Hi friends, It's beautifully Jewish host Tanya Singer here with a special

episode about your High Holiday Table. We're bringing you three interviews

today. We have blogger Rebecca Lowen who joins us to talk about how to decorate your holiday table.

Then we're joined by etiquette expert Lisa Gache, who shares some tips about how to behave around the table and finally

we interview restaurateur Steve Cook and Michael Solomonov to give us some culinary

inspiration. But before we get to the interviews I want to share a

little bit about why we decided that this month's beautifully Jewish object

should be the table itself.

When I got married 26 years ago, my husband's grandfather Nat wanted us to have something

for our new home.

He wanted us to have a dining table.

A table, I thought? We had a cheap table and chairs my husband

bought before we lived together. It would hold up I thought. A table was

expensive and plus how could we accept such a big gift? I thought we could use the money on

something we really needed. Not a luxury item like a big dining table, but Grandpa Nat

insisted. The gift was a fitting one. Grandpa Natt and his wife Miriam of Blessed

Memory hosted countless bustling holiday meals in their home in Queens, New York. It was only

fitting that we should have a table to because as the first of

their grandchildren to be married we were to bring the next generation of family

together around that table. I didn't think of the table as particularly Jewish at the time

but have since learned how deeply spiritual that gift was. You might think that

the thing that makes it Jewish is the obvious connection to family and being together.

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