(RNS) The theme of life and death is at the heart of Rosh Hashanah, celebrated with a drizzle of honey to signify hopes for sweet New Year.
You can watch this drama unfold in miniature in a beehive. A single honeybee makes 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime; a pound of honey is the life’s work of 325 bees. As we celebrate the New Year, we celebrate a life’s work and focus on the sweet results.
“To see the bees work in the hive and then extract the honey and see it in a jar is like having your child bring home (his or her) first drawing from school and hang it on the fridge,” says Laurey Masterton, the author of “The Fresh Honey Cookbook: 84 Recipes from a Beekeeper’s Kitchen” (Storey, $14.95). “You are just so full of pride that your bees made that.”
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