Torah and Tatami, Challah and Blossoms

 O how I love Your Torah!
It is my meditation all day.

Psalm 119:97

Shavu`a Tov! Have a blessed week!

Love, 💛 Shayndel

 

Please find my AHAVA prayer sheet from this week`s Parsha Yitro to pray for your families and nations and Israel HERE:

AHAVA Prayer Sheet Yitro

 

Ahava Prayer and Movement

Praying from the Parsha, Moving onto God`s Kingdom Calendar
 

 

 

 

 

Daily Bread Postcard!

How precious is your kindness, O God!

---Psalm 36:8

I love this line from the Psalms, and it is also the beginning of a morning prayer that I read from the Jewish prayer book.  That is the book that is open in the middle of the drawing.  The books were spread out on the tatami floor of my room, and seeing all the words and the light coming in inspired me to make this drawing.  When I posted it, and see it under the blog header with the Matzah, I noticed the color and lines of the  `tatami` in the drawing looks like the `matzah` in the photo! Any chance you noticed that too?!

Blessings and Shalom!

♡

Shayndel


On Thursdays I am trying out a new blog feature, which is to post a `Daily Bread` Postcard, and from there print 7 of them (one for each day) to give out to people I meet in the week.  And to you if you`d like!*.         This is the fourth week!

  Yes, "7"!!

Shabbat Studio!

It was like Christmas in August to receive these gifts of Judaica!!!

My images Japan were of tatami rooms with tokonoma and sliding doors. They never included a torah and shofar, challah and the tabernacle!!!  I might have imagined me in a kimono, but in a tallit, no never!!!

So I set out my gifts, oh what gifts they are!! Its like a child`s dream come true.   She receives these packages from the Japan postman that are filled with the treasures of her past which have now become her present!

Oh the wonders of God! 

if you return to Me and obey my mitzvot, and do them, then even if your dispersed people are at the ends of the heavens, I will gather them from there, and bring them back to the place where I have chosen for My Name to dwell.      ---Nehemiah 1:9  TLV

Torah and Tatami

Hi and Welcome to Challah and Cherry Blossoms!

As I get started on a new blog, I wonder who my new readers will be.
I wonder how can I tell you what the blog is about, as I too am forming it in each new post.

These first two posts are combinations of two things starting with the same letter.
              You see, for example, Challah and Cherry Blossoms, 
                                                                           Torah and tatami...

Are you starting to get the connection?
..Yes!
You are getting it!!  they are pairs that express something about being Jewish and living in Japan.

I made this blog to express the miracle of a Jewish girl (woman, but I like the sound of girl for this!) from New York who ran away from home all the way around the world to Japan. 

She kept her Jewish identity hidden for many years as she made her new life in Japan. 
But guess what?  Like Jonah, who tried to run away from God, all the way to Tarshish,  she too was found.    Her story comes full circle when seemingly out of nowhere she was not only found but she  was saved and brought back to life through Jesus Christ, who she learned before long is YESHUA the Jewish Messiah!

She wasn`t in the belly of a whale when He found her, but I think the story has enough of a parallel, especially as Japan is an island full of many kinds of fish and as we all know Yeshua was a great fisherman!

Of course that is the simplified version of a long story and the Jewish girl is me!
I just can`t tell you what a big surprise it all has all been in the past two years.
This is my new blog to express and share something about coming back to my Jewish faith and having found out that there is only one way that completes that faith, and that is salvation in Yeshua.

I hope this blog can be a place where people from all over can come together, share a love for Yeshua and for God`s word, encourage each other, and glorify His name through simple things in our everyday lives.  I love to draw, dance for the LORD and am completing the second year of training to become licensed in worship dance.   I love Japan and I love being re-connected with my Heavenly Father where I least expected it.  I am also a mother of one beautiful daughter.   I would love to hear from you so please don`t hesitate to share in the comments.

Shabbat Shalom !

Yeshua said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life! 

No one comes to the Father except through Me.   ---John 4:16  TLV