{"id":39530,"date":"2022-09-16T01:19:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T08:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=39530"},"modified":"2022-09-15T20:00:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T03:00:57","slug":"about-the-art-on-the-cover-of-the-jis-rosh-hashanah-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2022\/09\/16\/about-the-art-on-the-cover-of-the-jis-rosh-hashanah-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"About the art on the cover of the JI&#8217;s Rosh Hashanah issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Merle Linde, working out of Malka\u2019s Studio in Steveston Village, chose four symbols of Rosh Hashanah for her painting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The shofar<\/strong>: the mournful cry, sounded 100 times during the traditional Rosh Hashanah service, evokes the freedom we gained when we returned to the Holy Land.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JI-pg-01-sep-16-cover-rosh-2022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-39532\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JI-pg-01-sep-16-cover-rosh-2022-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"image - The cover of the JI's Rosh Hashanah issue by Merle Linde\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JI-pg-01-sep-16-cover-rosh-2022-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JI-pg-01-sep-16-cover-rosh-2022-808x1024.jpg 808w, https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JI-pg-01-sep-16-cover-rosh-2022-768x973.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/JI-pg-01-sep-16-cover-rosh-2022.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a>The pomegranate<\/strong>: a symbol of righteousness, knowledge and wisdom because it is said to have 613 seeds (arils), each representing one of the 613 <em>mitzvot<\/em> (commandments) of the Torah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The apples<\/strong>: slices dipped into honey are eaten to symbolize the desire for a sweet new year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The honey<\/strong>: given to us by the bees, who can inflict pain with their sting and yet produce delicious honey. Linde would suggest that we eat only \u201csustainable\u201d honey (the food of the bees) so that the bees can survive and continue to pollinate the pomegranate and apple trees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">L\u2019shanah tovah u\u2019metukah! Wishes for a good and sweet new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merle Linde, working out of Malka\u2019s Studio in Steveston Village, chose four symbols of Rosh Hashanah for her painting. The shofar: the mournful cry, sounded 100 times during the traditional Rosh Hashanah service, evokes the freedom we gained when we returned to the Holy Land. The pomegranate: a symbol of righteousness, knowledge and wisdom because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[781],"tags":[2466,21778,2840,6691,1801],"class_list":["post-39530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays","tag-art","tag-malkas-studio","tag-new-years","tag-painting","tag-rosh-hashanah"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}