Challah for Parashat Pekudei
The cloud.
Every week, Julie Seltzer, artist and Torah scribe, bakes a challah depicting an aspect of the week's Torah portion.
For by day, a cloud was over the Tabernacle, and a fire was in it by night. (Exodus 40:38)
כי ענן על המשכן יומם ואש תהיה לילה בו
There was always a cloud above the Tabernacle--when it lifted, the Israelites would know that they too should move. This was the way they traveled about the desert, always following the cloud of God.
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.
