The Rainbow Tallit
Title
The Rainbow Tallit
Creator
Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections at the University of Colorado Boulder
Date
2013
Contributor
Stephanie Yuhas, Netanel Miles-Yepez, Deborah Fink, Sue Salinger, David Shneer, Andrew Violet, and Jacob Flaws.
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Format
Portable Document Format
Language
English
Text
“Sometime in the 1950s, I was meditating on the midrash, “How did God create the world? He wrapped it in a robe of light and it began to shine” and I suddenly imagined a prayer-shawl that was like a rainbow of light with each color representing one of the sefirot and its corresponding day of creation.”
- Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, A Hidden Light
“You go to the Holy Wall in Jerusalem, and you will see people wearing the ‘rainbow tallit’ I designed who have no idea where it came from. And if they had an idea, they might not wear it.”
- Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Wrapped in a Holy Flame
- Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, A Hidden Light
“You go to the Holy Wall in Jerusalem, and you will see people wearing the ‘rainbow tallit’ I designed who have no idea where it came from. And if they had an idea, they might not wear it.”
- Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Wrapped in a Holy Flame
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Citation
Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections at the University of Colorado Boulder, “The Rainbow Tallit,” IJL Digital Exhibits, accessed April 25, 2024, https://embodiedjudaism.omeka.net/items/show/107.