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Friday, June 10, 2022 10:00 AM EDT
June 10 | 10:00 AM
At the Chrysler Museum of Art
FREE and open to the community
Registration required, space is limited
Join Clay Barr for a special tour of The Guiding Hand: The Barr Foundation Collection of Torah Pointers at the Chrysler Museum of Art, led by the collector herself. Due to the small size of the objects on display, space is extremely limited.
For hundreds of years, Jews used simple tapered wooden sticks to point the way through the text of the Torah without touching the fragile handwritten animal-skin parchment surface. These pointers are called “yads” – literally the Hebrew word for hand יד because of the miniature hands that are typically featured on the tip of the pointer. Yads are personal, individualized objects and have developed into a unique art form with great variety since there are no rules governing their form.
Presented by the Konikoff Center for Learning at the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater
Friday, June 10, 2022 10:00 AM EDT