Copper Yard MenorahNovember 2013 Kislev 5774 Copper, TIKI torches The design of this Hanukkah menorah (more accurately, hanukiah) bears much more of a resemblance to traditional Judaica than I am typically wont to make; however, what it lacks in aesthetic innovation it makes up for in scale. This particular hanukiah is made of " copper pipe and stands a full 7'9" tall with the torch lights installed and has a span of over six feet. I've wanted to make something like

A friend came to me for a Chanukah gift for his wife

is god of time as well as agriculture and social order

I will grant that there is less of the focal material in this piece than in past anniversary gifts—but when the muse hits

Is it a black hole

For the face of the hand-carved soapstone she chose the character 福 (fù)

I finally decided that what it really needed was to be displayed in a way that maximized its natural beauty without distracting from it

Althought the spathe and spadex together are often thought of as the flower of the anthurium

Yet the phrase applies more so to the couple than the ring

This pendant is inlaid and edged with 14-karat gold in the order of the Ten Sefirot

Because a pendant would make too much sense

It is the national stone of the modern state of Israel

and for banishing all negativity in favor of operating only from a place of positivity