Parsha Panels at Temple Beth Am
54 etched glass panels, each a unique expression of the weekly Torah portions, surround and hold the congregation. They glow and sparkle with light.
The words and patterns in each representation carry subtle layers of meaning distilled from the Torah portions themselves, as well as numerous ancient and contemporary parsha commentaries.
The intent was for each illuminated manuscript to employ a degree of reductive abstraction so that the focus is on the primacy of words rather than images. The hope is that they will be accessible to readers and viewers in numerous ways, such that the meanings of the panels will both be open to interpretation and discovery and also prompt questions (a very Jewish disposition), just as the Torah portions themselves challenge us to do.
