And Finally, the Fourth Challah Cover complete!

As we are nearing the end of the Fifth book of Torah, I have finally completed my Fourth Challah Cover!  It is time to start on the fifth quickly, so without further ado, I will just share some of the photos of the fourth, and hope you enjoy how it came out.  It surprised me how playfully the pink cloud of Cherry Blossoms above Mt. Fuji echoes the shape of the Challah!

Also how the mountain becomes voluminous when it covers the Challah.
Can you see how the elements come alive when the challah cover does its job of covering the Challah!!

The `Torah` on top of Mt. Fuji can be seen in this photo below, as well as bits of fabrics in Japanese patterns that are used in places on the front and back.

The islands will wait for His Torah.
---Isaiah  42:4

The first ten letters of the Hebrew alphabet, representing the Ten Commandments,  are embroidered onto the shape of Mt. Fuji.
  

 

It surprised me how playfully the pink cloud of Cherry Blossoms above Mt. Fuji echoes the shape of the Challah!

Views of a Challah Cover, above `Flat and extending over the Shabbat Table`, and as it drapes over the Challah....Shabbat Shalom from Japan!

God Bless you and Shabbat Shalom!

Love,
Shayndel

*Note:  Extra special thanks to K-san, who some readers may recall meeting  through my Postcard Challenges!! It was her inspiration on this Postcard Challenge post HERE that gave me the ideas for this Challah Cover, including the idea of the Pink Cherry Blossom cloud, and the use of the Japanese pattern fabrics, so it really became a collaboration.  Thank you K-san!   

Torah Journey---Finishing the Book of Numbers, Fourth Challah Cover-in-progress!!

In His hand are the depths of the earth, 

the mountain peaks are His also.

The sea is His--He made it,

and His hands formed the dry land.

Come, let us worship and bow down.

Let us kneel before ADONAI our Maker.

For He is our God,

and we are the people of His pasture,

the flock of His hand.

---Psalm 95: 4〜7

In progress. Fourth Challah Cover.

In my first year of reading the Torah, I have been making one challah cover for each of the five books of the Torah.  

This week`s parsha is a double portion and the last readings in the Book of Numbers---  Tribes, and the Journey, Matot and Masai.

May what we are learning each week and each day in Torah become a part of the fabric of our lives of worship to our Maker!!  

Chazak! Chazak! V`nitchazek!*
 

Blessings and Shalom!

Love,

Shayndel

*Be strong! Be strong! And may we be strengthened.
This phrase is said after finishing each book of the Torah.
What does it mean and why do we say it?
This post on a blog I came across answers those very questions.