Im Tirtzu RingJanuary 2005 Sterling silver The Hebrew phrase running the circumference of this ring is (im tirtzu ein zo agadah), which means "if you will it, it is no dream." The phrase was Theodore Herzl's rallying cry for the Zionist movement prior to the establishment of the State of Israel, and resonates deeply in the Jewish heart. Even detached from the Zionist movement, it's a great sentimentbasically, you can do anything in life that you truly set your mind

at least) the swirling motion of a galactic cloud

They're terrible on a keychain or around the neck

but as the design grew I decided that it would be even more meaningful to include the context around that core thought

Is it a star nursery

I decided to put into a ring

The focal point of the ring is a depiction of a latte stone with a tasa (capstone) made of white gold and a haligi (pillar) made from a pear-shaped sapphire

and the two sets of three bumps on the left side of the piece represent the hinges on the inside of the door

I had been wanting to make a Turkic-style hamsa for a while

As I was looking through a drawer in my workbench

is the most identifiable object in the Solar System on account of its distinctive rings

Part of the beauty of how the two bands fit together is that the three stones in the ring run dead center down the middle of the fitted set's width

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