What do these photos have in common? And what message do they send? Leave your answer in the comments!
8PM: The answer is…The Jewish New Year celebrations begin tonight at sundown, so Shana Tovah, y’all! The apples and honey are traditional foods to guarantee sweetness in the year ahead, like our Southern tradition of eating black eyed peas and greens on New Year’s Day. The little birds made of challah symbolize the protection of G-d, the flight of our sins away from us in the season of atonement, or mercy…depending on which cookbook you read!
I was especially moved by the picture of the little birds. It was posted on the website of The Forward, a Jewish daily newspaper. After Richard’s grandfather, Jack, made his way from Russia to Japan to Bolivia to America, he became a sports writer for The Forward. He spent his career with them. The binoculars that he used to take to baseball games came down through the family to Richard. Richard and I used to sit on the deck and use Jack’s binoculars to watch the birds down by the river.
Afraid I’m wordless. It’s really early.
Apples, honey, and bread – reminds me of breakfast.
It’s about the birds and the bees!!
tradition, tradition, tradition in the words of Fiddler’s Tevye………happy new year!
A sweet year to you and yours!
It’s difficult to leave a comment because of the rigamarole of signing in to this site. Takes to long!
Food photography is something that will never be a hobby of mine.
Both make me hungry, but more importantly, I love that mbb452000Mary_Barrett used the word “rigamarole” !!!