Faith Under Fire - Photography
All part of Life on the Border: faith under fire; tradition, and perseverance — tested daily.
Rabbi Nachson Hacohen of Kfar Hananiya (our village), located in Israel's Galilee, points to the upcoming Torah portion of the week - "Eikev" - of which the first three paragraphs are read at Monday and Thursday morning services. When the ornately housed scroll is taken out and read on Shabbat at synagogues in Israel and across the Jewish world, the entire portion is publicly recited.
Unlike the unboxed scrolls wrapped in velvet or fanly cloths found in congregations of Ashkenazi Jews in North America, the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and Western Europe, etc, the scrolls commonly used in Sephardic and "Edot haMizrach" congregations—Jews holding to customs across the Arab world and North Africa are typically encased in round decorated wooden cases.
This is also part of Life on the Border: faith under fire; tradition, and perseverance — tested daily.
Work and pray to achieve and dwell within a tranquil and enriching Shabbat Shalom for all of the House of Israel.
Shot notes: photographed on a Samsung #s24ultra in #expertraw Mode and edited in #LightroomMobile.
I intentionally slightly underexposed and rolled off the typical Samsung oversharpening and too-punchy colors (IMHO). I wanted to emphasize the subtle textures of the parchment scroll, the intricate hammered silver case, the fabrics, and the morning light streaming in from the left.