In this proposal, we have envisioned twenty-two
glass etchings, depicting the twenty-two gates enumerated
in the acrostic prayer, the "Patach Lanu".
Each etching features the name of the gate, with the first
letter carved deepest and enlarged.
The "Patach Lanu" is an acrostic
poem, recited at the close of the Yom Kippur service,
in which we beseech Adonai to "Open the Gates of Righteousness
to us all." The names of the gates correspond to
the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
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