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Posted By Digidave 1 year, 6 months ago in Arts & EntertainmentWhen deciphered, the jagged lights on the sloping lobby wall of the new Contemporary Jewish Museum that opened here on Sunday form four Hebrew letters that spell out pardes. That word has the same Persian root as the English word paradise. It alludes to a park, a garden, an orchard, and thus invokes the pastoral promise of Eden as well.
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erichines1 year, 6 months ago
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What a beautiful work of architecture
However the article could have had more pictures of what is actually going to be in the museum
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