{"id":364,"date":"2010-03-28T23:40:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T23:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2010\/03\/mazalel-the-angel-of-the-stars.html"},"modified":"2010-03-28T23:40:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T23:40:53","slug":"mazalel-the-angel-of-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2010\/03\/mazalel-the-angel-of-the-stars.html","title":{"rendered":"Mazalel – the angel of the stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love all things angels. I have small statues, pins and cement angels in my labyrinth. Elin Schoen Brockman created an angel necklace of Mazalel<\/a> at the request of a friend who was going in for surgery and wanted a good luck charm.<\/p>\n

Here is the story of Mazalel and a bit about Elin as well in her own words:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Okay. This is how the angel happened. A few years ago, a friend of
\nmine was facing scary surgery. Of course, I suggested good luck
\ncharms, amulets, anything she believed would help. I even offered to
\nlend her some of mine. “Do you happen to have an angel?” she asked. I
\ntold her I didn’t, unfortunately.<\/p>\n

That’s when it came to me, the story of Mazalel, who unlike Raphael and
\nthe other more famous angels, happens to be female. She also happens to
\nbe shaped like a star — and not just any old star but a particularly
\nlucky one, the Star of David (which as everyone knows has been a major
\nmotif in Jewish jewelry practically forever).<\/p>\n

Of all the gazillions of angels out there, Raphael and
\nGabriel are probably the most famous.<\/em><\/p>\n

But my own favorite is Mazalel.<\/em><\/p>\n

She’s the angel who, back in Biblical times, had the
\nbrilliant idea of getting the stars to gather into sparkling pictures
\nso everyone on earth could use the sky as a map to keep from getting
\nlost.<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s how steering by the stars began — and also wishing on
\nthe stars! And that’s why mazal became the Hebrew word for both
\nconstellation and luck — as in mazal tov!<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve never personally met Mazalel, but I have it on good
\nauthority (my mother, who heard it from her grandfather who came from a
\nvillage in Russia where they knew about such things) that she actually
\nis shaped like a star — and not just any old star, but the Star of
\nDavid, which may well be the original lucky star.<\/em><\/p>\n

So it was only natural that one day when I needed something
\nlucky and also sparkly to give a friend who was feeling very lost, I
\nmade a charm for her in my favorite angel’s image.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now Mazalel\u2122 can be your lucky star angel, too!<\/em> <\/a>May she protect you on all your journeys!<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

With love and aloha,
\nSusan<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

Angels are everywhere just open your mind and your heart to the signs.<\/p>\n

Make Angels on
\nYour Shoulder<\/a> part of your daily routine and share it with a
\nfriend! <\/p>\n

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