Monday, October 03, 2016

New Year with Bees


This is my greeting for Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year).  I drew this on my iPad with the Brushes app, which captures a "stroke-by-stroke" video as you draw.  Last night I posted the resulting animation, and tonight I am posting the drawing itself.  This image shows with the apples and honey traditionally eaten on Rosh Hashanah, but it also shows bees (not traditional for the holiday). But without the bees, you can't have honey or apples or much of anything else!  Bees have recently landed on the endangered species list.  So my new year's greeting also includes a reminder about the bees, that as we are charged with tikkun olam (repairing the world), we need to protect the bees.

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