Read Full Text

Read Full Text, 1983
Two school chairs, a school map entitled: 'Palestina at the era of the Bible',
a wood folding table, hight 75 Cm.
Collection Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo
Photo: Arend Velsink

Please note: The chess pieces are based on the form of תפילין TeFILIN / Phylacteries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin
https://toldotyisrael.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/probing-the-earliest-origins-of-tefillin-phylacteries-part-i/

קדיש קד איש מני אז מניין תשע בו פחות אחד KaDISh (Prayer for the dead): One man bowed out/ Now the quorum of ten (MiNYaN) only has nine/ One too few

קדיש קד איש מני אז מניין תשע בו פחות אחד

KaDISh (Prayer for the dead): One man bowed out/ Now the quorum of ten (MiNYaN) only has nine/ One too few, 1979

KaDISh KaD ISH MiNI AZ MiNYaN TeShA BO PaChOT EChaD

22 x european typewriters + 1 x hebrew typewriter,  2x steel boxes (the form is based on the image of TeFILIN - Phylacteries, white band, 250 x 50 x 50 Cm.

Photo: Rüdiger Lubricht, Worpswede

SeFaT IMI SeFaT EVeR My mother's tongue is the Hebrew tongue

SeFaT IMI SeFaT EVeR
My mother's tongue is the Hebrew tongue, 1985
Iron, leather, wood, books
250 x 250 x 250 Cm.
Collection Israel Museum, Jerusalem

ref: TeFILIN, phylacteries,

EIRUV ChaTzeROT עירוב חצרות (Amalgamation of Courts), (Mingling of Courtyards)

עירוב חצרות

EIRUV ChaTzeROT -  
(Amalgamation of Courtyards) (Mingling of Courtyards), 1982

Sheet metal, copper (The 2x copper objects are based on the form of TeFILIN phylacteries) ; 2 x Parts, 72 x 72 x 72 cm each

EIRUV ChaTzeROT - Mingling of Courtyards, in which more than one adjoining (private domain) are symbolically joined together into one shared domain.