Separating Challah

An alternate reading into the Torah’s words related to the mitzvah of separating challah provides instruction on when to begin educating our youth in yiddishkeit.

This mitzvah is so holy that women use the time of separating challah to pour their tender hearts out to G‑d.

Each letter of her name stood for one of the three special mitzvahs gifted and entrusted to women.

Study the daily lesson of Sefer HaMitzvos for day 141 with Rabbi Mendel Kaplan, where he teaches the mitzvah in-depth with added insight and detail.

An evening of inspiration, prayer and unity, as more than a 1000 Jewish women in Montreal, Canada join together to share and celebrate the special tradition of challah.

The mitzvah of separating the consecrated “challah” portion from dough is a symbol for a woman’s influence on the kashrut of the Jewish home.

How to make your own perfect challah dough from scratch. We then knead the dough, separate the “consecrated portion,” and leave the dough to rise.

There are three fundamental mitzvot entrusted to every Jewish woman. Separating challah “from the first of your dough” shows that before benefiting from anything in this world, we “set aside an offering for G‑d.” By knowing that the beginning of everythin...

The woman, the pillar of the Jewish home, has been gifted with three special mitzvot that are the foundation of Jewish living.

What were the calculations of ten of the spies that caused them to err so profoundly? And what did the women of Israel intuitively understand that these great “men of distinction” failed to comprehend?