Mezuzah

Temple Beth El

Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Year: 1999
Materials: Sterling silver with gold leaf
Dimensions: 12 in. high, 6 in. wide

Made for the doorway into the sanctuary, in honor of the congregation's retiring rabbi, Howard Simon. An opening cut in the shape of the Jerusalem skyline, with its arches and domes, shows the parchment within. Below it, in gold, "All that the Lord has spoken we will do and we will heed"; above it, the name Shaddai.

The text

שדי

Shaddai, Almighty, the name written on every mezuzah.

Above the opening

כל אשר דבר ה' נעשה ונשמע

All that the Lord has spoken we will do and we will heed.

Exodus 24:7

Discussed in Ori Soltes, "To Glorify Sacred Space," 2019 (figure 10)