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Best Gifts For Jewish Holidays
Jewish holidays
in Jewish tradition, every holiday has its symbolic significance and related religious objects. Here are my picks for original gifts for Jewish holidays. These gifts are appropriate gifts for special occasions. Hanukkah menorahs or Passover Seder are often given as gifts to hosts but many choose to purchase them to themselves.
Best Rosh Hashanah Gifts
Honey Dish/ Rosh HaShanah plate.
the peak of Rosh Hashanah is the ritual meal. On the eve of the holiday, the Jewish family gathers around the table for a festive meal that includes different kinds of ceremonial foods. We eat apples sweetened with honey and bless each other, “may you be replenished for another good and sweet year.” We also dip a slice of Challah bread in honey, another way of setting the intention for a pleasant and prosperous year. Honey symbolizes the Promised Land of Israel which the bible refers to as “the land of milk and honey”
Judaica artists have created a wide variety of unique honey dishes and rosh hashanah plates that would make perfect gifts for Jewish holidays.
Pomegranates
In recent years, the pomegranates has become a prominent motif in Rosh Hashanah gifts. According to Jewish tradition, we eat pomegranate on Rosh Hashanah, The pomegranate, as you might know, is one of the seven species the land of Israel was blessed with. Rich with seeds, is a traditional Jewish symbol of abundance, prosperity and fertility. As we bless on the pomegranate, we wish that our merits will be as plentiful as the seeds of the pomegranate. The pomegranate, thus, has become a prominent motif in Rosh Hashanah gifts.
Hanukkah Gifts
Due to Hanukkah’s proximity to Christmas, it has become a popular custom in western societies to give Chanukah gifts to those who celebrate this special holiday. Today, many non-Jews in north America give Hanukkah gifts to their Jewish friends to show their solidarity on this wonderful holiday.
Hanukkah menorah
Chanukah menorah is one of the best known symbols in Judaism. In Chanukah (also spelled Hanukkah or Hanukah), we kindle the light of a nine-candle Menorah to commemorate the victory of the Jewish army over the great Greek empire that ruled over the land of Israel two thousands years ago. This lovely ritual of lighting the Chanukah Menorah celebrates the rededication of the Second temple of Jerusalem by the Maccabees. In the Jewish tradition, the Chanukah Menorah has become a symbol of victory and religious freedom.
Dreidels
Children really enjoy spinning and play with them during the holiday. Dreidels are inscribed with four Hebrew letters that stand for “a great miracle happened there”, bringing our attention to Hanukkah’s great miracles. Several Judaica artists, such as Israeli designer, Yossi Steinberg, have turned this traditional game into a piece of art.
Passover Gifts
Passover is probably the most celebrated of all Jewish holidays. On the 15th of the month of Nissan, according to the Hebrew calendar, we celebrate Passover, just as springs comes in. In this lovely time of the year, we celebrate the liberation of the Jewish people from enslavement by the Egyptians thousand of years ago (as told in the book of Exodus). During the eight says of the Passover holiday, we eat a special kind of flat bread called matzah (Matzos).Jews keep special dietary, and are not allowed to eat bread or any kind of food made of flour.
Contemporary Judaica artists have made a great contribution to the wide selection of unique religious objects for Jewish holidays. These pieces, such as Hanukkah menorah are very popular and appropriate gifts given on Jewish holidays or on special occasions. With keeping the principle of Hiddur mitzvah, these items add joy and festivity during Jewish holidays.
Where to Find?
Judaica Store
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