A Challah for Rosh HaShanah (a little early, you'll see)

I made a Challah a little early for Rosh Hashanah.
It is to send to my daughter, so she can have a challah and apples and honey at the New Year!
I had a good time making it and reflecting on the year and on the sweetness and goodness of our Lord and Father and King.  And happy that she will have a challah delivered on time.

I filled another bag with apples and honey to send with the challah ---for a sweet new year---,  and in doing so, found myself wanting to bring apples and honey to people in my days.  To share the season we are in to honor our Father our King! 

In this season where we celebrate the beginning of creation, the crowning of the King, may we bring our repentance and turn it in, starting a-new.  May God Bless you!  And keep you and shine His face upon you and give you Peace--Shalom!!

A few scenes from the making!  It is a tradition to make a round challah on Rosh Hashanah, some say it represents a Crown , or the eternal cycle of the year and years, and the round shape of the world,  as we celebrate the Creator and His creation...It is also sweet, whereas mostly challah during the year for Shabbat is sprinkled with salt, this challah has honey and can also be made with other sweetness.  I put apples in the filling of one, but for sending I wasn't sure how it would hold up so I also made a basic sweet round challah with honey and on top, sprinkled sugar and cinnamon.  

This year I had a new personal revelation while making the challah, as I was braiding the four strands and crossing them over each other, I thought of the scriptures about God bringing us together from the four corners of the earth and gathering us back.  Isn't that perfect!

 Then ADONAI your God will bring you back from captivity and have compassion on you, and He will return and gather you from all the peoples where ADONAI your God has scattered you.  Even if your outcasts are at the ends of the heavens, from there ADONAI your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you.  

Deuteronomy 30:3~4

 

 please note I will be taking a blog break in honor of the High Holy Days. 

Wishing you a Happy and Sweet and Blessed New Year!  See you in 5779! 

Shana Tova!

Much Love,

♡ Shayndel

Elul to Tishrei, some reflectiions towards the new year

Sounding the Shofar
Psalm 27
A call for repentance
A shout up to heaven

The sweetness of return
is like nothing we can ever learn

It's easy turn towards the Love of our King
from that day on, To Him all we bring!

As we approach the New Year
5 7 7 9 !!
Dear Father
May we A L I G N
with You , with Your will
with Your word and
Your days
Submitting to You in
all of our ways!

Happy Blessed Sweet New Year 5779!
Love
Shayndel

Note'  Elul is the sixth, and  last month of the year we are in 5778
Tishrei is the Head of the Year, where we have Rosh (=head) HaShanah (=the Year, hence Head or Beginning of the Year).  So this New Year is really in the seventh month, but is the start of the new "Year" and note the first month of the Hebrew calendar actually being Nisan is in spring.