“Adam & Eve” prayer shawl

1981

COMMISSIONED FOR RABBI ELYSE FRISHMAN ON THE OCCASION OF HER ORDINATION

Although religious thought in many times and places blame Eve for humanity’s expulsion from Eden, this design expresses a contemporary feminist midrash. 

Both Adam and Eve are represented as being different, yet a necessary complement to the other.  Eve, on the wearer’s left, is silver or moon-coloured; while Adam, on the right, is gold of the sun.  Both share the primary colours, and both, according to the midrash, accept mutual responsibility.