
Iyar Print (12×16)
The embers of Iyar ignite this smaller print. Details: This museum-quality print is made on thick and durable matte paper. • Paper thickness: 10.3 mil • Paper weight: 5.57 oz/y² (189 g/m²) • Giclée printing quality • Opacity: 94%

Iyar Print (18×24)
The flames of Iyar ignite this medium print. Details: This museum-quality print is made on thick and durable matte paper. • Paper thickness: 10.3 mil • Paper weight: 5.57 oz/y² (189 g/m²) • Giclée printing quality • Opacity: 94%

Iyar Print (24 x 36)
The blaze of Iyar ignites this larger print. Details: This museum-quality print is made on thick and durable matte paper. • Paper thickness: 10.3 mil • Paper weight: 5.57 oz/y² (189 g/m²) • Giclée printing quality • Opacity: 94%
Iyar: Duality
Iyar is the second month of the Jewish religious calendar.- Planet: Saturn (bottom middle)
- Zodiac: Taurus (שור) (bottom middle)
- Patriarch: Avraham (represented by his hospitality tent, palm tree, and three angels; upper middle)
- Tribe: Yissachar (upper left)
Notable Events
Holiday of Lag B'Omer (represented by a boy’s upsherin (first haircut), a bow and arrow, bonfire on arrowhead), death of Shimon bar Yachai (symbolized by Kabbalistic Tree of Life on the carob tree that sustained him while in the cave studying)A spring month, Iyar is all about new beginnings and second chances—thus, there are many references to rebirth and the number two:
- An Upsherin, traditional first haircut for Jewish boys, marking their entrance into formal Jewish education (bottom left)
- The rededication of the walls of Jerusalem, after they were initially destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar (bottom right)
- Pesach Sheni, the sacrifice for people who were ritually impure during Passover (the two altars; top left)
- A bow and arrow, representing God giving humanity a second chance; a symbol of Lag B’Omer, it itself references when God displayed a rainbow after almost destroying the entire world with the flood. It supposedly was like a bow and arrow pointed away from the Earth (middle)
- Shimon Bar Yochai himself was given a second lease on life, fleeing to safety after the Roman government put a death warrant on his head for his criticism of their rule. Legend has it that he found refuge in a cave, and a carob tree and spring miraculously burst forth and sustained him. It is said that he developed Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, while in his cave exile
- The Kabbalah discusses the Tree of Life and the Tree of Death, the bow and arrow has been drawn into light and dark areas, accordingly
- The kabbalistic symbol of the hamsa, also adorning the bow and arrow, reference the two hands
- The three angels who visited Abraham, giving his wife Sarah a second chance at a child
- Many iterations of the number two: two animals (donkey and bull), two loads on the donkey representing Issachar, two people (child and old man), two of each instrument, and two altars
- On Yaakov’s deathbed, he compared his son Issachar to a donkey with two loads, who finds it more comfortable to settle down than carry on (meaning he preferred to study, compared to his counterpart Zebulun who became a merchant).