Among the Sephardic Jews, the ostrich egg has a symbolic content. The reason for this is that according to beliefs looking in the big eyes of the ostrich helps concentrate on prayers and the egg itself is similar to the ostrich’s eyes. It was customary, therefore, to also decorate the synagogues with empty ostrich eggs, which also appeared in the decoration of the booth of Sukkot. According to the quote from Psalm 145, verse 18: “The Lord is near to all who call Him, to all who call Him with sincerity.” The ostrich egg was donated by a family of Sefard origin from Budapest.