Nishima Kaplan
Karla Gudeon
Tamara Baskin
Ritual Item Galleries

  • Beautiful, luxurious Chuppahs (Jewish Wedding Canopies) without spending thousands.  Silky, washable fabrics,  hand finished by our seamstress with hems & ribbon.  Personalize with your names & quote.  Easily convertible after the wedding into wall hangings, bed spreads or canopies.   Or preserve for baby namings, bar and bat mitzvahs & family weddings.

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  • Havdalah is the ritual ceremony that distinguishes between the holy Shabbat and the 6 days of the new week. The wine in the kiddush cup is blessed first. The fragrant spices in the spice box are sniffed and blessed second. The flame of the havdalah candle in the candleholder is gazed at and blessed third. The wine is tasted; the candle is extinguished in the wine. Singing and dancing add joy and spirit. Although Shabbat is ending, we celebrate and look forward to next week.

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  • Tsedaka means charity. The Hebrew is related to the word Tsedek which means justness and rightness. Giving tsedaka is a cornerstone for a righteous Jewish person's life. One is encouraged to give 10% of one's yearly income to tsedaka. Beautiful tsedaka boxes teach children and adults alike the high value we place on giving charity.

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  • The mezuzah case is created to hold a tiny parchment of a hand-written Shema ('Hear O Israel the Lord Your God is One'). In this passage from the Torah, God commands us to write God's words on our doorposts which include "And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul and might". The name that God revealed to Abraham is written on the back of the scroll, and the Shin which begins this name is inscribed on the front of the mezuzah case.

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  • The Kiddush Cup holds ritual wine for blessing every Jewish festival, including the weekly festival of Shabbat. Wine symbolizes joy-- Jewish festivals are for rejoicing!

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  • The six cups are for the items on the seder plate: chazeret (bitter greens), z'roa (roasted shankbone), charoset (apples and walnuts), maror (horseradish), karpas (greens), and beitzah (egg).

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  • The Festival of Matzah is celebrated during Passover each spring for 8 days. The matzah is first tasted during the Passover Seder. This special plate honors the matzah as the centerpiece of the Seder table.

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  • Shabbat is the holy festival that begins every Friday evening. Two loaves of delicious challah wait, on the ceremonial challah plate, for their blessing that marks the start of the festive meal.

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  • Elijah the prophet will return as the harbinger of the Messiah. He will reconcile parents and children and answer all hitherto unanswerable questions about Jewish Law. Miriam the prophetess was Moses' sister who sang and danced with the women on the far side of the Red Sea. Near the end of the modern Passover Seder, we sing to Miriam as we sing to Elijah. Placing Miriam's and Elijah's cups on the seder table reminds us to express our joy and exhaltation at great Miracles.

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  • Sacred candleholders hold ritual candles. We light and bless the candles at the start of every Jewish festival, including the weekly festival of Shabbat. The festivals come in just as the sun sets. Two candles remind us both to remember and to guard our Holy Days.

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  • The menorah is the centerpiece of the Jewish winter holiday of lights, Channukah. Eight candles are lit, one more each night, for eight blazing festive nights. The flames illuminate the ones who gather together to celebrate this holy festival.

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"Sacred candleholders hold ritual candles"
  • Sacred candleholders hold ritual candles. We light and bless the candles at the start of every Jewish festival, including the weekly festival of Shabbat. The festivals come in just as the sun sets. Two candles remind us both to remember and to guard our Holy Days.


    The technique of fusing glass goes back to biblical times. Layers of glass are cut and then arranged in a kiln to be fired to a temperature of 1550 degrees when they become one piece of glass. A second firing is required to form the piece into a bowl or platter or other piece. Each Tamara Baskin piece is signed and dated.