A refugee from France during the Nazi period, Jacques Lipchitz responded to the Jewish Holocaust and its aftermath. In Miracle II, a figure in a prayer shawl merges with a flaming menorah and the Decalogue. Its fertility motifs suggest two miracles: Hanukkah, the feast of lights commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple at the time of the Maccabean Revolt in the Second Century B.C.E., and the birth of the State of Israel in 1948. It also refers to the birth of his first child when Lipchitz was 57 years old.