In this composition the prayer, the "Shema" is rendered in 18 different languages

In this design, the sillouette of a young person's face contemplates the world, while thinking of others. "If I am not for myself, who will be for me. If I am for myself alone, what am I?"

Hands of many different colors are raised in unison all reaching for God.   In our struggle to know God, we are all the same.  Raised hands also mean something unique in a school setting.  All children, of all colors, all know the answer.

According to the mystics, the universe was created through the successive emanations of the "Ten Seiferot. In this composition, sun, moon and seiferot hover above the "tohu v'vohu," or raw material of creation: the Hebrew alphabet.

For a school, knowledge is life, even though these two concepts are diametrically opposed in the Garden of Eden.  This tree, which is half white, half black, joins the two opposites.  Ten pomegranates, arranged in a circle, contain the symbols of the branches of knowledge taught at Heschel School.  The inscription, from Pirket Avot, translates, "Without knowledge there is no understanding.

The Torah is shown here surrounded by the "fence" of the Talmud. Each page of the surrounding scroll is a perfectly rendered page of the Talmud. The Torah with pomegranate rimonims is held aloft by two hands and is surrounded by the 54 phases of the moon, corresponding to the 54 Torah portions of the yearly cycle of readings.

A dove, with olive branch, swoops over three skylines of Jerusalem.  The present, international Jerusalem, showing flags of many nations represents the open access of Jerusalem to all peoples of the world.