Our family has a lot of smachot in June. It's really been a whirlwind of wonderful. It's also
meant that I'm not in some of my regular routines. So last Shabbat we were not at home for dinner as we were staying with family in NJ to celebrate a bat mitzvah. And this week we won't be eating most of our meals at home because of our own son's bar mitzvah (YAY!)
I was thinking of ways to retrofit the meals we did eat or are going to eat to the parsha. There's a lot of interesting things that happen in these two parshiot - we've got spies, enormous fruit (like a cluster of grapes so big it had to be carried on two poles), the earth opening up and swallowing rebels...it's exciting and certainly good things to engage the imaginations of people around our Shabbat table. For Shelach Lecha, any easy one is to just serve grapes with dessert. Maybe even find the tiny Corinth (aka Champagne) grapes and then big globe grapes and mix them together. Or a grape tart.
For Korach this week my son has chosen the menu and one thing we're having is roasted potatoes...could they be the boulders that tumble into the earth with the rebels? (a little stretching here...) Another idea is a bundt cake with the hole in the middle to represent the hole that opened up in the earth.
But here's the thing, there is one thing I did from my normal routine both weeks - even though I first thought I wouldn't...I made challah. Each week as Thursday night rolled around, it just felt like what I should be doing. So I did. It isn't parsha specific, but it's one special part of our Shabbatot that I can bring in. That's a Shabbat lesson in itself.
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