Lily Shin Yad in Sterling Silver

This stylized yad is handmade by Aimee Golant from sterling silver.  It measures 4" long and has a chain is 8" long.  The curves at the end represent both a Lily and a Shin.  Shin is the 21st letter of the alphabet and stands for Peace, Femineity, Protection and Awareness

From the Artist: When I started metalsmithing, it was as if I took the tools out of my back pocket. It felt right. Clearly this was something I was meant to do– all the time. I was using my grandparents’ story of survival in the Holocaust for a paper in a university class on the Holocaust and Genocide when my grandfather started giving me his tools. With the help of a wonderful metal arts teacher the idea for my first mezuzahs came into being. They had flames, jail bars, and barbed wire on them, yet they preserved an important Jewish tradition that I was able to share.