Who Knows One? (Passover Portfolio)

• Title Who Knows One? (Passover Portfolio)
• Category Print
• Medium Serigraph
• Dimensions 21.5"h x 16"w
• Framed Dimensions 23.5"h x 26.5"w
• Year Completed 1982
• Description Passover portfolio (9 of 10) (ed. 128/300)
• Notes "At the end of the Passover "Seder" it is customary to sing symbolic songs which are designed mainly to amuse the children. The fact that the songs come at the end of the "Haggadah" keeps the children awake through the "Seder." One of these songs is "Who knows one...?" This is a kind of cannon in the form of a riddle, based on the number 1 to 13. Each number has a significance in the scriptures, in tradition of history of the Jewish people. And these are the numbers and their meaning: -- 1. One if God. 2. The two stone tablets of the ten Commandments. 3. The three patriarchs - Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 4. The four matriarchs - Sara, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah. 5. Five books comprising the Law of Moses (the Pentateuch). 6. Six books comprising the oral law (the Mishnah.) 7. Seven days of the week. 8. Eight days from the birth of a son to the ceremony of circumcision. 9. Nine months of pregnancy. 10. The ten Commandments. 11. Eleven stars. 12. The twelve tribes of Israel. 13. The thirteen attributes of God. -- The serigraph recalls a Byzantine icon. It portrays 13 separate scenes in order of the riddles in the song; from left to right and top to bottom.
• Artist Shlomo Katz Polish 1937-1992
• Credit Harrison Collection
• Location Dornsife First floor hallway
• Accession Number 2009.0040
• Status Checked Out
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