Tomer is a keen
West Ham United Football Club fan. The colour scheme at his Bar Mitzvah celebration was going to be all claret and sky blue, West Ham's home colours, so it was obvious that I should show him in a West Ham shirt on the cover of his Bar Mitzvah album too.
Tomer is wearing
tefillin on his head and left arm (there is a widely accepted practice for Jewish boys to start wearing
tefillin approximately thirty days prior to their Bar Mitzvah), and has a black chess piece in one hand and his red table tennis bat in the other. These items represent two of his favourite pastimes. A football is next to him, and the
Doctor Who 1960's British Police Box behind him. (The Police Box that Doctor Who travels around in is really a Type 40 time and space machine from Gallifrey, his home planet. The time machine is called TARDIS, which stands for Time And Relative Dimension in Space.) There are gold Magen Davids in two corners of the cover and they are of course surrounded by the West Ham colours!
The album opens up the English way (Hebrew books open from right to left) but Tomer's name appears in both English and Hebrew, and the date of his Bar Mitzvah in Hebrew only.
Mum messaged me to tell me that "Tomer LOVES his album and [the matching] card. He declared them "siiiiick", which is apparently the highest form of praise that exists!
5 comments:
Nice work. I love the Doctor Who detailing since I used to watch the original show as a little girl with my dad!
Wonderful work.
The Tardis on a Bar Mitzvah card, love it. Mazel tov.
I might not be a robot but I may be a Dalek.
How great to make it so personal and fun!
Never realized that books and cards, etc. open on the left side! (maybe because I'm left handed, am so used to do things going against my own nature). A splendid card, Lisa! Thanks you so much for sharing this Bar Mitzvah with SEASONS -always lovely and such fun! Have a great week:)
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