Beyond is bi-directional:
The Pardes Wall at the Contemporary Jewish Museum invites visitors to the exhibits therein, while the inside of the walls of the original Persian Gardens beckon with the promise of comfort and refreshment.
Both the Pardes Wall and the walls of the original Persian Gardens offer their treasures and wisdom to us who are beyond the walls. There is also much to be learned from how Pardes has evolved from the Persian to the contemporary branding by a variety of entities.
Pardes Wall at Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
โPaRDeS is a light installation embedded in the wall of the Grand Lobby at the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM). Its stylized Hebrew letters translate as โorchardโ โ the connotation is that the orchard can be found on the other side of the wall. Metaphorically then, the sweetness, or fruit, of learning and art can be found inside the museum.
As a form of mystical multiculturalism, PaRDeS reflects the museumโs intention to cultivate different interpretation levels. An introductory wall panel explains that in the Jewish mystical tradition, four Hebrew letters (pey, resh, dalet and samech) each stand for a level of biblical interpretation: the literal, the allusive, the allegorical and the hidden.โย
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