The Holy Day
Ami Epstein & Yehuda Dachman 

This project on sacred time was a very fun project to do. It was a challenge on a new level that required outside of the box thinking and lots of work and hours into making our project. Our project is based of of the quote “וַיְבָ֤רֶךְ אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶת־י֣וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י וַיְקַדֵּ֖שׁ אֹת֑וֹ כִּ֣י ב֤וֹ שָׁבַת֙ מִכׇּל־מְלַאכְתּ֔וֹ אֲשֶׁר־בָּרָ֥א אֱלֹהִ֖ים לַעֲשֽׂוֹת׃ {פ} And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy—having ceased on it from all the work of creation that God had done.” בראשית ב:ג This quote is talking about how the seventh day, Shabbat, is the holy day that G-d took his time to let it be sacred so he could rest. We took this quote and interpreted it into a wheel of time where it spins endlessly with no end, the work days going on forever, but then you have the sacred holy day of Shabbat, which brings a calming energy of relaxing joy. Joy and happiness is often shown as light, that is why we decided to make a wheel with each day of creation building up with more and more light until, boom, Shabbat is that day completely full of light. That is why we made it empty on Shabbat, to show the joy of the sacred day of rest with the bright light.

 

This design process was a challenge for us that required lots of steps to get to the end product. First we had to brainstorm an idea based on a Jewish text, and then come up with a way to show it in a design process that included building and designing in CorelDraw and in Tinkercad. This was very fun but also stressful at times to try and finish the project within the deadline, and having much to do. We have deeply enjoyed this assignment and open our arms to problem solving and thinking outside the box challenges. This was one of those challenges because of all the steps and processes needed to complete the project.

 

Here are the steps we had to go through to complete this assignment. First we had to think of a topic and a good quote to use, surprisingly, this took lots of time. Then we had to draw and assemble and set in stone our idea. Then we had to design it in CorelDraw and Tinkercad. This took the majority of our time because if we messed up the scale or design by even a small factor, we would have to redo the entire piece of the project which takes time, and it happened often. Thirdly, we had to assemble, and with 4 weeks left, it was very stressful and time consuming. We eventually finished with hours left until the deadline, and spent extra time working on it so it would work and be good. We have gone through every step of the design process from start to finish, and we have learned a lot about design thinking and enjoyed this project.