Q: Why does the blessing over bread exempt the other foods in a meal? A: There are two reasons for this: 1) Bead is the main part of a meal, and all the other foods are secondary to it. 2) ‘Bread’ is ...

It was definitely the low point in Moses’ mission to free the Hebrew slaves. Pharaoh responded to the demand for freedom by adding more oppressive measures, and the Israelites began to wish that Moses ...

Home Throwing bread at hamotzi The Jewish Chronicle Throwing bread at hamotzi Since when were adults allowed to throw food? February 16, 2012 11:57 By Rabbi Julian Sinclair, Rabbi Julian Sinclair 1 ...

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Chef Avi Levy, winner of Master Chef Israel in September 2011, and now the owner of HaMotzi, a home-style restaurant that reflects his Algerian and Moroccan heritage, isn’t the kind of man who ...

“Ima makes hamotzi” was a fact, entirely unrelated to personal or familial feminism. This year, that assumption changed. I’m currently spending a year studying at Ein HaNatziv, a midrasha, or Israeli ...