Reyna HamsaMarch 2022 Sterling silver, pearl I make my wife a lot of jewelry, but it's mostly unsolicitedshe doesn't actually wear that much of the stuff. So when she asked me to make her a talisman, I took note. She'd been wearing one of my own hamsot for a few weeks, and decided she wanted one that was more personalized. We came up with this delicate, almost gossamer fine design. She chose a pearl for the gem in the hamsa which is a perfect choice on multiple

As each branch passes through the diagonal of the shield

the space between the two cherubim on the cover of the Ark of the Covenant

and to accomplish the feat of 25 years of marriage—this is truly divine

I also had leftover silver that I'd cut off the square sheets that I used to make the top and bottom domes of the base

000 in Chinese culture is that it isn't just the literal number

He didn't want a cuff or a bangle

which has an extraordinarily runish look to it

I wondered if one of the Kabbalistic Seventy-Two Names of God happened to be comprised of their three initials

The frosted Czech glass beads nestled between the alternating blue and green turquoise of this necklace remind me simultaneously of the white-capped waves on the azure seas surrounding Hawai‘i and the light-flecked reefs of variegated corals just beneath the surface

Iron is traditional for the sixth anniversary but last year I erroneously had it in my head that the sixth anniversary was wool and I skipped iron

May the light of their marriage shine brightly forever

but perhaps that's just because it's intent on getting its meaning across