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The art reflects inclusiveness. "I painted a large variety of people to have the kids be able to find resonance in the images." In a picture for the Amidah, many different ethnicities, as well as a number of different age groups of people, are represented.
The Amidah prayer is a prayer that "speaks about many different generations; it is both a personal as well as a communal prayer. In that picture," Rothenberg says, "you can see a teenager doing some soul-searching alongside someone who is much older."
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The artwork for the Aleinu is of a lamb and lion in a peaceful pose. Rothenberg says the picture puts forth the idea "that everyone in conflict can find peace - sometimes by bending the rules - from among each other." "Whenever I pray now, I think of the artwork from this siddur," Rothenberg said.
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