Mi Yodeah (Who Knows?) 2017
Each print 8" x 11"
The song “Who Knows?” (Mi Yodeah in Hebrew), is one of the last sung in a traditional Passover seder (a ritual meal of prayers, songs and discussion celebrating the freedom of the Jews from slavery). In this series of prints inspired by the song, I have assigned a botanical element to thirteen important tenets of Judaism each of which is a cumulative stanza in the song. The song is fun and but still imparts lessons for the children and adults at the table.
Luchot Habrit (Two Tablets
of the Covenant)
Cotyledon
Chumshei Torah (Five Books
of Torah)
Unidentified seedpod
Mi Yodeah? (Who Knows?)
Clivia seeds
Avot (Three are the Fathers; Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob)
Spathiphyllum bloom
Sidrei Mishna (Six Volumes
of Mishnah)
Hibiscus seed pod
Eloheinu (One God)
Clematis Seed
Imahot (Four Mothers; Sarah Rebeccah, Rachel and Leah)
Phalaenopsis orchid
Yemei Shavtah (Seven days
of the week)
Hemerocallis flower
Yemei Mila (Eight Days Before the Circumcision)
Papaver seed pod
Yemei Mila (Eight Days Before the Circumcision)
Papaver seed pod
Yerchei Leida (Nine Months
Before Birth)
Asclepias seed pod
Divrayah (Ten Commandments)
Dried Lavendula
Kochvaya (Eleven Stars in
Joseph’s Dream)
Leontopodium alpinum
Shivtaya (Twelve Tribes)
Corylus colurna
Midaya (Thirteen Merciful Attributes of God)
Brachychiton rupestris
