Bar Mitzvah Mosaic

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      ליפא שנילצער added this photo to his favorites. (76 months ago)

    2. especially_today (75 months ago | reply)

      this is really nice.

    3. zayde (75 months ago | reply)

      Mazel Tov !!
      We are so proud of you as you enter this phase of your life.

    4. Baby Dove (75 months ago | reply)

      wow, I really like these shots together. Tells a wonderful story. Quite beautiful.

    5. Make Studio | Marty Coleman (75 months ago | reply)

      Great mosaic/collage. Funny story about a tefillin...I went to Brandeis University back in the early 70s. Why I chose it I don't remember, just thought it was cool I guess. I knew nothing about Judaism and didn't know anyone who I knew was Jewish. I did know some Jews looking back, but I didn't know it at the time.
      So, I go to Brandeis and I quickly learn a bit about Judaism, especially the more liberal varieties. I met this very very cute girl in the school pub one evening, really enjoyed her. She told me what dorm she lived in and the next day I thought I would just walk over and say hello. It was a first floor apt type dorm room. I walk up the the room and I see this funny thing on the door post. Sort of like a box. I couldn't figure out what it was of course. I knocked and waited....and she comes to the door with the box on her forehead! I was like...'oh, hello. How are you today. Did you know you have a box on your forehead?' She invited me in and of course I started asking questions about it. She explained it all to me and so I was educated. I also realized this was serious stuff for her and it wasn't the evening to ask to go drinking and carousing! I also turned out to not be to her liking all that much because I wasn't, as was very obvious at that point, not Jewish.

      I told the story to someone later and they got very irate, telling me my story had to be baloney because a woman would never wear a tefillin on her head, it was only men who did that. So, then I was educated further!

      Anyway, congrats to your son on his Bar Mitsvah and don't be too hard on people who have no idea what the 'box' is all about! LOL

    6. chaim zvi (75 months ago | reply)

      As soon as you mentioned Brandeis (and liberal), I knew your story would involve a woman putting on tefillin.

      I also understand your surprise on seeing a "box" on her head. I roomed one summer with someone from Oklahoma, and I warned him the first night that he'd see something weird (to him) the next morning.

      But thanks for the comment. You're kind of the king of mosaics/collages, right?

    7. Make Studio | Marty Coleman (75 months ago | reply)

      Actually I didn't arrive in Oklahoma until well after my Brandeis years. I was from Connecticut at that time, and before that (and after until 94) in California.
      I would say I am more like the grand high poobah of collages rather than a king.
      haha...seriously though. I find combinations of images very powerful storytellers and very beautiful formal statements. I spend hours and hours on collages, finding miniscule compositional nuances that I completely get enveloped in. I love it.

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