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A Mysterious Alleyway in Safed Wood Print
by Esther Newman-Cohen
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A Mysterious Alleyway in Safed wood print by Esther Newman-Cohen. Bring your artwork to life with the texture and added depth of a wood print. Your image gets printed directly onto a sheet of 3/4" thick maple wood. There are D-clips on the back of the print for mounting it to your wall using mounting hooks and nails (included).
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Safed, Tsfat in Hebrew, a town high in the mountains in the north of Israel, is considered one of the four holy cites. The others are Hevron... more
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Safed, Tsfat in Hebrew, a town high in the mountains in the north of Israel, is considered one of the four "holy cites." The others are Hevron ('earth'), Yerushalayim ('fire'), and Tiverya ('water').
Tsfat is associated with the element of air, and "the air of the Holy Land makes one wise." The Zohar, a primary source of Jewish mysticism, states that the air of Zefat is the purest in all of Israel. It is no coincidence that the holy Rabbi Yitzchak Luria, known as "the Ari", revealed great depths of kabbalah while living in Tsfat.
Modern Tsfat dates back to the 16th century, when it was home to many illustrious Jewish sages and mystics, including Rabbi Josef Karo whose Code of Jewish Law is definitive to this day, and the holy Rabbi Yitzchak Luria who revealed great depths of kabbalistic secrets from the Zohar, the Book of Splendor, which in turn was written by the holy Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in nearby Meron.
This Unaltered photograph was taken in Safed, northern Isra...
About Esther Newman-Cohen
Dr. Esther Newman-Cohen is a highly creative Israeli-based artist. She engages in a wide range of artistic activity, including drawing, painting and woodcarving. Her subjects range from abstracts to realistic portraits and landscapes, done in a variety of media - pencil, ink, aquarelle, pastel, acrylic and oil. She also designs ketubot, Jewish marriage contracts, many of which are also posted on Fine Art America. Over the past five years she has added wood sculptures to her repertoire. Her first solo exhibits took place in Jerusalem, at the Alliance Francaise in 1989: "The Women of Jerusalem," in 1992 at the Gerard Behar Theater: "Flowers and Landscapes of Jerusalem," and in 2008 at the Jerusalem Botanical Garden: "Flowers: A Love Story."...
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Esther Newman-Cohen
Many thanks to the purchaser of this photo. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did taking it!
Esther Newman-Cohen
Thanks so much, Miriam, for featuring this work in the Jewish Art Group!
Esther Newman-Cohen
Thank you Jena for favoriting this work!
Esther Newman-Cohen
Thanks so much, Jeff, for featuring this work in the Forgotten by Time Group!
Jeff Roney
Congratulations, Esther! Your image has been featured on the FAA group “Forgotten by Time”