In 2021, this work received unique recognition with a Guinness World Record as the world’s longest megillah, writing a new chapter in the history of this ancient heritage text and the art of illumination. For the next two millennia,

The Song of Songs is an anthology of poems of love and desire between two lovers, a universal mystery as old as time itself. This aspect of human nature has changed little over millennia, and contemporary readers easily identify their own craving for intimacy in this ancient text.

The Scroll of Ruth is one of the shortest books of the Bible yet contains one of its longest stories. The story is characterized by its idyllic and romantic nature, though serious crises unfold at its opening, both nationally – a famine – and personally – the death of Naomi’s children and husband.

The reader of Ecclesiastes (Kohelet) might wonder how this beautiful yet enigmatic book found its place in the Bible’s canon. Our sages, too, were unsettled by its distinctiveness and even considered removing it from the biblical collection: “The sages sought to shelve the book of Ecclesiastes” (Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 30, 12), citing contradictions within its text. 

Eicha (“How”), a rhetorical question that conveys boundless grief, is the word that opens the book of five laments over the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple, the fall of the Kingdom of Judah, the deaths of many of its inhabitants – young and old alike – by sword and by famine, and the mass exile to Babylonia in 586 BCE

Created in 2003, this rendition of the Passover Haggadah is a unique work of art illustrating the ancient narrative alongside the ritual Hebrew text. It was also my first foray into the illuminating of ancient texts that would be my main interest for nearly 20 years.  

This series of paintings merge two calendars- the Hebrew calendar and the yearly cycle of reading the Torah. Every week of the year, one Torah portion- or parasha– is read, creating an annual cycle of that synchronizes the timeless Torah with the real-time calendar.

This series of paintings was created to pay tribute to the Jewish holidays of Israel. Each holiday is unique in meaning and season, reflected in illustrations of verses and images symbolizing each holiday. The paintings are designed in concentric circles