Birkat Chaverim
![Stela of ‘Kharser’. Brooklyn Museum Archives, Charles E. Wilbour Archival Collection [9.4.004]](https://birkatchaverim.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/steel-famine.jpg "stela 7 year famine Egypt")
A few weeks ago I linked to a few posts from the Brooklyn museum about papyrus because of a parsha connection. This week there is another one. In Parshat Miketz there's the story of Pharoh's dreams and the seven year famine.The Brooklyn museum has a stela which talks of a seven year famine in Egypt. Although it seems that the stela is from a later perio ...
In honor of the weekly Torah portion, Parshat Chayei Sara I'm linking to some paper toys to make to help create the story of Rivka and Eliezer and giving the camel's water. First a camel on The Toy Maker's site. This page has a camel and a giraffe and one could print it multiple times to make enough camels in the story. Next ...
I thought it would be neat to link to some posts from the Brooklyn museum about papyrus this week since in this week's parsha due to a famine Abraham and Sara end up in Egypt. Apparently there is very little written about the process of how Egyptians made Papyrus, and pictorial depictions don't really explain how the sheets were formed. The Brooklyn ...
Ok maybe not in the soup but we did also doanimal crackers. My nephew's bar mitzvah is this shabbat and the weeks parsha is Noach. Part of celebrating includes throwing candies (depending on the exact custom somewhere around the Bar Mitzvah boy's aliyah to the Torah) and a kiddush. I asked my sister-in-law whether she wanted me to look for animal candies, and she liked the idea, but of course I couldn't find any except gummy worms and gummy bears and it seemed to me that that wouldn't quite cut it. First I thought of doing a variation on animal cake pops (such as these cute lambs by Bakerella) using a non-dairy recipe and chocolate instead of candy melts because of the convenience factor. However, the weather where the Bar Mitzvah will be is hot! and all that chocolate likely would end up on nice white shabbat shirts and fancy dresses given the under 5 set tendency to wipe hands on their parents rather than on napkins.
Instead ...
In honor of Parshat Yitro here is a tutorial of how to make a great Mitzvah baby book with photos of the different pages. I did not make it- it was made by one of the girls in my class. She wanted to make something for her new nephew and we came up with this idea. We looked at lots of different childrens books. She wanted to do something for now rather than when he was older. I suggested black on white since its easier for younger children to see, and I had been saving the plastics from wipes packages to use as the crinkle inside the baby book. ...
I've always loved the themes related to the Exodus, in particular the splitting of the sea. I have a few works related to that.The first one is rather Moshe focused. Below are two more one is more people focused and the last one is Miriam and the women focused. ...
Here is a little project I did with my daughter, dried fruit trees. Its extremely easy and has all the right Tu B'shvat elements in terms of dried fruit, flowers or trees. It is a quick yet fun project. Basically you take dried fruit (we used papaya), pretzels, and flower or circle shaped cookie cutters. Depicted are flowers but in truth, they do look a ...
This weeks parsha is one of the places where the concept of sanctifying the first born comes up. Many years ago I was excited to have an opportunity to go to my first Pidyon Haben (although ironically I ended up being able to attend three over a period of about three months.) Because I was studying Jewish art, I knew that the platter the baby is placed ...
Abraham and the angels mug by BC Annex For this week's parsha I thought I would post something I made a while back. I originally called it Abraham and the three angels, but the truth is you don't see Abraham or Sarah, but only the three angels. Its sort of in a werkstatte style, turn of the last century. I originally made it as an 8x10 print, but her ...
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