Bread on Fire

It is customary to burn the leavened bread before the Passover holiday. Here are some photos.

Happy Bokeh

Here are some Chanukah shots with lots of bokeh. for those who don't know what that is, heres a snippet from Wikipedia on the subject.

In photography, bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light."Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting— "good" or "bad" bokeh, respectively. Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field. Photographers sometimes deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions.

Redeme the Destructed - 9th of Av

On this night the 9th of AV, I lay and cry for the rebuilding of our temple. It says, “For every sickness there’s a cure and for every exile there’s a redemption.” On the day of destruction of our sacred temple there was born the builder and redeemer of hope for a better tomorrow. Not to focus on annihilation and destruction. Concentrate on the rebuilding and redemption.
For some it’s hard to imagine and conceive the temple. It is something so far beyond our realm of imagination and fantasy. For this we cry. We cry for our tears to be real and true.
Do we stand in synagogue and lament for our sins when the next day it’s forgotten? When we are poignant on our sins and wrong doings, then we conceive this hope and faith, to learn of our misdeeds and our actions. Forever.
On this day we read the past and look at the future. Where we stood and where were going to stand, we know our challenges and fights.
It’s not to be happy but sad for the future, for the better.