[Jewelry making - Article 00479] - Re: [Orchid] [Tidbits] Italian Jewish Wedding Ring

[Karen Dandrea]

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    MIZPAH goes back thousands of years, symbolizing a sanctuary and
    place of hopeful anticipation, a place where seemingly impossible
    may happen as of divine intervention or an inspiration. 

    MIZPAH is mentioned for the first time in the Bible ( Genesis 31,
    around 1800 BC) as a powerful watchword, when Jacob and Laban agree
    at Gilead to a godsent peace. They built a memento of stone and
    named it like their wise covenant MIZPAH, saying: The Lord watch
    between me and thee when we are absent one from another". Mizpah of
    Gilead became the "blueprint" for more places called MIZPAH in the
    Scriptures. 

    Building MIZPAH monuments was an ancient tradition in the promised
    land. MIZPAH signified a striking humane, tolerant and solution
    orientated approach to human issues, (a thought and act more than
    becoming to certain corners of the globe today). 

    Before MIZPAH, and sadly until today too everything was about
    material possessions, hatred, power - the holy scriptures alone are
    full of it, let alone history. MIZPAH introduced the clearly defined
    moral qualities of GOODNESS, KINDNESS and the courage to
    UNDERSTANDING to a time so very tough that we can hardly imagine it
    now. Yet everything, any obstacle can be overcome with good will and
    determination. That was, is and always will be the heart of the true
    meaning of MIZPAH. 
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