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Above: A table dressed for the shevah Vrachot following a wedding.
Below: Adding festivity to the Chaunkah holiday.

include a sedet plate and matzah.
Ulrych suggests thinking about the
stories behind a holiday and incorpo-
rating them.
For example, she once used green as
a basis for a Passover table, symboliz-
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frogs on the table, representing the
Ten Plagues.
• Use atypical items as conversation
starters. Tie napkins with ribbons, on
which you've written a different com-
mandment Have each person recite a
different commandment and discuss
it. Or, fill little picture
frames with different
mitzvot, and ask each
person to start a con-
versation based on
what theirs says. Give
them the frames as
gifts. -
-Incorporate treas-
ured family items into
your celebrations. On
her own tables, Ulrych
includes her grand-
mother's worn prayer-
book, shaped like a
pocketbook, from pre-
war Poland.
Celebrating is
"about memories and
remembering that
treasured things have
meaning," she says. I

