Lekach

3 Eggs 1 1/3 cups honey 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 cup strong black coffee 2 tsps. Baking powder 3 Tbsps. Margarine, softened 1 tsp. Baking soda 4 cups flour 1 tsp cinnamon Preheat oven to 325. Grease and flour a 9 by 13-inch cake pan. In a large mixer bowl, ...

It is customary to ask for and receive "lekach" (sweet cake -- signifying a sweet year) from someone (usually one's mentor or parent) on the day before Yom Kippur.

Here is where things are really upside down. We have this false illusion that when someone gives money to someone else, the giver is the big hero, the generous one, the amazing one. And that poor, pathetic receiver . . . should just be grateful that ...

MyThis is an unauthenticated record of the Rebbe’s words when distributing lekach (sweet cake) during the morning of erev Yom Kippur, 5711 [1950]. revered father-in-law once related:Brief notes (rashei devarim) relating to the morning of erev Yom Kippur, ...

We observe many, many minhagim (customs) without knowing why we do so — “Oh, that’s the minhag !” or, “It’s just something that people do; it doesn’t have any real significance…” might be the answer when someone asks what the reason is for keeping a ...

It is customary to ask for and receive lekach (sweet cake -- signifying a sweet year) from someone (usually one's mentor or parent) on this day. One of the reasons given for this custom is that if it had been decreed, G-d forbid, that during the year we ...

The Rebbe distributes the traditional lekach - sweet honey cake for a sweet year

In case it has been decreed upon a person to turn to others for help this coming year, it should already be fulfilled now, by receiving this sweet cake.

What is the reason behind the custom of asking for honey cake before the holiday of Yom Kippur?

Distribution of Lekach, honeycake, with wishes for a sweet New Year. This is an age-old tradition on Hosha’ana Rabah. The Rebbe hands Lekach to men, women and children of all walks of life.