Kotel: Stars

2003

“..Just as the sight of the stars in the vast sky causes us to dream and ponder about our relationship to the infinite one...the Kotel, as the genuine spiritual center of the universe, provides us with the medium for that evolving relationship..”

Chaim Cohen

The Kotel, the Western Wall, is a section of the western supporting wall of the Temple Mount which has remained intact since the destruction of the Second Temple (70 C.E.). It became the most hallowed spot in Jewish religious and national consciousness and tradition by virtue of its proximity to the Western Wall, of the Holy of Holies in the Temple, from which, according to numerous sources, the Divine Presence never departed. It became a center for mourning over the destruction of the Temple and Israel's exile, on the one hand, and of religiousF;national communion with the memory of Israel's former glory and the hope for its restoration, on the other.

original height

28 cm.  11.02 in.

original width

24 cm.  9.45 in.

original media

Oil On Board

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