davka | דוקא | despite everything

Psalm 97:11a

א֭וֹר זָרֻ֣עַ לַצַּדִּ֑יק
Light is sown for the righteous…

In the New Year, as we seek to tend to our world in righteousness,
may the light sown within it shine within us as well.

The image on this year’s card uses the first three words of Psalm 97:11 in three fonts and colors:

• אור — Light: uses sil­ver in a font called Stam Ashke­naz CLM. [STaM (סת״ם)] is an acronym for: Sifrei Torah (ספרי תורה) Torah scrolls; Tefill­in (תפילין) worn dur­ing prayer; Mezu­zot (מזוזות) scrolls affixed to doorposts.]
• זרע — Sown like seeds buried in the earth: uses brown in a mod­ern script font called Dana Yad AlefAlefAlef.
• צדיק- Right­eous: uses blue in a tra­di­tion­al Euro­pean font called Yid­dishkeit AlefAlefAlef.

the printing process

the first block “right­eous” as the sky:

the sec­ond block “light” shines/radiates:

third block “sown” in the soil of our world:

the light shines on the righteous:

…from being sown under­neath in the world.

Linoleum cut pro­duced by Mark, Sum­mer 2025
©Mark Hurvitz 2025

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