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.  Without understanding, there is no knowledge."

The oneness of God is the central idea of Judaism. This idea is expressed in the prayer, "Shema," in which we bear witness to the fact that God is Echad. The oneness of man is symbolized by the common meaning of the Shema, translated into a multiplicity of languages.

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.

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.

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.

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am for myself alone, what am I." The profile of a young person's face looking at the world. Thinking of oneself, thinking of one's community. A ladder symbolizes life, the climb and Torah, the guide for the climb.

A fractured vessel emits the letters of the Hebrew Alphabet, the raw material of creation. This pomegranate-shaped volcano alludes to the Kabalistic image of the vessel which could not contain the light of G-d. A pomegranate is a symbol of Torah by virtue of its 613 seeds.

The most salient feature of this window are the crystals,  actual quartz healing crystals, which protrude from the surface of the panel.  The clouds are rendered by a technique of multi-stage sandblast etching on flashed glass.  The molecular arrangement of crystallized water, i.e. ice,  is shown, in the circular designs at bottom.  This window, on the theme of the second day,  is all about the three states of matter, how liquid becomes solid and dry land emerges from the sea .

On Day Three, Adonai brings life into the creation, for the first time. With the command, "Let there be seed-bearing plants of all kinds," the world burst into flower.

The gears of the universe were set in motion on the fourth Day of Cretion, when God creates time.

"Let the seas bring forth swarms..."  Fish, birds, reptiles and all oviparous life was brought forth on the Earth in Day 5.

On Day 6, God brings into the Universe,  humanity, it all it's multiplicity.