For anyone who's seen it up close, there is an ethereal quality to the mystical priestly blessing (birchas kohanim). Yet, at the ancient Kotel in Jerusalem, it's almost otherworldly. 

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The Priestly Blessing painting captures the drama with subtle tones that juxtapose the walls of the Kotel with the draped folds of the white prayer shaws. 

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At a distance, the colors appear pastel and dreamy. Up close, a shimmering array of transparent multicolored pigments reveal themselves.