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Be as strong as a leopard, as light as an eagle, as swift as a
deer, as brave as a lion to do the will of your Father in heaven.
Sayings of the Fathers 5:23 (from the Jewish Talmud)
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King of the Beasts and symbol of the Tribe of Judah, the lion
appears throughout the Book of Books from beginning to end.
Samson, David, and Benaiah all slaughtered them, the Lord
shielded Daniel in their den, they adorned the bases of the Temple
and the stairs leading up to Solomon's throne, and towns are
named for them in the Galilee (Tel el Assad, "Lion Hill" and Dier el
Assad, "Home of the Lion"). Lions were indeed quite common in
the Holy Land up until the twelfth century, appearing on Roman
and Byzantine mosaics in the preceding eras, but seem to have
vanished with the arrival of the European crusaders.
Nevertheless, great cats still make their home in Israel today.
Wildcats roam from north to south, the sandcat dwells in the
Arava depression, the jungle cat goes swimming wherever it finds
water, the caracal prowls about central and southern Israel, and
last but not least, leopards lurk all over the Land, but seem to
especially fancy the oasis of Ein Gedi in the Negev desert. The
modern resident of Israel rarely comes into contact with these
elusive beasts, but urbanites everywhere are all too familiar with
their less frightful cousin: the domesticated housecat. Our T-Shirt,
whose text reads "The Nature Collection", is actually a tribute to
this cuddlier (and sometimes mangier) family of felines which
gathers not in the hills and deserts, but in our city trash bins.
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$12.95 |
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