Home blessings

I have created linocuts with the three different versions of home blessings as outlined here >

The modern "home blessing" Birkat haBayit (בִּרְכָּת הָבָּיִת)

Because the Birkat haBayit is not a blessing in a religious sense but a petition to G"d for the welfare of the house and it´s inhabitants, I adopted it often in conjunction with the hamsa, which is a is a palm-shaped amulet popular throughout the Middle East.

 

Birkat HaBayit with Chilean hummingbird Sephnoides sephanoides

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Hamsa with Birkat haBayit and copihue (Lapageria rosea), the Chilean national flower

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Hamsa with Birkat haBayit and copihue (Lapageria rosea), the Chilean national flower

 

Hamsa with Birkat haBayit "Valparaiso to Jerusalem"

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Hamsa with Houseblessing Birkat haBayit and Menorah in front of mountains. Inspired by the general setting and the concrete menorah in front of the modern Círculo Israelita de Santiago Synagogue

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Houseblessing Birkat haBayit with Inca tern (Larosterna inca)

 

Hamsa with Houseblessing Birkat haBayit, the Israeli national bird (Hoopoe, Upupa epops) and the Israeli national flower (Cyclamen persicum)

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Hamsa with Homeblessing Birkat haBayit and the plant añañuca (Rhodophiala rhodolirion) from the high Andes

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The traditional home blessing from Devarim / Deuteronomy 28.6

Home blessing - Art Nouveau 1 (black edition on Japanese paper)

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Home blessing - Art Nouveau 1 (black edition)

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Home blessing - Art Nouveau 1 (blue edition)

 

Houseblessing Devarim 28:6) with Pelican Pelecanus thagus

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Houseblessing (Devarim 28:6) with Fuchsia. Handcoloured edition of 24.

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Houseblessing (Devarim 28:6) with Fuchsia. Blue edition of 24.

 

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An alternative "home blessing" from Psalm 121:8

Homeblessing Siret

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Homeblessing Crowns

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Homeblessing - Rehue, Krakow