This year in homeschool we are studying through history from Creation to the time of the Greeks. A part of this is studying Old Testament Celebrations and Feasts (which in many areas also correspond to Jewish celebrations/feasts).
Our first celebration was observing the Sabbath in accordance with Old Testament and Jewish traditions.
The week before we celebrated the Sabbath the preparations began.
We made a challah bread covering.
We made centerpiece Star of David floating candles (even cutting wick out of the center of candles so we could reuse it because you work with what you have access to).
And it was exhausting thanks to the heat index plus the kitchen heat, but we enjoyed sweating to death cooking as we prepped for the Sabbath weekend.
Then we celebrated! And it was a wonderful time of acknowledging God our Creator and Redeemer as well as understanding more fully the Old Testament observance of the Sabbath.
The girls are already asking to do it again. =)
Wonderful, Monica. Takes me back to when I was a young Jewish boy growing up in Cleveland Heights, OH. The challah bread looks amazing. Thank you for sharing and Good Sabbath to the whole Stauffer family!