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12:30. Then draw a line from there to connect it to a point at 4 o'clock. Then draw a line to 9 o'clock. Then draw a line from there to connect to 2 o'clock. If 2 o'clock is connected with the initial 7 o'clock, a pentagram is produced. Each line drawn corresponds to the step or alternative or secondary alternative, etc. when attempting to place the next consecutive number within a magic square.
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Ziprin was born on the Lower East Side of
Manhattan to Nathan Ziprin (1898-1982) and Rose Ziprin. His father, an immigrant from Chmelnik, Russia and Pikov, Ukraine, was an author and a pioneer of Jewish journalism in America, working for over a quarter century at Seven Arts Feature Syndicate and the
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The next member is, as before, placed diagonally up and towards the right. However, because this is again an invalid option, and the alternative is also invalid (because we are in the right-most column), the secondary alternative is placed in the left-most square one row up, corresponding with the
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Ziprins had four children, Leigh, Noah, Dana, and Zia. Joan left Lionel around 1970. Joan moved to California with the children. They stayed with Timothy Leary for a while. The children were estranged form their father, but their youngest, Zia Ziprin, reconnected with him in the 1980s, when she
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Service as a writer in Yiddish and English, and a Yiddish to English translator. Nathan Ziprin was also an Orthodox rabbi and an attorney. His mother, also known as Sheba, (from her Hebrew name בת-שבע, or Bathsheba), was the daughter of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Margolies, and was founder of
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mentioned above will form a pentagram if their end-points are drawn as follows. Draw the circle with clock-face numbers around the periphery, outside of the circle. Now, within the circle, and making all points on the circumference, make a point at 7 o'clock. Draw a line to connect it to a dot at
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Lionel Ziprin is also the subject of a 10 minute black and white film 'HATS', made by the
British post war modernist artist, Pip Benveniste in 1970. In this film he opens and closes a suitcase full of his hat collection and, straight to camera on a run down New York roof top, he puts on and then
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The next number is, as before, placed diagonally up and towards the right. However, because this spot is taken, the alternative is to place the number in the bottom-most square of the same row, corresponding to the fourth drawn line of a pentagram. Note that this does not follow the invalid rule
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battle shield was purportedly emblazoned with this design. Below is a step-by-step explanation of how the pentagram is the solution key, along with two magic squares exhibiting the proper placement of numbers to form the solution, following the various steps and alternatives.
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Should this last placement rule not be executable because the lowest square in the column to the right be occupied, the number is to be placed in the bottom-most square of the same column. This corresponds to the fifth and final drawn line of a
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Ziprin was sick as a child, having epilepsy and reheumatic fever. For the rest of his life, he often had visions of angels. At 19, he worked for his father's news agency employers, and saw wires coming in descriptions of the horrors of
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Ziprin spent most of his life attempting to find a large record label to distribute Smith's recordings of his grandfather. The effort did not receive much attention until a New Year's Day 2006 story about his quest was broadcast on
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as a student following the death of
Wengrofsky's mother and five other close family members, some of them neighbors of Ziprin. Both Slamowitz and Wengrofsky continue to reside in the Lower East Side of
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Ziprin was thrown out of school at age 5 for his attitude. His parents separated around that time, though they were still married when his mother died a half-sentury later. He had a brother Jordan.
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moved back to New York and to become a designer and later a boutique owner. She was executor of his estate after his death. Her daughter, Aishling Labat, also developed a relationship with Ziprin.
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above, because whereas before there was no square present, this time the diagonally related square exists but is occupied. This corresponds to the fourth drawn line of a pentagram.
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Ziprin had strayed form his
Orthodox Jewish roots in his early to mid-adulthood. This shift was strengthened by his marriage Joanna Eashe, known as Joan, in 1952. She was a
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mode of Jewish observance after he and his wife separated. At times, he provided one-on-one tutoring for those who needed his assistance. Through
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takes off each hat in turn. The sound track is the recorded
Kabbalistic chanting of Ziprin's grandfather, the rabbi Reb N Z Margolies Abulafia.
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Ziprin was interviewed by and provided personal tutoring sessions for Joe
Slamowitz in the early 1960s. Ziprin later took on Jeffrey Wengrofsky
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The separation was a crisis point for Lionel, and he increased his religious devotion. Joan died in 1994. She is thought to be the muse for
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David Katz, "‘Angels are just one more species’ - David Katz meets Lionel Ziprin, mystic, maven and maverick of New York’s Lower East Side"
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Naftali (or
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