This stained glass window shows Jesus as the Good Shepherd.
I have noted that we tend to walk into the temple on Jesus' left hand but we leave on Jesus' right. With his sheep.
"And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left."
In His left hand he has a crook to prod the sheep. In His right hand he holds the sheep.
In Jewish tradition:
The Right Hand (Chesed): Represents expansive love, drawing all things near, and giving without limitation.
The Left Hand (Gevurah): Represents restraint, fear of God, and the setting of healthy, necessary boundaries.
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The Song of Songs has this passage about windows:
behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
(As an interesting aside: Jewish Priests bless their congregation making this sign with their hands.
There is a lot of symbolism packed into this. The spaces or windows between the fingers represent the lattice through which God reveals Himself.
The fingers form the shape of the letters shin, daleth and yod: ש ד י which spells Shaddai or Almighty.
Also you can see how the fingers are divided into 28 segments to symbolize power.
(Leonard Nimoy, who grew up going to synagogue, borrowed this symbol for the Vulcan salute. So it looks a bit familiar but a bit strange in this context.)
This follows the pattern started by Aaron in Leviticus 9: 22
And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and blessed them
The blessing comes from Numbers 6
The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.)
Back to the temple:
This window is in a sealing room. There is an identical window in the Celestial room.
See here for another symbol at the baptistry window.
Count the panels in that window. It is 9 high and 11 across. That is 99. What a unique number. Immediately, this calls to mind the Lord's parable of the lost sheep. "if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?"
I've heard it said that temple work is done one by one. We do not perform a baptism and read off a list of names. We do each ordinance one individual at a time.
The Celestial room has the same design.
The number 99 also comes up in the story of Abraham. At age 99 God speaks to Abram and changes his name to Abraham. God introduces Himself as El Shaddai, the Almight God. and God establishes His covenant and God promises Abraham that kings will come from him.
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless. 2 Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.”
3 Abram fell facedown, and God said to him, 4 “As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. 5 No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations. 6 I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you. 7 I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
This passage resonates with both the Celestial room where we enter into the presence of the Almighty God and to the sealing room where couples enter into the New and Everlasting covenant and they are sealed to their descendants.
Windows are a source of light. Of course windows do not generate light, but they transmit light. What a good symbol of ministering.
Depending on the circumstances sometimes windows allow light into the building and sometimes windows shine light from the building.