Berit Engen WEFT and D'RASH – A Thousand Jewish Tapestries


THE JOSEPH STORY AS IF CHANTED
– A Seemingly Endless Shalshelet
 
My version of the Genesis story about Joseph, the longest single story in the Torah, is a series of 115 tapestries woven to verses that advance the narrative.
 
Shalshelet is the name of the by-far longest of the cantillation tropes or short melody phrases used in chanting the Hebrew Bible. Shalshelet is used only four times in the Torah, and in three of the cases it appears when the story is at a consequential crossroads. Its written symbol is a zigzag line which is fitting for the back-and-forth and up-and-down musical movement of this stretched-out phrase.
 
In illustrating the emotional Joseph story, I chose to emphasize my choice of one keyword or phrase within a verse with a metallic thread  echoing how cantillation phrases (in the Masoretic text) are chosen for emphasis.
 

- 89 tapestries (series in progress).
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