Ner Tamid at Kehilat Yedidia
Design >> Progress >> Finish
by Artist: Nathanael Putnam

Designed for Kehilat Yedidia in the Baka neighborhood of Jerusalem. A Ner Tamid is a light that is continually kept on in the synagogue, in rememberance of the continual lighting of the Menorah in the Temple. There is no traditional form of the Ner Tamid. It can not be in the form of the Menorah.

Cutting the brass sheets into pomogranates
Sizing the elements.
Subassembly.
Collar around bowl. This Mozarabic twelve century Spanish grill is called "open work". Open work is very tedious, time consuming work, requiring drilling of small holes after which you have to enter the saw blade, adjust it in the position, and carefully cut out the space to be opened. After which usually the work must be cleaned and touched up with filing. Filing of edges is usually done with tiny files, sometimes only the size of toothpicks. General buffing and polishing is difficult too, as abrasive oil based residues get caught in any rough areas.
Preparing to put it all together.

As it hangs at Kehilat Yedidia.

The letters that were to hang on the piece were put on the aron. See Here

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