The Old City Jewish Art Center Presents:

“Ethics of the Fathers (Pirkei Avot)
July 3-29, 2009

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The participating artists include: Marlene D’Orazio Adler, Kathleen Chapman, Bonnie Goldstein, Diana Taflin Myers, Merle Spandorfer, Carol Wit, and Lois Yampolsky exhibiting a variety of mediums that include collagraphs, monotypes, mixed media and collage, handmade paper and texture elements, etchings, laser prints, and more.        

About Ethics of the Fathers/Pirkei Avot…
Atop Mount Sinai, over the course of forty days and nights, G‑d taught Moses the entire Torah. The Torah was a two-part study: the "Written Torah," transcribed in the Five Books of Moses (and later extended to include all the 24 books of the Scriptures), and the "Oral Torah," a commentary on the Written Torah. The Oral Torah was orally transmitted from teacher to student for many generations.

Rabbi Judah the Prince felt that the Oral Law would be forgotten unless it was transcribed. So he compiled the basics into a six-part document called the Mishnah. The Mishnah contains 63 volumes (tractates) which discuss all areas of Jewish law.  The theme of this exhibition Ethics of the Fathers is devoted to the tractate Avot—literally translated as "Fathers."   “Avot”, is devoted to piety, humility, kindness and ethics.

Biographies for the artists are available here.

Gallery hours:  Tuesday-Thursday from 1-6 PM excluding religious holidays. 
The Ethics of the Fathers /Pirkei Avot Art Exhibition will run July 3-29 excluding religious holidays.  All artists are invited to submit images for review for future exhibitions at OCJAC to:  submissions@ocjac.org .