Hallah

Some Jewish foods, such as hallah — braided egg bread — that appeal to mainstream America palates appear regularly in general American collections. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Before each batch of dough hits the conveyor belt, one of two mashgichim monitoring the mixing system grabs an egg-sized amount called the "hallah" and throws it in a bin for later discarding, according to Jewish law.

I didn't realize you had to make your own rolls, but could you use a good hallah roll in a pinch? ❋ Homesick Texan (2009)

In My History there are a hallah cover, photos of Anne Frank, Frida Kahlo and the young Chagall in an art class, and the Star of David Jews were required to wear under the Nazis. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Such activities as attending shul, making a sukka, and celebrating the weekly Sabbath are interspersed with all of the kitchen activities typical of an Orthodox Jewish household — rolling dough for teyglekh, making gefilte fish, baking hallah. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These small girls knew how to make gefilte fish and to weave eight braids in their hallah. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Drawing heavily on the recently published Shulhan Arukh he instructed them on how to measure the necessary volume to know whether or not a particular dough was obligated to have hallah taken from it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The three mitzvot given explicitly to women — hallah, niddah and hadlaka [= mitzvot HaNaH] — are given a negative connotation because Eve brought death into the world, thereby extinguishing the light (ner) of Adam, who was the dough (hallah) of the world, and by spilling his blood, which left her the obligation in niddah. ❋ LeBeit Yoreh (2009)

For example, she learned how to follow dietary laws, to perform separation of hallah, the kashering (soaking and salting) of meat and the ritual immersion of utensils, to eschew forbidden foods, to say blessings for meals, for candle-lighting and for other occasions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You have created three death tests [a wordplay based on the similarity between amatkha, Your maidservant, and mitah, death] for woman [You have given women three tests, and transgressing one of them is liable to result in her demise]: niddah, the taking of hallah, and the kindling of the Sabbath lights. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The exceptions to this generalization pertained to the laws of niddah (ritual purity), candle lighting and the commandment of hallah (separating a portion of the dough when baking bread, as an offering to God). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hannah is depicted by the Rabbis as a righteous woman who was devout in her observance of the commandments, especially those of pilgrimage to the Tabernacle, niddah (the laws governing family purity), the taking of hallah from dough, and the kindling of the Sabbath lights. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The commandments that are mentioned — hallah and the kindling of the Sabbath light — are commandments reserved for women. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These two obligations may also be performed by a man if no woman is present; in fact, hallah is taken whenever bread is baked regardless of the gender of the baker. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Three special commandments were given to woman to atone for her sin: niddah [menstrual purity], the taking of hallah from dough, and the kindling of the Sabbath lights. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For the same reason, women are also said to be responsible for the commandment of hallah in relation to Sabbath loaves. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Cook emphasizes that the three traditional commandments for women (M Shabbat 2: 6) have an additional meaning: niddah allows women to become arbiters of their ritual status (paralleling priestly function); hallah (separating the dough) parallels the priest; candle-lighting parallels the menorah in the temple. ❋ LeBeit Yoreh (2009)

Isaac saw that Rebekah acted in the same manner as had his mother: she kneaded dough in purity and set aside her hallah in purity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These are the kindling of Sabbath lights before sunset (hadlakah) and removing some of the dough from the Sabbath loaf and burning it in the oven in remembrance of Temple sacrifice (hallah). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Conversas would clean their homes or have them cleaned by their servants in honor of the Sabbath, and bake hallah, even removing and burning a piece of dough as is required by Jewish law. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Michelangelo]: “The stars are as [endless] as they are beautiful" [Leonardo]: “Hallah is more unique and beautiful than all the stars combined." ❋ Swoots (2015)

It was [great] to [see] Hallah [today] ❋ Milkweed444 (2022)

[hallah] ❋ TheCockSuckerisMe (2023)