Lucite Bencher Set of 8, Double-Sided Side Opening #211

Design #211 takes the side-opening bencher format and prints it on both faces, eight panels to the set, each one 9.5 inches square in lucite with gold or silver work. Opening from the side rather than the top keeps the panel steady in one hand while you eat with the other, and the double-sided printing fits the whole birchas hamazon without a cramped point size.

The set comes in one nusach, Ashkenaz or Eduth Mizrach, so decide before ordering which one your table davens. Gold or silver should follow the leichter and the becher rather than the tablecloth — that is the choice that makes a set look deliberate instead of assembled. Eight covers a family plus a couple of guests; larger tables usually take two sets.

There is a matching bencher cover made in the #211 design, which is the reason a lot of people go with this number specifically. The cards live inside the cover between meals and the two read as one piece when they come out on Friday night. It also makes an unusually good sheva brachos or chanukas habayis present, because it looks like something that took thought.

• Malchut design #211
• Material: Lucite
• Nisuch: Ashkenaz, Eduth Mizrach
• Color: Gold, Silver
• Measures 9

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