So I missed last week. In the final ten minutes before Shabbat when I wanted to sit down to blog I realized two things. I’d forgotten to take pictures, and something was burning.
Last week’s meals were an ode to Robbie Burns. Missing our annual Robbie Burns Dinner, we had steak pie, barley vegetable soup, and trifle for dessert. There were scotch and berries, and all sorts of yummy things. And for parashat Mishpatim there was a challah shaped like scales with a heart and a feather to weigh. The heart and feather are Egyptain mythology, but Gavi asked for it, so there you go. I remade a simplified miniature version to show this week. Last week’s larger feather and heart were better, but as long as it’s yummy it doesn’t matter.
This week I made a menorah. No, not the Hanukah one, the one described in the parasha for the mishkan and ancient Temple. The symbol of ancient and modern Israel (and you though it was the star of David - nope).
We mark all our moments with fire, the good -weddings and b’nei mitzvah, the sad - shiva and yahrtzeits, and the holy- Shabbat and holidays. The wonderful thing about flame is that when you take one flame to light another you lose nothing. You illuminate the world and bring warmth and heat. A colleague, Rabbi Geoff Haber, mentioned, at a shiva minyan yesterday, that love is the same. That’s the message for Shabbat. Giving love away illuminates your life, giving warmth and heat. What a wonderful world.
Shabbat shalom.
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