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Jewish Museum Gift Shop - Tobi Kahn was the first artist to make a tzedek box. Acknowledgment by Dr. Bernard Heller Museum For the past five years, Andrew Kaplan Mandel, a fifth-year student at the Hebrew Union College Institute of Religion, has been pursuing a "hobby." Mandel organized events in New York and Jerusalem, where he asked leaders of Jewish organizations and synagogues to develop new ideas for "what it would be like to increase the frequency and the depth of Jewish justice at work in the [new] ritual. or holiday." At both events, someone suggested the idea of a tzedek box - instead of coins, people would put in thoughts of doing tzedek, or justice, to improve us the world, including volunteering, advocacy or financial aid. Then once a year on the day, Yom HaTzedek, one will open the box and reflect on their actions of tzedek . Mandel, who will join Central Synagogue as an assistant pastor after he graduates, "because it helps us not to have the holiday as an event, like a mitzvah that happens and then passes away . Here, the tzedek box you carry for the whole year. "One result of Mandel's dedication is Tzedek Boxes: Justice Must Be Done at the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum in Greenwich Village where 31 tzedek boxes, each made by artisans Heller Museum director Jean Bloch Rosensaft hopes that the current exhibit will put the tzedek box on the map, and in Jewish families, in a meaningful way, as the museum did in 1997 when it hosted the exhibit where artists created Miriam's cup, making it popular. using that ritual object in Jewish families. "The culture of our behavior not on Yom Kippur but every day is a Jewish concept," Mandel said. our actions and our choices slow us down and help us keep things and responsibility for our time." sacred responsibility" that will make people more efficient in their acts of tzedek. "We say we're about tikkun olam," says Mandel, "but the box doesn't lie." It has information in it. What do we really do? What do our records tell us?” This new holiday aims to fall on Pesach Sheni, the holiday celebrated before the Temple was destroyed, a day, as Mandel says, "of the second chance, the promotion of prosperity ." One year after the Exodus from Egypt, the Israelites celebrated the Passover to God, then ate that night. A group of Israelites wanted to celebrate Passover but were not allowed to do so; they are considered unclean because they have touched a dead body. They thought that this was not fair so they told Moses and Aaron who agreed to create a new law establishing Pesach Sheni, the second Passover, on the 14th of Iyar, for those who have layer is similar. The first artist Mandel approached with his tzedek box idea was Tobi Kahn, who eventually made seven boxes, one of which is on display. Kahn said that they invited other artists, each following a simple instruction: Imagine the boat to contain the writings of the act of tzedek. Every office should have an opening for inserting letters and a box for them. Many artists are inspired by the urgent need to save the environment and the ocean. Rachel Kanter created "For the Trees," a wall hanging made of hand-dyed cotton with silk embroidery of a forest image so that it looks like leaves floating in the background, with 12 bags jacket of many different sizes, designed to hold a year's worth. of monthly notes. Dutch artist Yona Verwer created "Foedraal" (Dutch for box), a soft globe made of mixed media of aluminum to represent the ocean. Marisa Baggett's "Free Flow," an acrylic container with blue resin inside that mimics water, shows examples of water as justice. "Like water when blocked in its path to create a new path, justice must flow," Baggett said, reminding us that we can change the world through justice. right where they want. On his box, the words of the prophet Amos appear: "Let justice roll down like water and justice like a river flowing forever." Tobi Kahn's "Zahryz III," is painted a cobalt blue that reflects the ocean. The top of the box has 70 points that represent international agreements for 70 countries. "I think that's a Jewish perspective, that we need to take care of the water," Kahn said. “More than 100 years [water] will be the most difficult to get; it will be as valuable as gold and precious metal. So, I want it to look like water and I also want it to feel like the inside of the box is a different blue than the outside of the box. And I want to think about shamayim, heaven and earth, and bein hashemashot, which is twilight and twilight is when you can't tell the difference between day and night. So the outside of the box is day and the inside is more night. "Water also inspires artists Dorit Jordan Dotan and Judith Joseph. Dotan, an Israeli artist, and Joseph, an artist and teacher who lives in Chicago, created "Cast Your Bread Upon the Waters ," the images and installations represent how they each wrote their acts of tzedek in Hebrew and English on paper, joined them on a jute string by praying the flag, then put the paper in a bottle, close it, and throw it into the waters of the Mediterranean with the hope that whoever sees it will be inspired to act. Some of the exhibits of other tzedek boxes are opulent, made of gold leaf, brass or pewter. Others are made of simple materials but act as powerful objects of memory. Beth Krensky created "A House for Doris," a wooden house with an open window as an aperture to write, in memory of his mother, Doris, who grew up in poverty and taught him that justice is the only way. change the world. On one wall, his mother's words were written: “I want to remember my kindness to others, for taking care of me. Do something to change the world so that people are kind, compassionate, caring and giving. "The box evokes the memory of wooden churches or houses in the shtetls of Eastern Europe. Tina Marcus' "The Collection Box" uses found objects - rusted metal tablecloths, metal that evokes barbed metal fences, and stones from the Dachau concentration camp - to evoke the Holocaust and "to make sure that we do the future with good." very," Mandel said. "What's important to me is what you put in the box. I think you can have a cardboard box or a cigar box. But these artists have expanded my thought." While the purpose behind the tzedek box is to make people think about their own actions of trying to heal the world, the effect of this exhibition is to make the viewer think many problems in the world today, and realize the power and potential of all communities to go out into the world and do good, with the power of acting for the vision to, as Mandel said, "promote the religion to another level." Tzedek Boxes: Justice Shall You Pursue is on Dr. Bernard Heller Museum through May 18. Correction: This story has been edited to clarify the meaning of tzedek and to replace the incorrect reference to "the act of tzedakah" with the phrase "performance of tzedek." We are happy to make this story available for reprinting for free, unless it is originally from JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as mentioned in the article) and as long as you follow our advice. You need to credit Forward, keep our pixel and keep our canonical link in Google search. See our full guide for more tips, and this detailed guide on canonical URLs. To reprint, copy the HTML by clicking on the yellow button to the right; it includes our tracking pixel, full article format and hyperlinks, author byline and credit to Forward. It does not include pictures; to avoid legal violations, you must add them manually, following our instructions. Please email us at [email protected], subject line "republish," with any questions or to let us know what stories you're saving. Please use Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge to view this site. David Schaecter in Block 8 of Auschwitz-Birkenau on April 24, 2023. His wife, Sydney Carpel, is at left and an IDF officer meets them. Confessions of Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces David Schaecter was 11 when the Nazis imprisoned him in Cell Block 8 in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp. They starved and tortured him there for nearly three years. On Monday, about eight decades after his imprisonment, the now 94-year-old returned to Block 8. He was the first Holocaust survivor, and the first member of the public since the Second World War. Internationally 2nd, enter the site, which is part of Poland's government-funded Auschwitz Museum. "I'm heartbroken, I'm shaking, I remember," Schaeter told the Forward in a phone interview from Jerusalem on Wednesday, two days after his visit to Auschwitz. by phone from Jerusalem on Wednesday. "For me to return in this gehinnom [Hebrew for purgatory] is not easy," and he remembers the many times he was beaten there. Schaecter, who has returned to Auschwitz about 20 times as part of the March for the Living, said he had been turned away every time he tried to enter the cell block in the past. One of the founders of the march, as well as the Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach, Florida, Schaecter came to Poland this year with his wife, Sydney Carpel, as part of the "Holocaust for Independence" target of 125 participants from friends of the Israel Defense Forces. Before entering Block 8, he told the group what happened to him during the Holocaust and asked them to "come to witness" in himself. "I want you to talk to every child you meet about your experience here," she said. "I'm sure I'll never come back here again." When they first entered the cell block, Carpel said they walked upstairs to what looked like a waiting room, and then to the barracks that once had beds - but he didn't. there is nothing. They entered another room. "David said this is who he is in," he said. "He told me he thought of it with all that furniture."

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