| Ever since Madonna walked in to the Kabballah | | | | jewelry to the two tablets (two bracelets) Moses |
| Centre, Jewish jewelry got a huge tailwind in the | | | | brought down from Sinai, the Ten |
| fashion business. Jewish jewelry in the form of | | | | Commandments (ten shekel weight) and the half |
| amulets, mystical whatnots, red strings, holy | | | | shekel silver coin every Jew had to give for the |
| water containers, and a litany of pop Jewish | | | | national census (half shekel weight of the nose |
| jewelry , or more accurately pseudo-Jewish | | | | ring). The Rabbis thereby linked Jewish prehistory |
| jewelry started popping up everywhere while | | | | with the beginning of Jewish history through |
| people who have never heard of the Babylonian | | | | Jewish jewelry. |
| Talmud started becoming fans of Rabbi Shimon | | | | The story of Jewish jewelry continues with all the |
| bar Yochai. It was all very strange and very | | | | gold and gems and precious stones that the Jews |
| confusing, and put Jewish jewelry at the forefront | | | | took from Egypt upon their flight from slavery |
| of cultural consciousness without warning. | | | | into the desert and Red Sea. This Jewish jewelry |
| This Jewish jewelry stuff all came into the market | | | | served two purposes – one good, and the |
| only recently. Hamsas, evil eye charms, Seal of | | | | other very bad. On the one hand, it was used to |
| Solomon pendants, they're all very new, if loosely | | | | make the Golden Calf, which was very shortly |
| based on general Semitic fashion trends in Arabia | | | | thereafter ground up into dust, thrown into water, |
| centuries ago. However, going back to the source | | | | and drunk by the Jews on Moses' order. The |
| of Jewish jewelry, one encounters a rich history | | | | Jews then had to remove the remainder their |
| replete with stories surrounding Jewish jewelry | | | | Jewish jewelry on God's order in embarrassment |
| and magnificent construction tasks with precious | | | | for what they had done. |
| stones and metals. One can also find tragic stories | | | | This colossal mistake was later corrected when |
| of Jewish jewelry that, if you track the | | | | the remainder of the Jewish jewelry was used in |
| redemptive process of the Jewish people, can | | | | the construction of the Tabernacle and Aaron's |
| tear your heart out. | | | | High Priestly wardrobe, complete with precious |
| The first story, at least that I can think of, | | | | gems on the breastplate and solid gold structures |
| involving Jewish jewelry way back when is | | | | for the moving sanctuary. |
| Rebecca's betrothal to Isaac. Eliezer, Abraham's | | | | Later in Deuteronomy, the Jews are commanded |
| head of household, finds Rebecca, who graciously | | | | to destroy ever piece of religious jewelry they |
| waters his camels, at which point he becomes | | | | encounter that is not Jewish jewelry. All the gold |
| convinced that she is the right woman for Isaac. | | | | they find that is used for idol worship must be |
| He then immediately gives Rebecca two pieces of | | | | destroyed. All the silver, all the stones, all of it. |
| Jewish jewelry (if the Jewish people could be said | | | | This is markedly different from converting |
| to have existed yet). Two gold bracelets weighing | | | | Egyptian jewelry to Jewish jewelry as they had |
| ten shekels and one gold nose ring weighing half a | | | | done upon leaving Egypt. Yet another indication of |
| shekel. | | | | the Jewish people growing up and maturing on |
| The Rabbis later analogized these pieces of Jewish | | | | their Jewish journey of Jewish jewelry. |