THE WINDOW OF TRUTH
designed by SOL NODEL, F.R.S.A.


    This WINDOW OF TRUTH, located in the community mausoleum, is a stained glass art window, measuring approximately seventeen feet high and twenty feet across and is composed of thirty panels, containing over thirty-five hundred individual pieces of glass.
    The glass used in this window is antique or flash glass, which is hand-made, mouth-blown glass.
    The window is based on the three letters ALEPH, MEM, TAPH, which spell the Hebrew word EMETH meaning TRUTH.
    The word EMETH rises upward from the lower right hand corner of the window emanating from the burning bush, where God first revealed himself to Moses.  The design of the ALEPH culminates into angel wings and a hand, with a finger pointing heavenward -THE BEGINNING OF ALL TRUTH IS WITH GOD.
    Out of the center of infinity, rises the CROWN OF GOD, in the calligraphically designed Hebrew letter SHIN, which designates the name of the Almighty.  The quotation which further glorifies the name of God reads: MAGNIFIED AND SANCTIFIED BY HIS GREAT NAME and rises in a red band from the lower left hand corner upwards.
    In a semi-circle around the hand is the Hebrew equivalent: YITGADAL VEYITKADASH SHMAI RABAH.  The finger points to the VEYITKADASH, which means SANCTIFIED.
    The heart of the infinity section is the great light which symbolizes God and around which are the emerald colored pieces, designating the twelve tribes of Israel.
    Our astronauts, Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins, made their historical flight into space during the designing of this window and Mr. Nodel was so inspired that he added Earth and the Moon as seen from outerspace.

MAY THIS WINDOW BE A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION AND FAITH FOR ALL MANKIND, FOR GENERATIONS YET UNBORN.

New Mt. Sinai Cemetery
8430 Gravois Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63123
Phone: 314-353-2540  Fax: 314-353-5865 
E-mail us at www.newmtsinaicemetery@netzero.net