#magen david
Another fleece lap blanket made as a Chanukah gift. It was amazing how out-of-square the fabric was; I had to straighten it out so the lines of stars went straight across the fabric.
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Alright so, I’m really baffled by this, but are mezuzah necklaces actually a thing? I saw several on Amazon while I was looking for a new Magen David necklace for my daughter, and it smells like Messianic bullshit willful misinterpretation to me, but…I don’t know…
Sword Magen David ⚔️
also made a trans version! this is my original design (I am a trans jew) and was made to represent the Star of David and the strength of the Jewish people.
will be available as a necklace soon so stay tuned :)
Thinking about how in Hebrew, the Star of David is called Magen David, which means Shield of David, because of the legend that it was the symbol on King David’s shield.
Butwho was the real shield in David’s life? The one who would constantly try to protect him from King Shaul and his army, who put his life and honour on the line defending him multiple times?
Yonatan.
The Magen David isYonatan.
Yonatan gave David his weapons when he fell in love with him, but not his shield. Why would that be? Maybe it’s because Yonatan was his shield.
When David sings a surge lamenting the deaths of Shaul and Yonatan, there’s a line that goes as such:
“Behold in Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you, or bountiful fields; for there the shield of warriors, the shield of Shaul were rejected, no longer anointed with oil.”
It’s interesting that Yonatan isn’t mentioned in this stanza, but Shaul is.
But upon analysis of the context….David was a poet.
He wouldn’t have to mention a person by name in order to mention them.
What if the “shield of warriors” wasn’t a physical shield, but Yonatan?
David and Shaul were both warriors, Yonatan never was. He gave away his weapons to David, he was skilled with the bow but the only time we see him use it is to send a coded signal to David. Yonatan was called weak by his father for his lack of aggression- he was always the defender and never the offender.
Yonatan is the shield.
Perhaps when we wear our Magen David necklaces, or embroider and carve them into our Judaica, we are wearing a symbol of Yonatan- a man who chose love over war.
