o create each piece, artists used the finest materials and details normally reserved for full-sized homes. Kiddish wine cups are gold plated. Mahogany wood dining room chairs enjoy curved lines and tiny carvings. Dresser drawers open. Authentic Limoges pottery pieces sport tiny French romantic scenes from the 1700s.

Inside the mansion, you will find tile, inlaid floors, ceiling moldings and different wallpaper in each room. Outside, decorative carvings, clapboard siding, a central tower, bay window, porches, bricks and six-sided wooden shingles add elegance. For the permanent exhibit, we will provide accurately scaled imitation grass, trees and flowers for the yard.

Regarding Jewish objects, the home contains the following:

• Seder plates -- used to hold various symbolic foods eaten at various parts of the Passover meal.
• Mezuzot on door entryways -- contain Hebrew prayers intended to remind residents of a Jewish home about God.
• Yarmulke -- skull cap that Jewish men traditionally wear while saying prayers; more observant males wear them all the time. Lately, some women wear them as well.
• Tallis -- shawl worn by men and today by some women during prayers.
• Menorahs -- candelabras for holding Hannukah candles.
• Prayer books.
• Shofar -- rams horn that is blown during services for Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement).
• Talmud -- collection of books containing rabbinical commentary and debates on Jewish law.

From the kitchen to dining room, tiny replicas of traditional Jewish foods inside the home include:

• Challah -- braided egg bread eaten after the Friday night shabbat / sabbath prayers.
• Gefilte fish -- traditional Eastern European Jewish dish made from compressed pieces of ground-up fish.
• Matzos ball soup -- chicken broth with dumplings made out of matza and traditionally eaten during the Passover holiday.
• Hamentashen -- cookies eaten during the holiday of Purim. They are triangle shaped to represent Haman's hat, and filled with sweet jam or poppy seeds.

• Chanukah presents.
• "Shalom" plate.
• Picture of Jerusalem.