I recently had the pleasure and privilege of attending the Bar Mitzvah of my oldest grandson, Aryeh Joshua, in Toronto. He is the son of Meir and Nechama Joshua. They named him after my grandfather whose secular name was Ludwig Joshua and whose “Shem Kodesh” was Moshe Aryeh ben Zvi. Ludwig’s father was Hertz Joshua who was nicknamed Sir Henry. For Hertz Joshua’s 67th birthday his wife and children (including my grandfather) gave him a Yad (Torah Pointer). The translation of inscription on the Yad is:

In February 16, 2012 my brother had his 80th birthday. For this occasion I sent him a photo of an embroidered Peroches which was part of a painted Shtender (lectern) made for and given to our great grandfather Herz Joshua for his 80th birthday. The embroidery consists of verse 15 in Tehilim (Psalms) 92 (Mizmor Shir Leyom Hashabos) which translated to:

An interesting aspect of the embroidery is the dots above the word “od” (still). These dots denote that the numerical value of the letters should be counted according to “gematria” methodology. Adding them up gives a value of 80. This makes both the content and meaning of the verse as well as the gematria meaningful for an 80th birthday.