PRIVATE ESTATE

Lee Loosen Siegelson, former Detroiter and Cranbrook alumnus,
travels the world collecting rare and unusual jewelry.

Emerald & Diamond Bracelet

Natural Fancy Yellow Diamond

139 green emeralds 17cts and
129 round diamonds approx. 17cts.
Platinum.
Lot no. 1752 $47,000

1 radiant cut diamond 11.53cts,
2 side trillion diamonds 1.53cts
Platinurn/18ICYG.
Lot no. 00654
$110,000

Round Diamond Necklace

1 center round diamond 2.86cts and
95 round diamonds 25.82cts. Platinum.
Lot no. 299
$90,000

Baguette Diamond Necklace

Ruby & Diamond Ring

1 oval faceted ruby 7.76cts surrounded
by 44 baguette and round diamonds.
Approx. 3.00cts. 18KYG.
Lot no. 4639
$75,000

201 baguette diamonds 65.00cts. Platinum.
Lot no. 438
$125,000

"David Webb" Sapphire
& Diamond Ring

Diamond Pin

115 baguette, round and pear
shaped diamonds 21.00cts. Platinum.
Lot no. 1114
$20,000

15 square sapphires 7.50cts and
50 baguette and round diamonds 7.00cts
Platinum.
Lot no. 4696
$36,000

Sapphire & Diamond Necklace

Emerald Cut Diamond Ring

1 center heart shape sapphire 40.00cts.
Approx. 42.00cts diamonds. Platinum.
(shown below)
Lot no. 390
$175,000

1 emerald cut diamond 6.18cts.
Platinum mounting with
2 tapered baguettes.
Lot no. 00746
$46,000

Partial listing. All items available for
examination in your home or office.

TORAHS page 10

damaged to be used in a service;
but, it was an artifact to cherish
and protect for all that it had sur-
vived. It looked old and shabby
and its worn case was as soft and
delicate as a kitten.
I remember the five or six
Torahs at the Miami Beach Or-
thodox congregation we attend-
ed many years ago, when South
Beach was still full of retired peo-
ple instead of trendy fashion
models. The Torahs were all
beautiful, but the elderly men
who carried them to the bima
and marched around the shul
with them on Simhat Torah,
were always very picky about
which Torah they got to carry.
Why? Because most of the scrolls
were very heavy, a real burden
for a man in his eighties who has
to circle the hall; but two of them
were small and light and great-
ly favored for the long yontif
promenades. My husband, the
youngest in the congregation by
several decades, would always

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To Bed We Go
After The Bedlam

ERICA MEYER RAUZIN SPECAIL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

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take a heavy one. Often, he de-
liberately stationed himself in the
Simhas Torah parade behind
some elderly congregant who was
trying not to stagger under his
holy burden, just in case the old
gentleman needed a bit of prop-
ping up.
Now we are members of an Or-
thodox shul filled with young
families and little children. My
favorite memory from recent
Simhat Torah processions also
evokes my husband carrying a
Torah, but this time he has ad-
ditional baggage: our five-year-
old son (whose sisters are both
too big to be passengers any
more) sitting on his shoulders,
waving a flag, singing, trying to
both hold or tight and clap his
hands at the same time, and
shouting with delight every time
he passes me.
Every image I have of the
Torah, of Simhat Torah, is a
happy one, but that is the best
of all.

ou've made your bed, now
lie in it.
Sorry, I haven't made it
yet.
My sheets don't fit. My blanket
isn't straight. My spread has a
mind of its own. My pillows are
too big for my cases and my dust
ruffle is dusty. I want a nap, but I
haven't got anywhere to take it.
This is a saga of beds.
Sounds simple, but just you
wait and see. There are five peo-
ple in our family, plus a dog, and
providing bedding for each of them
is its own separate issue.
Right now, my son is asleep on
the floor of my den, sprawled on
his sister's sleeping bag, exhaust-
ed at last by his efforts to stay with
Mommy until he passes out. My
husband is nodding at the paper-
covered dining table, an activity
he refers to as "going through the
mail." My oldest daughter is
asleep in the guest bed in my mid-
dle daughter's room, although we
just rearranged her own bedroom
to her precise liking not three
weeks ago. And the dog is on the
couch, naturally.
When I wake up my oldest in
the morning, she will stagger out
of her sister's room; and, somehow,
between there and her closet, she
will be captured by her own bed.
She will fall into it, and doze an-
other 20 minutes, just long enough
to create another frantic school
morning, and another bed to
make. I can prevent this if I stick

Erica Rauzin is a Miami Beach
free lance writer.

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with her every second, but it isn't
easy. She's quick, that one.
By the time I wake up the
smaller children, my son will
have totally stripped his bed, as
he does almost every night. His
pillows will be on the floor, his
blanket will be tangled with his
top sheet, and his head will be at
the foot of the bed half hidden by
a plush dinosaur. He moves more
in his sleep than a major league
baseball team does in broad day-
light.
I know morning will find my
middle daughter—who is never
lonely when she sleeps whether
or not her sister is present—
squeezed to one narrow side of
her bed. This is necessitated by
her choice of bed-fellows: a big
doll and a bigger stuffed panda.
The doll doesn't just sleep with
my child; the doll sleeps with my
child but in her own cardboard
box bed, which is about nine inch-
es wide and a foot-and-a-half
long. It takes a while to tuck my
child in at night, but it takes
longer to tuck in her doll. Then,
when the doll is settled, the pan-
da also has to be accommodated.
A wonderful children's book,
Winifred's New Bed, captures a
similar situation, a little girl
edged out of bed by her many
toys; but my daughter brings it
to life.
As for our master bedroom,
don't even ask. I have destroyed
the image of the flawless Jewish
housekeeper with just one room,
a room better suited, perhaps, to
the perfect Jewish librarian. ❑

