On August 20, Rebecca Missel and Eileen Levinson from the Haggadot.com team hosted a webinar on making our home altars for the 2020 High Holiday season. Read on for notes and resources generated during the webinar.
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Bringing in Nature
Feathers, which hearken back to the words for tzitzit and the wings of your garment
Eucalyptus bark, written on with beet juice
Fragrant herbs & spices like lavender, rosemary, vetiver, cinnamon, cloves
Elements of the four seasons
Items to Include on Our Altars
Judaic items like kiddush cup, siddur, candlesticks, shofar, yad, tallit, etc.
Plants, flowers, crystals or stones
Notes of gratitude, wishes for the new year
Shards of glass from a wedding
Pictures of people dear to us - ancestors, mentors, teachers
Clips & Booklets from High Holidays at Home
https://highholidaysathome.com/rosh-hashanah-seder
https://highholidaysathome.com/clip/rosh-hashanah-seder-plate-foods-simanim
https://highholidaysathome.com/clip/shofar-beats
https://store.customandcraft.org/
Ideas to Engage with Community
Shiviti making workshop
Email image to community for placing on home altars or having present during the season
Send packages with local apple cider, honey, coloring book pages, challah, booklets with prayers and rituals, water-soluble paper, birdseed, magnets
Other names for our altars: mikdash m’aat, makom kadosh, mizbeakh
Artists Making Altars
http://www.kohenet.com/marketplace
https://www.bekahstarrart.com/instillations--altars.html
http://rebekahlowin.com/
https://www.morningaltars.com/
The Seder Plate Project on Instagram
Calendars and Supplies
https://www.goldherring.com/product/the-jewish-planner-5781/
https://radicaljewishcalendar.bigcartel.com/
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=water+soluble+paper&ref=nb_sb_noss