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Designer: Miri Nistor
Love (Definitive Stamp)
“Vast floods cannot quench love, nor rivers
drown it” wrote King Solomon, the wisest among
men, in the Song of Songs, expressing the
intensity of one of the strongest emotions that
affect human motivation.
Over the years, love has been the inspiration
for countless books, songs, poems, plays and
films and under its influence people have
discovered the most positive and kindest
aspects of their personalities.
The instruction to love appears three times in
the Bible. People are required to love God and
strangers, and especially to fulfill the
commandment “Love your neighbor as yourself”
The special significance of loving others was
frequently emphasized by the Sages of Israel,
such as Rabbi Akiva, who said that this was a
“great rule of the Torah” and Hillel the Elder
defined it as “the entire Torah while standing
on one foot” (i.e. a concise summary of Jewish
principles)
Among all the various types of love, such as
parents’ love for their children, familial love and
love among friends, romantic love has gained
the most attention. The powerful emotional bond
and physical attraction that exist between loving
partners attain ultimate heights, as defined by
King Solomon in the Song of Songs when saying
“for love is fierce as death”
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The heart stamp completes this gesture, as the
letter is posted with a stamp that is all about
love. A large bright red heart, the traditional
place for harboring feelings, appears at the
center of the stamp. Although the heart symbol
does not resemble the actual shape of the
human heart, and there is debate among
researchers as to the source of its choice, this
symbol has traditionally been used to represent
love for more than 2000 years.
The tab of the stamp illustrates the fact that the
emotion of love is common to all cultures and
to all peoples, by incorporating the word “love”
in numerous languages.
Lovers may express their deep feelings for their
beloved in many different ways, but nothing
compares to the romantic gesture of sending
a love letter. The carefully chosen words,
perfumed paper, decorated envelope and
above all, the knowledge that the letter was
prepared by a loving hand, demonstrate the
sincerity of the sender’s feelings for the recipient.
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The Israel Philatelic Service - Tel: 972-76-8873933
12 Sderot Yerushalayim, Tel-Aviv-Yafo 68021
www.israelpost.co.il * e-mail: [email protected]
Issue: June 2009
Designer: Miri Nistor
Stamp Sizes: 34.6 mm x 25.7 mm
Plate no.: 763 (one phosphor bar)
Sheet of 25 stamps, Tabs: 5
Printers: E. Lewin-Epstein Ltd.
Method of printing: Offset