The Rising Life

It’s the week of Schlissel Challah! . . . We bake a key into our challah, to symbolize our prayers for an opening of the gates, in our blessings for expansive and abundant sustenance in the coming year! Tomorrow we bless the new month of Iyar – a month of healing. The Manna began to fall from the sky in this month, the perfect healing food that would sustain the Jewish people in the desert. We just finished the holiday of Pesach, when we obsess over food – particularly -bread, grains, and even things that look like grains (yeah, i’m talking to all us crazy Ashkenazim!). We clean out every nook and wipe down every surface, determined to rid our homes and our selves of anything that could lea