Stained Glass Windows, More Than Just a Work of Art.
Art has been a constant in my life for as long as I can remember in many different mediums. Stained Glass was introduced when my grandfather retired and stumbled upon it as a hobby, and it quickly became an obsession that he was planning on turning into a business venture. We all joked growing up that we lived in “glass houses” as our homes quickly filled with the incredible one of a kind pieces of work he taught himself to create. Each of his four children and their spouses became proud owners before he decided to do large stained glass pictures for each of his grandchildren on their Bar or Bat Mitzvah. The picture above was given to me on my Bat Mitzvah. Being a Cohen, he couldn’t stop at just making a beautiful piece of art, but each piece of glass was imbued with meaning and Torah. He would sit and talk for hours about the hidden meaning that went into each piece but refused to write it down, stating that every person should get their own version of what the piece meant to them. Honestly, I couldn’t possibly remember what he told me on my Bat Mitzvah day as we sat on the couch together for hours and hours (probably not that long, but I was 12 and wanted to be out with my friends, and my grandfather could talk). But here’s what I did take away from this. ...
