The Copper Mirror Legacy
My name is Micheline Welch, and I am the founder of Copper Mirror Press. As a Jewish mom, wife, and business owner, I have planned my days and weeks in a paper planner for years, but I always had to keep a separate Jewish calendar to keep track of holidays, the weekly parsha, Shabbat candle lighting times, and more.
I searched for a lifestyle planner that integrated both calendars, all of our holidays — major and minor — with the same aesthetic details I saw in all the major lifestyle planner brands such as Erin Condren, Colibri, Happy Planner, Laurel Denise, and others. As of 5786, I couldn’t find what I was looking for, so I set out to create it!
The Copper Mirror Weekly Planner is my flagship product for this effort, and every single copy sold out in under 8 weeks! Since then, the amazing reviews we have received and the feedback you’ve shared have empowered us to move forward with new ideas, new products, and new pathways. I hope our next planners become a part of your everyday life.
Today, we’re on a mission to help Jewish women feel seen in their everyday lives. We’re creating new products made just for us, while amplifying the work of the many small Jewish creators and brands we love, so that together we can build a new Jewish marketplace.
The Copper Mirror Legacy
In Parashat Vayakhel, when the Israelites built the Mishkan, the portable sanctuary they carried through the wilderness, the women brought their copper mirrors as a gift (Exodus 38:8).
The midrash tells us why those mirrors mattered. In Egypt, slavery had left the men so worn down that they had given up hope for the future. The women hadn’t. They used their mirrors to make themselves beautiful and to draw their husbands back to love and hope, and families kept growing. Those everyday mirrors helped the Jewish people survive.
Later, when the women offered the same mirrors for the Mishkan, Moses hesitated. To him they looked like vanity. But God told him, “Accept them, for these are more precious to Me than all the other gifts” (Rashi on Exodus 38:8, drawing on Midrash Tanchuma). Through these very mirrors, the women had kept love, hope, and family alive in Egypt, and it was because of them that the Jewish people grew and endured. The mirrors were melted down and made into the copper basin where the priests washed before serving in the sanctuary.
Something ordinary and personal, offered with intention, became holy. That is where our name comes from.
Paper as Holy Vessel
We believe paper can work the same way. When you sit down with a page to plan your days, weeks, and months, get ready for Shabbat, write down a question about this week’s parsha, or note what’s on your heart, you’re doing what those women did: using an everyday tool of reflection to take care of yourself, your family, and the people around you.
You Belong Here
Whether you light candles every Friday night or haven’t set foot in a synagogue in years, whether your household is interfaith, secular, cultural, or observant, or you’re still deciding, you belong at our table.
The 5788 Collection
Our 5787 planners sold out in 8 weeks.
Planners and stationery for the Jewish year ahead arrive summer 2027. Access to our new Limited-Edition collections opens in January 2027, in small runs, and when they’re gone, they’re gone.
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