that are otherwise not easily seen. The scholars are paying little or no attention to the carpet pages, seeing them mostly as nothing but artwork. The scholars, of course, wouldn't recognize a geometric object if it stepped on them, so they are completely unaware of their enormous potential significance. This is a story in itself. If there were a way to interest/entice established scholars into a geometric investigation of these carpet pages, that in itself might lead to major breakthroughs in recovery of understanding of Torah that has been lost in our time. Carpet page 490 Recto of the Leningrad Codex shows what are now called the Borromean Rings -- which are related to non-Euclidean geometries important in modern physics.

Star of David Shipment Arrived Safely

Our Star of David shipment was delayed for a week since ships avoided Haifa because it was bombarded by Hezbollah and all the ships' traffic moved to Ashdod, which couldn't handle all of it at once. Eventually it is here, eager to be sold in the coming Sukkoth.

Leading His Army King David

"David and Jonathan" wrote and sings a song about the Star of David

http://www.kipa.co.il/bikorim/show_art.asp?id=5441

 

It seems to me that this is the first song ever sung about this subject. I asked a few people and nobody seems to know such a song. It is quite enigmatic that in a country which is full of patriotism like Israel there's no such song - I would have expected that it would be heard from every kindergarten that I pass by on my way home...

Franz Rosenzweig

There's a photo of Franz Rosenzweig ((1886–1929) cut in the shape of the Star of David on the cover of his book The Star of Redemption (ISBN 0-299-20720-X).
There's another on the cover of the first edition of this book published on 1921 (in German).
In this book Franz Rosenzweig builds his philosophy around the shape of the Star of David, composed of two conceptual triangles which together form the basis of Jewish belief: Creation, Revelation, and Redemption; God, Israel, and World.

The Shape of the Star

This is a partial list of potential possible designs of the Star of David (not including materials and colors):

1. Superimposing two triangles
2. Superimposing two triangles so that their lines are interwoven
3. Three superimposed congruent parallelograms or rhombuses
4. A regular hexagon with six equilateral triangles upon each of its edges
5. Three “butterflies”
6. “paper hat” mirrored along a horizontal axis
7. Six Alpha letters (Hexalpha) or six A letters
8. Made from 3 W's
9. Star of David leaning on "two legs" (two triangles instead of one)
10. Star of David made from curved lines instead of straight lines

 See : Black, Max (1979). More about metaphor. In: Andrew Ortony (ed.), Metaphor and thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 19-43.

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Also:

Double Lined

Drawn by hand

Drawn by pair of compasses

Embossed

Empty or full (circumference only)

Engraved

In a circle

In a hexagon

In a lattice

In a square

In two intertwined squares

Made from dots

Made from letters (micrography)

On a round object

Partial Star of David (made from unconnected triangles)

Surrounded by inscriptions

Surrounding a circle

Surrounding a flower

Surrounding a lily

Surrounding a pentagram

Surrounding a picture (like Theodor Herzl)

Three dimensional (like Yevu Yashir's design)

With a dot (like in alchemy)

With inscription inside (like Zion)

What I learned from this partial list is:

That there is no uniform shape that everybody has to obey (like in the flag).

That there is no limit to the designers' imagination…

"O my dove..."

Four sparrows found shelter in a Shield of David built into the wall of an old building in Harrisburg Pennsylvania. Now I understand why it is called a shield.

O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the covert of the cliff, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely

(Song of Songs 2:14)
This unbelievable Photo is courtesy of Kawkawpa from Flickr