Challah for Parashat D'varim
The stars in heaven.
Every week, Julie Seltzer, artist and Torah scribe, bakes a challah depicting an aspect of the week's Torah portion.
Today, you are as many as the stars in the sky. (Deuteronomy 1:10)
וְהִנְּכֶם הַיּוֹם, כְּכוֹכְבֵי הַשָּׁמַיִם לָרב
This is the promise made to Abraham back in Genesis--that his descendents will be as numerous as the stars in heaven. Here you see here the colorful sun, moon, and stars.
Julie Seltzer is a scribe, baker, and artist. She began creating challah art at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Connecticut, where she lived until recently. Julie now resides in the Bay Area, where she is writing a torah scroll at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.
