[Avodah] Stained Glass Windows

[Arie Folger]

I am happily corrected in the precise details, and these correspond
with what I now recall (my CC & C is unfortunately inaccessible, in
storage). Point is, we both agree that he had nothing against stained
glass windows in a shul (provided the imagery is appropriate). The
shofar part of the story is obviously conflated from his stand on non
mechitza synagogues.

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Joseph Kaplan <jkaplan at tenzerlunin.com> wrote:
> The letter (which is the first entry in CC&C) deals with the question of "human images on stained glass windows"; not simply stained glass windows.  RYBS's recommendation was not to have any representation of human form.  Nothing is said about shofar.  BTW, the windows were to be placed in an interfaith chapel at Cornell.  RYBS, although not asked, was opposed to having an interfaith chapel.  He was 1 for 2; they built the chapel but the stained glass windows portrayed only natural scenes; there were no human figures.



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