2/23/12

A Challah Plate

"....המוציא לחם מן הארץ"
After blessing on the Challah's on Shabbat, The challah pieces are passed around the table to all diners. What is more natural than passing around the Challah bread in a plate that looks like a home baked Challah!
This new Challah plate I designed looks like a Challah and when turned can be used as a plate.
It is hand made of copper, silver plated on the outside and gold plated on the inside.

A new salt container for Shabbat

וְכָל קָרְבַּן מִנְחָתְךָ בַּמֶּלַח תִּמְלָח וְלֹא תַשְׁבִּית מֶלַח בְּרִית אֱ-לֹהֶיךָ מֵעַל מִנְחָתֶךָ, עַל כָּל קָרְבָּנְךָ תַּקְרִיב מֶלַח (ויק' ב: יג)
"And every meal-offering of thine shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meal-offering; with all thy offerings thou shalt offer salt." (Leviticus 2,13)
This phrase shows the connection between the Altar and salt.
Following this phrase, I built a structure that resembles the Altar that was in the Holy Temple for the use of holding the salt during the Shabbat.
This salt holder is silver plated with a plexiglass container for the salt. It can aslo be gold plated. Special orders can be made in silver.

2/12/12

Our new Netala is improving

Itzhak continued to work and improve the Netala. The new version has a base that like the handles gives the feeling of water waves.