Immahoth (Our Mothers)

More sculptures from the Mamilla Mall outdoor gallery:

Ruth

Hannah - a praying woman

Rachel Immanu (Our Mother)

Tzakat Rachel (Rachel's Cry - for her missing children)

This one is so powerful for me, Rachel's now-empty womb has formed its own tongue and is shrieking.

Devorah under her palm tree

   

Miryam with what should be a hand drum

These images bear witness to the power of these sacred stories to transcend time, space and culture, to reveal old and new Torah, again and again.

Mamilla Mall Scuplture

On one of my night forays into Jerusalem I walked down the Mamilla Mall promenade. It was twinkling with lights and underneath them was an outdoor gallery of biblically themed sculpture. I did not have my camera, so I went back today after church. Here is a sampling (other than the menorah, I don't remember what and who these were):

  

A favorite theme was Eshet Lot, Lot's Wife:

 

More to come...