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Rachel inquired of God about the struggle in her womb. She was told that there were two life forces striving to be born; two forces that will struggle with each other throughout time.
The twins are shown swirling, Yin/Yang like, in the womb, Jacob holding on to Esau's heel. The ladder of Jacob's later dream symbolizes man�s journey between Heaven and Earth.

I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I attended Parsons School of Design, Graphic Design Department, where I studied painting and drawing under Stephen Greene and Fred Koenigsberg and graduated in 1957. After a career as a Graphic Designer, I moved to Tucson in March 2005. It is the culmination of a long held dream…to live surrounded by the beauty of the Catalina Mountains, near some of my children and grandchildren, with the time and space to express some of my ideas for painting and sculpture. Before leaving NY, I started a series of Jewish Art I call “Visual Midrash” wherein I take a phrase or scene from Torah and express it as a visual commentary. I have continued to create “Visual Midrash” in Tucson and have also done...