Splendor/Hod as the Echo of a Kiss

Yael Kenan sees hod as the glorious feeling of young lovers kissing. She photographed the shadow of the event to reveal the link between the Hebrew word hod (splendor) and hed (echo). Yael perceives the shadow as a visual equivalent of an echo in sound.

Teaching/Learning as Foundation/Yesod

Michal Hadari photographed a father learning Torah with his son. He is building a foundation for successfully transmitting Jewish values from generation to generation assuring a splendid future. The biblical injunction “to diligently teach your children” forms a central part of the daily liturgy. Foundation/yesod integrates the attributes of success/continuity/eternity/netzach with splendor/hod.

Avian Splendor/Hod

Esti Lazarovich Shachaf sees splendor/hod as the metamorphosis of a strange-looking earthbound creature with stubby feathers into a magnificent bird in flight. Scroll down to “Avian Strength/Gevurah” and see the same parrot in the first moments of its life.

Hesed on Her Wedding Day

Sharon Vaserman sees compassion/hesed as the divine loving kindness bestowed upon a bride on her wedding day. Sharon feels hesed saturating the wedding with all the good in the world coming together to forge a bond of love between bride and groom as they become one.

Success from a Lizard's Viewpoint

The multifaceted meanings of the Hebrew word “netzach” are related to success and victory, conducting and orchestration, continuity and eternality. Mor Perry photographed a lizard’s success in catching its lunch.

Netzach as Continuity

Merav Razon sees the birth of a child in the modern State of Israel as an expression of netzach. It is a divine event attesting to the continuity of the Jewish People despite millennia of bitter exile. The prophet Isaiah links the words “from generation to generation for all eternity (l’netzach netzachim)” to the joyous return to their homeland “coming to Zion with glad song, with eternal gladness.”