"Hamsah" portrays an ancient Jewish Symbol

"Hamsah" portrays an ancient Sephardic symbol of protection against the Evil Eye. ...

What is it?In the Sephardic Jewish tradition, this symbol is called "the Hand of Miriam," (or Hamsa). Hamsa it is an icon of protection from the evil eye, and one of the few Jewish religious symbols that later retained and has been incorporated by both Christianity (as the Hand of Mary) and Islam (as the Hand of Fatima).

What's in the palm?The Hand of Miriam commonly has a symbolic eye in its palm, which we replaced with the image of a daisy, as the word "daisy" comes from a contraction of "day's eye" (since the flower was named after the sun).

What about the fish?The fish serve as another protective symbol, which comes from the Talmudic interpretation of Genesis 48:16, where Joseph's children, Ephraim and Menasseh, were blessed to be like fish. The Talmud states that fish are immune from the evil eye because they are under water..