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Placing an orange on a seder plate symbolizes the increasing trend toward equalitarianism among America Jews. The story is told that 50 years ago, when women were first beginning to join the rabbinate, susannah Heschel, author of "Jewish and Female" and the daughter of Abraham Hoshua Heschel addressed a Florida congregation on the subject of Jewish women's emerging equality. Afterwards, a man rose in a fury and proclaimed that women belong on the bimah as much as an orange belongs on the seder plate. One could, of course, adopt a more traditional view, and say that the orange, like the egg, symbolizes life and that its seed symbolize the hope for redemption.
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The humanity expressed in the custom of removing a bit of wine out of the cup of our redemption in order to remember the suffering of our enemies, and the message of justice, hope and comfort which the Passover story has historically represented to the oppressed throughout the world, turn the horror of the plagues into a strange and wonderful beauty.
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Choose one of these colorful hand-blown glasses to break at the wedding ceremony. We will send this to the bride and groom with a description and notation of the artwork you have selected and instructions of what to do with the broken glass.
Select from the artwork below the gift you wish to give. We will inform the recepient where to send the shards and what they will be receiving. Please allow 12-16 weeks after we receive the shards to have the artwork created for you. ShardzTM absolutely and unequivocally guarantees that the glass shards you create during your wedding ceremony will be the same ones we place in your piece. |
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On Friday night the table is set in all its finery as befits the "Shabbat Queen." Traditional blessings of praise are recited over the candles, wine and challa. In the lower portion of the painting, a band of vermilion portrays the setting sun.
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TO THE LOBBY
TO THE OFFICE
