and more
Shana Tova U’Metuka
שנה טובה ומתוקה
שנה טובה ומתוקה
© Joy Krauthammer
BlesSings for a good and sweet New Year, vitality, health, wholeness, harmony & peace, compassion, revealed miracles, inspiration & creativity, discovery & wonder, empathy & courage, blooming gardens, majestic sunrises, singing birds, love, light and JOY.
𝄞 ♪♬ Serve G*d With Joy ♬♪ 𝄞
🔯☮♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸💗¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪☮🔯
May your path be blessed in the NEW YEAR
with a 'good sealing'.
G'mar Chatima Tova
גְּמַר חֲתִימָה טוֹבָה
Brandeis-Bardin
© Joy Krauthammer
Ketiva v'Chatima Tova
כתיבה וחתימה טובה
May you be written/inscribed and sealed by G*d for a good new year.
© Joy Krauthammer
L'Shana Tova
שנה טובה
A good year.
© Joy Krauthammer
BlesSings that you take the time to be present in the field with Holiness.
"The King Is In The Field"
And The Queen Is Next To Him
Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi on Elul
BlesSings to you to be able to ask Forgiveness.
© Joy Krauthammer 5774
"The Compassionate One is in the field"
Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi on Elul
BlesSings to you to be able to ask Forgiveness.
© Joy Krauthammer 5778
The Reigning One (Shechina, Her Holy Highness) Is In the Field
BlesSings to you to be able to ask Forgiveness
and pour out your heart.
© Joy Krauthammer
"Guide me on the right Path" - Psalm 27
© Joy Krauthammer 5776
"Guide me on the right Path" - Psalm 27
© Joy Krauthammer 5776
"Guide me on the right Path" - Psalm 27
© Joy Krauthammer 5776
"With joyous song I sing and chant praise to G*d." - Psalm 27:6
© Joy Krauthammer 5777
"This is the day that G*d has made
Let us rejoice and delight in it." - Psalm 118:24
© Joy Krauthammer
Shana Tova
שָׁנָה טוֹבָה וּמְתוּקָה
© AvivaBell
Shana Tova
שָׁנָה טוֹבָה וּמְתוּקָה
© AvivaBell
Shana Tova U'Metuka
שָׁנָה טוֹבָה וּמְתוּקָה
© AvivaBell
BlesSings for a Sweet Year
Shana Tova U'Metuka
שָׁנָה טוֹבָה וּמְתוּקָה
“Yehi Ratzon Mil’fa’necha, Ad-noi El-heinu Vei’l-hai Avosainu…
…she’tichadesh aleinu shana tova u’m’tuka.”
“May it be your will, Hashem our G-d and G-d of our ancestors…”
“…that You renew us for a good and sweet year.”
© Joy Krauthammer
BlesSings for a Sweet Year
Shana Tova U'Metuka
שָׁנָה טוֹבָה וּמְתוּקָה
© Joy Krauthammer
© Joy Krauthammer
May you be mamash blessed to always delight in giving and receiving chesed, sharing fruits of your passion, witnessing G*d's wonders and enjoying lusciousness in our world.
And BlesSings truly for Torah, vitality, health, wholeness, harmony & peace, compassion, fulfillment & success, revealed miracles, inspiration & creativity, discovery, empathy & courage, blooming gardens, majestic sunrises, singing birds, love, and light and JOY.
l'shana tova tikateyvu v’teychateymu
May you be mamash INSCRIBED and SEALED for a good year.
© Joy Krauthammer
Be blessed with lusciousness and sharing.
© Joy Krauthammer
Be blessed with beauty, pleasure and connection.
YAMIM NORAIM / DAYS OF AWE
A Time for Reflection ~ A Time for Renewal
Joyous AbunDance of blesSings for New Year
Dance and Drum and Paint your way into the New Year
Inhale Ruach/breath Exhale Love
© Joy Krauthammer
Joy's appreciation for G*d's holy pomegranates
always a good 'new fruit' in the New Year.
613 Mitzvot
always a good 'new fruit' in the New Year.
613 Mitzvot
© Joy Krauthammer
May it be Your will, G*d and G*d of our ancestors,
that our merits increase like the seeds of a pomegranate.
"Yehi Ratzon Mil'fa'necha, Ad-noi El-heinu Vei'l-hai Avosainu...she'nirbeh ze'chu'yos k'rimon"
Heart of Community
Be sealed together with Love and Community in the Book of Life
Not Alone
גמר חתימה טובה G'mar Chatimah Tova
© Joy Krauthammer
Pomegranates
Shana Tova U'Metuka, A good and sweet year
לְשָׁנָה טוֹבָה
© Joy Krauthammer
Creative Soul Gallery, NY exhibit 2014
Pomegranate
L'shanah tovah tikatevu v'teychateymu לְשָׁנָה טוֹבָה תִכָּתֵבוּ וְתֵּחָתֵמוּ
May you be inscribed and sealed (in the Book of Life) for a good year.
© Joy Krauthammer 2016
May your New Year be filled with goodness
© Joy Krauthammer
May your New Year be blessed with goodness
© Joy Krauthammer
May your New Year be blessed with goodness
© Joy Krauthammer
Shana Tov
© Joy Krauthammer
Pomegranates
Shana Tova U'Metuka, A good and sweet year
שָׁנָה טוֹבָה וּמְתוּקָה
© Joy Krauthammer 2017
May it be Your will, G*d and G*d of our ancestors,
that our merits increase like the seeds of a pomegranate.
"Yehi Ratzon Mil'fa'necha, Ad-noi El-heinu Vei'l-hai Avosainu...she'nirbeh ze'chu'yos k'rimon"
Shana Tova U'Metuka, A good and sweet year
© Joy Krauthammer 2017
Shana Tova U'Metuka, A good and sweet year
© Joy Krauthammer 2017
Shana Tova U'Metuka, A good and sweet year
© Joy Krauthammer 2017
Shana Tova U'Metuka, A good and sweet year
© Joy Krauthammer 2017
Shana Tova U'Metuka, A good and sweet year
© Joy Krauthammer 2017
Shana Tova U'Metuka, A good and sweet year
© Joy Krauthammer 2017
Pomegranates
Shana Tova Umetuka, A good and sweet year
collage
שָׁנָה טוֹבָה וּמְתוּקָה
© Joy Krauthammer 2016
Shana Tova
שנה טובה
© Joy Krauthammer
G'mar Chatima Tova
גמר חתימה טובה
May you be finally sealed by G*d for a good new year.
© Joy Krauthammer 9.13.2015
Shalom,
Joy’s "less is more" blesSing
.
May G*d bless you that your New Year be filled with tshuvah, health, recovery from illness and pain, parnusa for financial health, and with expansive joy.
May you be blessed with and inscribed and sealed for a good and sweet year
in G*d's Book of Life.
L'SHANAH TOVAH TIKATEIVU V'TICHATEMU
May the sounds of the Shofar abound
filled with blesSings for the New Year
"Baruch ata Adonai Eh-lo-hei-nu meh-lekh ha-o-lam ah-share kid-e-sha-nu
b-mits-vo-tav ve-tzi-va-nu leash-moe-ah kol shofar"
"Blessed are you, Ruler of the Universe, who has sanctified us with commandments
and who has commanded us to hear the voice of the shofar.”
With the voice of the Shofar, may your prayers ascend with the power of truth, and be accepted by Ribono Shel Olam.
What does the sound of the Shofar mean in truth to you?
Do you cry out to The Compassionate One from the depths of your soul,
the way we hear the Shofar cry?
Am I focused to be the best I can be, use the gifts G*d gave me,
as I am focused on blowing the Shofar and connecting with G*d?
Joy Krauthammer blows her own hand-crafted shofar
"...from the depths I called out to Hashem." (Psalms 130).
Shofar in sunny southern California
© Joy Krauthammer
Joy Krauthammer sounds the shofar for women drummers
and home-bound friends.
A sounding Selfie
© Joy Krauthammer 2015
SHOFAR (to blast open to the Heavens) mouthpiece is designed narrow – like The Holy Temple windows– narrow inside and wide to the outside, for the light of Torah wisdom needs to be spread far and wide to the often darkened world– more than the Temple needed light of the sun to enter.
The intimate connection makes me feel good that I have with light of Shofar, from narrow opening end to wide end that for me compares to Holy Temple windows also opening wider outward sending forth the Light.
A sounding Selfie © Joy Krauthammer 9.2015 Elul
Shofarot collage with Joy's own shofar in process and finished
photos and collage © Joy Krauthammer
AriellaShira and her own hand-crafted Gemsbok Shofar
photos and collage © Joy Krauthammer
Marc W. and his own hand-crafted Shofar
photo © Joy Krauthammer 2013
Joy and Pomegranates
© Shira Solomon
BlesSings for a SWEET YEAR
Ceramic Apples 'n Honey plate by Joy Krauthammer
shana tova שָׁנָה טוֹבָה
© Joy Krauthammer
JOY'S Expansive BlesSing
Shanah Tovah Umetuka
In this NEW YEAR
In all Four Worlds, spirit, mind, heart and body,
I bless you that the wisdom in TORAH flows through you, filling you.
I bless you that you know Emet / Truth,
and that you honor your own Tshuvah / return to self and G*d.
I bless you that you know Reflections of light and darkness are known also in Heaven,
not only as shadows below on the ground, and in mirrors.
I bless you to know that your CHOICES and actions make a difference here and to the Divine Presence.
I bless you that you have REVELATION and TRANSFORM any darkness into light,
"A little light dispels the densest darkness." - Reb Shlomo Carlebach, z'l
May you draw down
Divine energy to transform
the material universe into the spiritual,
and to fulfill
your purpose in existence.
I bless you to recognize the BesSings that appear concealed (sometimes in the depths of darkness).
May you be blessed in your own introspection and participation in sacred life.
May you always hold HOPE in your heart.
May you have LAUGHTER, to lighten the load.
May you be blessed with gladness, rejoicing and exaltation.
May G*d bless you to know your spiritual INNER peace and strength.
I bless you to have loving CONNECTEDNESS with your loved ones, our universe,
and with our Source of All BlesSings, our Holy Divine One.
I bless you to have passion, COMPASSION, CHESED, caring, and confidence.
May you be blessed to reach out for another, to LISTEN, and to be witnessed.
I bless you to reach for and actualize your highest POTENTIAL,
And to create new and to birth dreams; Plant SEEDS.
I bless you
to acknowledge and harvest
the Baby Boomer wisdom of your 'sage-ness';
to be the wisdom keeper
and to go out and mentor the next generation.
I bless you to become a Simchat Chochmah,
a Joy of Wisdom empowered one,
and embrace the sacred of your years
and roots to the Holy One.
I bless you to find your holy teachers.
May you STAND UP for your beliefs in yourself and in the world.
May you own your own VOICE and be heard.
May you recognize the possibility for Mitzvot, Tzedakah and Gemilut Chasadim / Good Deeds.
May you be blessed to DO what you love, LOVE what you do, so the world can come to you.
May you recognize your neshamah's deepest gifts;
And as a vessel of Divinity
to REVEAL your soul
and your gifts in our world,
lighting your unique JOY
illuminating Hashem's Holiness.
May you recognize your soul's holy deep inner glow and allow it to shine, radiating outside in our world.
May your insides match your outsides, just as a fine clay pot for its integrity, needs inner and outer walls of same attributes.
I bless you to recognize all the appearing SIGNS and gifts from G*d,
which visit you in your dream time and surround you by surprise in your awakening. Shma.
May you treasure your BREATH, and the gifts in each day.
May you be blessed to be filled with GRATITUDE for your functioning in life,
and for all your SENSES, near and far: of vision, hearing, touching, smelling, savoring, intuitive knowing and of heart.
May you be blessed to MINDFULLY know, mamash / truly that every moment counts,
even the still, SILENT ones, and the ones where someone just quietly holds your hand, and says Henayni, I am present for you.
May you be blessed to recognize the holiness of an opportunity for ACTION or inaction.
May you be blessed to enter the GATES that are open to you.
May your TEARS be Me'orer Rachamei Shamayim Merubim - to arouse much Heavenly Mercy.
I bless you to realize
that your tears from brokenness
are precious GIFTS,
as well as your joy
being a gift
from your deepest soul.
May you be blessed to have answers for all the challenges you face. May you be able to roll and lift and transcend the boulders, and find a well of joy.
May you be blessed to know that challenges may be where you doubt your own strength, and may be that which lift you up to see yourself in light, and receive the gift that is in disguise.
May you TRANSCEND immediate challenges and with wisdom, gather strength, clarity, and courage
to face yourself and our world. May you bless the challenge.
May you be able to SURRENDER, feel the lightness of your vessel, receive the message, and be inspired.
May the Holy One bless our earth, and help us to learn how to keep it "green."
May the Divine One bless you to help create the world we want now, and for our children.
May you be embraced with SWEETNESS, love and chesed / loving kindness.
A little DRUMMING is good too, and so are purple HUGS which I share with you.
And as Reb Shlomo, zt'l, blessed us all
May you be Blessed to "DANCE your way into the Book of Life".
L'SHANAH TOVAH TIKATEIVU V'TICHATEMU
לְשָׁנָה טוֹבָה תִכָּתֵבוּ וְתֵּחָתֵמוּ
May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year.
I have been able to blow the SHOFAR each day in Elul because Marcel, z"l, loved blowing the Shofar, and he taught me.
The gift of breath that G*d gives us in life is precious.
May these blasting notes piercing Heaven assist and give merit, ilui neshama, to Marcel on his continuing journey.
May you be blessed
with HEALING and joy
in your relationships
during your process of Forgiveness.
I ask for your FORGIVENESS if I did anything in word or deed this year to hurt you, upset, alienate or anger you, or cause you distress.
Please forgive me. Let me know.
Thank you for being in my life.
Thank you for your BlesSings you have shared with me. I love you.
I bless myself to continue to work on my Seven Gates.
One love, shalom and abundant blessings of health and joy to you,
Joy Krauthammer
Gila Rena Tzohara
"Ivdu Et Hashem B'Simcha" Psalm 100:2
Serve G*d With Joy
PS
My original intention was to keep my Rosh Hashana New Year's greeting to you "short and sweet"
without my soul's usual overflowing enthusiastic ebullient joyousness.
I have been advised that "less is more." Maybe next year...
I take this gate to mamash / truly send you blesSings from my heart and soul.
How do YOU choose life?
I claim JOY
Reb Shlomo Carlebach, z"l, quotes the Sochachover:
"...Friends! Let this year be a real beginning, not the same beginning we go through every year. Let's not begin the old record over again -- let there be a new record. New teachings. New words. New thoughts.
"Let every breath we take feel like we never breathed before. The holy Sochachover says 'when we blow shofar, G-d absolutely blows a new soul into us'.
"Let's keep this new soul so holy & so beautiful & let's inscribe each other into the book of life."
"Let's keep this new soul so holy & so beautiful & let's inscribe each other into the book of life."
~ ~ ~
Bountiful BlesSings to you from Joy
© Joy Krauthammer
family friends JOY laugh fun kindness giving sharing success truth wisdom love health peace
song dance play strength faith courage vision harmony patience serenity trust freedom
compassion breath focus vitality hope time miracles serenity light connection passion gratitude
My Vibration-filled BlesSings To You
© Joy Krauthammer
Path toward a New Year
May Peace Prevail In Our World
"Guide me on the right Path" - Psalm 27
Friends on the path.
Thank you Rina for sounding song of shofar.
May our blesSings & good deeds be in abunDance as the seeds in a pomegranate.
My Shana Tova BlesSings To You
© Joy Krauthammer
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BlesSings in the New Year for the paths that you choose.
What path do you take?
"Guide me on the right path." - Psalm 27
© Joy Krauthammer
"Guide me on the right path." - Psalm 27
© Joy Krauthammer
"Guide me on the right path." - Psalm 27
© Joy Krauthammer
"Guide me on the right path." - Psalm 27
© Joy Krauthammer
"Guide me on the right path." - Psalm 27
© Joy Krauthammer
"Guide me on the right path." - Psalm 27
© Joy Krauthammer
"Guide me on the right path." - Psalm 27
© Joy Krauthammer
From my Jerusalem rebbe Yosef Ben Shlomo HaKohen,
editor "Hazon – Our Universal Vision" www.shemayisrael.com/publicat/hazon
A Letter to My Visionary Friends:
"Dear Friends,
During ELUL we prepare for Rosh Hashana – the New Year. This is a season of “teshuvah” – spiritual return; thus, during Elul, it customary to blow the shofar at the end of the weekday morning service. The sound of the shofar serves as a reminder to all of us to begin the journey “home” – to our Creator, to our own souls that were created in the image of the Creator, and to the Torah path of our Creator which enables us to fulfill the life-giving purpose of the Divine creation.
The sound of the shofar is a wake-up call, and it is not just a wake-up call to become aware of our personal and collective weaknesses which are preventing us from fulfilling our mission on this earth. The sound of the shofar is to also serve as a wake-up call to become aware of our personal and collective strengths which can enable us to fulfill our mission on earth, as individuals and as a people."
Please make MiSheberach for Reb Yosef, Yosef ben Udal. - Joy
With great sorrow, I share that Yosef Ben Shlomo Hakohen, zt'l, was niftar 27 Elul, 5771.
(5771 = 5+7+7+1=20=2+0=2 = Double JOY)
(5772 = 5+7+7+2=21=3= Gimel = JOY)
(5773 = ?)
YAY
SHANA TOVA
L'Shana tova tikatevee v’tichatemee
לשנה טובה תכתבי ותחתמי
© Joy Krauthammer
Shana Tova Pomegranate
Metivta
© Joy Krauthammer
Shana Tova Joy
Happy with Poms and Mitzvot
© Shira Solomon
Shana Tova U'Metuka
A sweet and good new year.
© AvivaBell
G'mar Chatima Tova
גְּמַר חֲתִימָה טוֹבָה
May you be finally sealed by G*d (for a) good year.
© Joy Krauthammer
G'mar Chatima Tova
May you be finally sealed by the Holy One for a good year.
© Joy Krauthammer
Chag Sameach
חַג שָׂמֵחַ
© Rabbi Eli Rivkin 2016
JOY Pomegranate Seeds:
May you be blessed to experience Divine joy during Sukkot.
© Joy Krauthammer
"Be joyful at your Feast." - Deut. 16:14
POM and PALM
Chag Sukkot Sameach
חַג שָׂמֵחַ
© Joy Krauthammer
The schach of a kosher sukkah serves as the medium through which we absorb supernal wisdom and understanding. - Arizal
Be blessed to enter a sukkah alone as being an opportunity to enter Divine rechem / womb, as if we are held in uterus, when we need to be held, contained, with compassion and love.
The image of sukkah protecting us is like a Divine Mother holding us-- Her children, and guiding us.
חַג שָׂמֵחַ Chag Sameach
Joy's Sukkah with the Wizard of Oz chevre and drummer Dorothy
"There's no place like home."
© Joy Krauthammer
You are invited to:
Joy's Fantasy Sukkah with the Wizard of Oz chevre
"There's No Place Like Home"
Joy Krauthammer © 2011
Artist commentary:
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PSALM 27, read 2x each Elul day
"Guide me on the right Path" - Psalm 27
© Joy Krauthammer
"Guide me on the right Path" - Psalm 27
© Joy Krauthammer
"Guide me on the right Path" - Psalm 27
© Joy Krauthammer
"Guide me on the right Path" - Psalm 27
© Joy Krauthammer
I bless you with a G'mar chatima tova / a good sealing in the Book of Life.
ReplyDeleteJoy
Joy, Wow!!! Great artistry........
ReplyDeleteSharon Yofan
Joy dear,
ReplyDeleteThank you for this divine New Year greeting-- so much wisdom, depth and beauty here! It is breathtaking.
I wish you all that you wish for others ...
Love, Marilyn Elias
Beautiful, Joy … loving the subtle shifting feeling inhaling Ruach, exhaling Love. Mmmm
ReplyDeleteMay this blessings bless us all!
in Love and Gratitude,
Stacey (Go Gratitude)
Joy Dear,
ReplyDeletemay you savor a cornucopia of peace, good health and spiritual enlightenment in the new year.
With Love,
Marilyn Elias
A very JOYful, JOYous blessing!
ReplyDeleteTodah rabbah.
I'll bless with my voice...G-d willing...
Love,
Aviva
Absolutely luscious!
ReplyDeleteMay you be inscribed in the book of life.
Hare
LOVE IT!!
ReplyDeleteI am HOPING that this WONDERFUL photo of pomegranates
is one that YOU took!!!!!!
Your photographs have become better and better over the course
of this year and your "52 group".
Kol haKavod..
Here's to a WONDERFUL year!!
Barbara
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ReplyDeleteThank you Joy. And to you.
ReplyDeleteReb Shlomo used to talk about how everything we do here has an echo in heaven.
May the light and beauty from all the images you create, and from all your outreach to people,
be returned to you 100-fold in joyful echoes from heaven in the year ahead!
With blessings,
Aryae
Dearest Joy,
ReplyDeleteYour greeting includes all the blessings that one could possibly wish for a friend or loved one.
May you be inscribed to have the sweetest year...
filled with optimal health, joyous occasions and delight in every day and way.
Much love,
Ida
Thank you, Joy,
ReplyDeleteit was wonderful to be with you in Oregon, making music, dancing and praying.
Your blessings are much appreciated
and may this also be a good, sweet, inspiring, creative, and blessed year for you.
Love,
Diane
Thank you Joy...
ReplyDeletelovely photography and lovely message... I especially like "revealed miracles"...
May you and yours be blessed throughout the new year with a continuation of learning, love, and laughter.
Thank you very much.
ReplyDeleteShana Tova to you and all your loved ones.
Dear Joy,
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful to receive your passionate blessings and joy welcoming the New Year!
Thank you.
May all that you bring to us in your gifts be brought back to you in abundance to fulfill all your dreams in this New Year!.
Sarah
Mamash, I am so grateful for my friends gevaldt BlesSings back to me for the New Year.
ReplyDeleteFeeling deeply,
Love, Joy
Dear Joy,
ReplyDeleteL’shana tova back to you.
I send you so many blessings for a creative, healthy, balanced, loving new year.
And may our world find its way to greater peace.
Fondly,
Nan
Dear Joy,
ReplyDeleteThank you for thinking of me and for the beautiful wishes for a Shana Tova.
May you and all your loved ones enjoy a year filled with Hashem's abundant revealed blessings and some unrevealed blessings.
May you continue to share these blessings. May you continue to bring light into your life, the lives around you and into the world.
Good health, always faith and joy, sweetness and peace.
Shana Tova u'mituka
Faith and the entire Saunders Mishpacha
(Sukkot Pom and Palm)
ReplyDeleteI love your art and photography! MAGNIFICENT!
Chag Sameach!
xoxo Cindy