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SYNAGOGUE
STAINED GLASS, JEWISH STAINED GLASS, SYNAGOGUE ART, AND JUDAICA
BY JEWISH ARTISTS DAVID AND MICHELLE PLACHTE-ZUIEBACK
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"Sim
Shalom" and "Shalom
Rav"
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Friedman Residence
San Diego, California
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CHRONOLOGICAL
INDEX
SELECTED WORKS OF SYNAGOGUE STAINED GLASS
THE JEWISH SANCTUARY
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In
the first panel, entitled, "Sim Shalom,"
or "The Promise of Peace," we see the
world as if after a major cataclysm such as "the
flood," or, perhaps, a nuclear war.
Clouds boil behind the mountains and the sea bottom
is filled with the corpses of fishes and the fossils
of dinosaurs. A rainbow sun shines, symbolizing
G-d's promise to never again destroy the world.
Two doves fly off , messengers of peace to the
future.
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The
second panel, on "Shalom Rav," is entitled,
"The Fulfillment of Peace." In
this composition, huge cumulus clouds float in
a peaceful sky. Flocks of birds issue forth
from the land. The seas are filled again
with fishes and the tiny village is nestled in
a green land. The text of the prayer is
etched around the border of the window.
A concentric border is decorated with the double
helix of the DNA molecule, symbol of life. A third
concentric border on each panel is made of beveled
pieces of glass, which act as prisms to transform
the strong San Diego sunlight into a multiplicity
of rainbows which are projected on the walls of
the stairwell, where the installation is located.
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