Monday, April 22, 2019

Don't Pass Over the Significance of the Shape of Matzah

My wife Miriam and I experienced Passover as the Holiday of Freedom by participating in creating a Jewish community for the holiday on the Greek island of Crete.

I photographed hand-made round matzah and machine-made rectangular matzah. These matzah shapes in relation to the spiral challah eaten when Passover ends give us clues to understanding the structure of Jewish consciousness.



I write the sentences in my Times of Israel blog post as Twitter tweets. See https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/dont-pass-over-the-significance-of-the-shapes-of-matzah/

It is based upon the “Torah Tweets” blogart project that I created with my wife Miriam http://bibleblogyourlife.blogspot.com

Through a Bible Lens: Biblical Insights for Smartphone Photography and Social Media explores the conceptual background for Bible blogging.  It is written in the language of digital culture and social media for dissemination throughout the Twitterverse and blogosphere.

THROUGH A BIBLE LENS explores the Bible, the best selling book in the world, from the viewpoint of life in today's digital era.

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