Comments on: Nostalgia Sunday – Blue Box Redux

By: ruth katz

ruth katz — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:35:53 +0000

The Blue Box has been in our home and always near the Shabbat candlesticks ever since I can recall…. They were first brought home by my beloved Mother when we lived in Montreal. Whatever change was still in our pockets before Shabbat candle-lighting, ‘had’ to be emptied into the Box.

I continue my Mother’s tradition, and a Blue Box still holds prime place near the candlesticks.; each Shabbat some coins are added to the Box.

The Box is made of plastic; that’s the only available model for now.
It would please me to have one of those ‘new’ boxes; please let me know how? where? to obtain one.

…. and let’s not ever stop planting trees………..
With sincere wishes for peace in Israel, Ruth Katz

By: David-Joe

David-Joe — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:52:35 +0000

Strengthening the Love of the Land is easy. Zionism is teh concrete outcome of Judaism. They are not seperable. It was only after teh fall of the second temple that Judaism became rabbinical because the Jews had to survive without their land.

So by teaching Judaism is one way. And this can be done by including God or secuarly by teaching Judaism as where the Jewish People originated.

Israel is one great big history lesson and there is no part that the deeper one digs, the more Jewish is becomes. Not Arab, or Muslim, or Christian or anything else. And field trips were always wonderful.

It is called Zionism and unless it us taught, there can be no love for then land and the blue boxes will remain xomething of the past.