Word: naphtali
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found in Moses' instructions in Exodus that a dozen precious gems be engraved with the names of the twelve tribes. Chagall suffused each window with a single brilliant color on which he painted Joseph's description of the tribes of Israel found in Genesis and Deuteronomy, i.e., Naphtali is described as "a hind let loose," Zebulun as dwelling "at the haven of the sea." For Chagall, the challenge then became to join image and material: "The material is the material of nature, and all that is of nature is religious. For a cathedral or a synagogue...