#kiddush

[aprettyjewishyear]

Museum Glass. lithograph on paper by Janet Fish, 1975. alternatively titled Kiddush Cups (Glasses for the Jewish Museum) according to the North Carolina Art Museum, this work is one of Fish's many colorful and interesting lithographic works. her art is primarily still life, with a focus on light, transparency, and reflection.

[hiddurmitzvah]

Shopping for kiddush when you lowkey broke:

[estera-shirin]

Kiddush cup, Iran, 20th century CE

[girlactionfigure]

This is the 32nd Shabbat since October 7th.

For the 32nd time, as we light the Shabbat candles, we will desperately cry out to HaShem to bring every hostage back to their families.

This evening, as we light Shabbat candles, let’s storm the heavens and pray that next Shabbat will be different. That next week, we will light the Shabbat candles, make Kiddush, eat Challah, and enjoy our Shabbat meals, knowing that every hostage is reunited with their families, celebrating Shabbat where they belong.

Bring Them Home Now! 🎗️

mushkalewis

[judaismandsuch]

2 Shabbat Kiddush Club Jokes for jumblr:

These are hardly jokes. But I don't really see much disscusion about kiddush clubs and drinking on shabbat here, and these make me laugh, so...

Why is it forbidden to drive on shabbat? So that we need not concern ourselves with drinking and driving.

Why do we get an extra soul on shabbos? So that our liquor capacity can be higher!

Like yeah, they are shitty, but I still giggle.

[koenji]

A Yemenite-Jewish family celebrating a Passover Seder, British Mandate Palestine (possibly Tel Aviv or Jerusalem), April 3, 1939. The meal is covered while drinking the ceremonial wine.

[copperbadge]

I'm very much a mix-and-match kind of guy so I've been acquiring the various objects necessary for a Jewish life in fits and starts. A lot of it is vintage or thrift rather than new or, uh, what some would call appropriate. (My havdalah box is a small decorative kitchen canister from the 1960s that I've filled with dried spices and herbs from my garden.)

I'd just been using a mug for Kiddush, but last time I was at Randolph Street Market the Judaica Guy was there and he had two gorgeous cups. This one didn't have a price; the other one was $95 because it was silver, and also it wasn't nearly as nice as this one. After I picked this one up to check for a price he asked if I was looking for a Kiddush cup and I said "They're gorgeous but out of my budget" and he said "Well, the silver-plate one is only twenty" and so now I have a proper Kiddush cup!

[ID: A photograph of a small silver-plated cup, used for welcoming Shabbat, sitting on my kitchen table; it has a motif of grapes and grape leaves deeply engraved into the outer bowl of the cup, and a base with little decorative filigrees around the rim.]

[amodernjunecleaver]

To celebrate my conversion a dear friend gifted me with a mezuzah and klaf, the mezuzah matching my Shabbat candle sticks and the Kiddush cup he gave me for Hanukkah.

To say that I am touched would be a woeful, woeful understatement…