The Spiritual Jewelry of David Weitzman

The Israeli silversmith David Weitzman calls himself a cosmic jewelry artist. For many years he has been studying the Kabala, Tibetan Buddhism, the ancient Egypt and the mysterious Atlantis. This gives him an inspiration for his marvelous jewelry, all of which have deep symbolic meaning and do something to the person, who wears them. "I want to create something that unites people instead of divides them, something that transcends religion."
David Weitzman has named his studio and his website Ka, an ancient Egyptian concept for life force or soul, which has existed eternally and always continues to exist, even after it has left the body. Chi or Lotus could also have been options because - although these symbols from a totally different part of the world - they stand for precisely the same idea: The absolute perfection of life force, the creation and order of matter. And beyond that, a glimpse of the Truth with a capital T, which is so desirable for the mystic person and the searcher. David is both. For many years he has been obsessed with studying the Kabala, Tibetan Buddhism, the Ancient Egypt and the remnants of Atlantis, which in his opinion must have been the cradle of the old and powerful religions. He designs dazzling jewelry based on the powerful symbols of these religions and many people claim that the rings and pendants that he creates somehow contain spirituality. They often experience a sweeping change in their inner and outer world, precisely the change they needed or were looking for. "Of course this is so," says David over a somewhat creaky telephone line from Tel Aviv. "But this has nothing to do with me personally. This is simply the power of the symbol."
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The searcher and the artist are in the meantime at peace with a knowledge that he has always possessed, this is what emerges from his story. But it wasn't always easy. 'I was already a bit 'strange' in kindergarten. You know how young boys are: they brag about their fathers and are always trying to outdo each other.
I would stand there and look and think to myself: OK, they're not dumber or smarter than anyone else. Strangely enough, I knew that everything would pass us by, that we will get older and ultimately disappear. As a kid every weekend I was allowed to stay over with a friend, who lived in a beautiful house with his father. There was a giant garden in the back with plants and trees, birds everywhere, absolutely fascinating. I often used to ask myself; how did they about? What has created them and who has given them these colors and forms? I understood that something must command all this and I wanted to look for it. I was then four or five years old. I still see myself staring out the window at the starry sky: Thinking about the stars, about the galaxies that came before these, one atmosphere after another and beyond a pure white light. But I was also very scared. I had the feeling that I could also be sucked into it and disappear. Very scary." David passed his exams and graduated from high school not knowing what he wanted to do. The future was exceedingly vague, but oh well¡­he still had to do his military service, and, in Israel, that takes three years. "I was stationed on the Golan Heights close to the Syrian border. That was a nice time, because there were no wars and the Golan Heights was one of the most magical places on earth. If you threw a stone against a mountain wall, you felt as if the entire earth trembled. I was very happy there. In the evenings I played guitar and in the mornings I would watch eagles circling around above the valley.