Sculptor Ilan Averbuch was born in Tel Aviv and lives in New York. His work has been exhibited widely in the United States, Europe, Israel, India, and Canada. Averbuch’s monumental indoor and outdoor sculptures are often made of common construction materials such as stone, wood, metal, and glass, and have architectural, archaeological, and biblical themes. In 2008, the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York commissioned him to create several large sculptures to celebrate the opening of its new gallery.
Lampstand (menorah) depiction from Jerusalem in a plaster engraving (1st century BCE–1st century CE). It is difficult to reconstruct what the lampstands of Exodus 25:31–35 and 1 Kings 7:49 looked like…
The process of ritual purification of a dead body, known as taharah, involves careful cleaning of the corpse. Prior to being dressed in a white cotton shroud, the body of the deceased is washed, the…
When Israel went forth from Egypt,
the house of Jacob from a people of strange
speech,
Judah became His holy one,
Israel, His dominion.
The sea saw them and fled,
Jordan ran backward,
mountai…