Memorial light

Temple Bat Yahm

Location: Newport Beach, California
Year: 2010
Materials: Hand hammered sterling silver, wood base
Dimensions: 9 in. high

The silver is shaped like a fragment of a scroll, its upper edge rising in crossed diagonals like a flame. The candle sits in the curl at the front, and the wall behind is pierced with the words "The candle of the Lord is the soul of man." The same design in red enamel on copper is the yahrzeit lantern of 1995.

The text

נר ה' נשמת אדם

The soul of man is the candle of the Lord.

Proverbs 20:27

Discussed in Ori Soltes, "To Glorify Sacred Space," 2019 (figure 7)

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Arnold Schwarzbart, z"l. March 10, 1942 to March 16, 2015.

His papers are held as the Arnold Schwarzbart Collection, MSC 0576, in the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection at the Knox County Public Library. Eulogies and tributes are collected under Remembrances.