Star of David

Star of David Kosher Soap picture is courtesy of Todd Ehlers from Flickr
Even though the Star of David shape is missing from this product I thought it fit to include it in my blog since it uses the name of our Jewish emblem for promoting sales.
The Star of David is an inter-religious symbol which was used by Budhists, Christians, Moslems and Jews all along history, but do the non Jews use this soap?

Hexagram on the roof Picture is courtesy of "Seema K K"  who published it on Flickr and wrote in the caption that this shot is from one of the backwater villages in Kerala.

Bob wrote on his Blog Nine Months in Syria under a photo of a mosque window-screen full with Solomon’s seals:

In the Muslim World, the six-pointed star is a Muslim symbol. From Yemen to Egypt to Syria, it was incorporated in Islamic architecture from the first centuries of Islam. David is considered a Muslim prophet (along with Moses and Jesus); the six-pointed star in Islam is also called the Star of David. Last weekend, a Syrian friend invited me to his family home in Homs, Syria's third largest city. We visited one of the city's oldest mosques, located in the labyrinthine souq. Under an archway and down a few well-polished stone steps from the market bustle, black, metal doors opened into the serenity of the mosque. The doors were decorated with a familiar symbol: a repeating Star of the Prophet David.

On December 18, 2005 Rabbi Jeremy Rosen wrote on his Blog

Symbols are trivial but very dangerous things. For millions of people the Cross is a source of comfort and reassurance. But if it has been held over you or your relatives while they were being burnt, raped or slaughtered, then the Cross is a hated symbol of pain and oppression. The same can be said of the Crescent, the Star and Sickle and... the Magen David. If you are wearing the wrong football shirt in Istanbul there is a serious chance of getting stabbed, and in parts of England having a broken beer bottle shoved in your face. And if you wear a kippa or a hijab in parts of France you run the risk of violence... Religion, Politics or Sport are all often the excuse for mindless thugs to use violence.

Canadian Rabbi Asher Jacobson said in an interview about the Da Vinci Code:

In Jewish mysticism it is explained that the Star of David is the symbol of the world and of God. The arrow pointing downwards is God. God is seen as the male because God is the one that gives life. God is the creator, the father, the master. The world, the universe, everything of creation is compared to the female for it receives. It receives life, it receives sustenance, it receives Godliness. This is similar to the chalice and the blade… although I think in the novel the roles are reversed with the downwards triangle being the feminine and the upwards triangle being the masculine. 

Solomon's Seals in a window of the 16th century Bali-Beg Mosque, Niss Fortress in Serbia, which was built by local Turkish ruler Bali beg.
Picture is courtesy of Babsi from Flickr whose works I adore...

Solomon’s sealSolomon’s seal on a 25 centimes Morocco coin which was issued in 1921. Photo is courtesy of Approche numismatique.