Mesh Report Feb 3, 2015


mesh15_02_03_cropReport from Captain Alex Kent:

Another mouth watering MESH meal was served on Tuesday night, creatively assembled by Lynne Kurzweil, making the most of Bar Mitzvah leftovers.  We hosted 19 guests for a gourmet meal of cheese and crackers and fruit to start, split pea soup made by Merrill Silver, a main course of egg salad heroes, along with steak fries cooked up by Lynne K. and Bernardo Breziner, along with a cucumber and tomato salad.  Dessert was noodle kugel made by Aileen Grossberg with a black cherry sauce courtesy of Lynne.

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Rachel Kanter: Fiber Artist, Shomrei Member

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Immersion: Loss, click to enlarge

We welcome Rachel to the Kol Emunah masthead!  The blog graphic is a detail of her work Immersion: Loss. From time to time, we will be featuring a Shomrei artist on our blog in both the masthead and on the featured artist page.  If you are an artist at Shomrei or know one who would like to be featured, let me know.

 


Immersion: Loss

Vintage tallit, cotton, ribbon.

Many ceremonies have been written using a mikveh for new and inventive rituals.

“Immersion: Loss” is a spiritual mikveh and is to be used when getting to a mikveh is not possible or desired.  Its use marks that time in life when you are faced with the knowledge that something important has ended. Prayers are recited that ask, plead and thank God for the strength and understanding to emerge from the loss renewed.

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