Berchot Hatorah...torah Blessings is a painting by Marlene Burns which was uploaded on February 1st, 2010.
Berchot Hatorah...torah Blessings
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Title
Berchot Hatorah...torah Blessings
Artist
Marlene Burns
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BERCHOT HATORAH
"Blessed are You, O Lord, Our God, King of the universe, Who selected us from all the peoples and gave us His Torah, Blessed are You, O Lord, Giver of the Torah.
Blessed are You, O Lord, Our God, King of the universe, who gave us the Torah of truth and implanted eternal life within us. Blessed are You, O Lord, Giver of the Torah."
This image is the expression of the blessings that frame the chanting of a portion of Torah. The honor of saying these blessings is called an aliyah, 'going up' to the Torah.
God is exemplified by the color red at the top of the painting with his wide influence raining down in the drips and bands of color. The red bands that head down to the red circle represent the giving of Torah at Mount Sinai. This revelation happened in the second book of Moses. Each of the rectangles symbolizes one of the five books of Moses.
The painting has at its center, the silhouette of the Torah scroll (including the pomegranate tops.) Within this form are lines that embrace the scroll, showing how we embrace the Torah. Also in the Torah image, are the first and last letters of the Torah, bet and lamed. The red circles reference the gematria (numerology) of those letters, two dots for two and three dots for thirty. According to The Ethics of Our Fathers, thirty is the age of greatest strength.
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Comments (29)
Lenore Senior
CONGRATULATIONS, Marlene! You are the Featured Artist for three weeks in the fine art group, Our World Gallery! Your works are always beautiful, dynamic, and masterful works of art! v/f/feature!
Marlene Burns
Bonnie, thank you for making this painting a favorite....the original is about 2 feet away from me as I work in my office!
EMONA Art
Excellent design, composition and chromatic!!! This piece is so fine, Marlene, love it a lot...:) f,v&g+
Susan Williams Phillips
Beautiful, Marlene! Congrats on sale. f
Marlene Burns replied:
Thank you, Susan! I sold a collection of 8 in this series to the same collector!
Kip DeVore
Very nice. Congratulatins, Marlene.
Marlene Burns replied:
Yhanks, Kip...they bought 6 in this series...the display should look fantastic!
Marlene Burns
Thank you to my collector in Thornhill, Canada who is building a beautiful collection of Judaic artwork!
Lenore Senior
Since I love color, minimalism, abstracts, geometry, and architecture, most everything you do fits in at least two of these categories, whether in art or photography. You have an amazing talent and a strong belief system of which that I am in awe. Always fantastic work on an emotional, spiritual and/or aesthetic plain. v/f
Jean Moore
Love bold simplicity you portray in your works.
Marlene Burns replied:
thank you so much, jean! this painting is a big guy...sitting right over my shoulder in my office!
Jim Wright
It was interesting to read Reb's comments about a keyboard and a tune. The first thing that came to mind when I saw this piece was that this is a visual expression of spirituality in the same way that certain music is an audio expression. I don't know how much Jewish traditions support visual art as worship, but I think Christians could do a lot better. Most of our ikons, paintings and sculptures are hundreds of years old.
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