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April 8, 2021
For hundreds of years now, on the Shabbat following Passover, Jews have made
shlissel challah. Shlissel in Yiddish means “key.” Some families will make gorgeous bread loafs that look like a key. Others will hide an actual key inside a braided loaf. Others will press a key shape into the top of a challah roll. However a family may observe this custom, the goal is to evoke God to “open” the locked gates of heaven and grant more blessing.
Like any minhag, or Jewish custom, there is much debate about its validity and acceptability. Shlissel challah is exciting for some and for others a violation of authentic Judaism. The week after Pesach social media is flooded with #challahpics and an equal number of posts evoking the more aggressive and negative term,
Eitan (איתן) Yakhin
Hello Friends.
What does it mean to be “religious” today? Why are the divides between different Jewish groups widening? How do morality and G-d fit together?
A quick search gives me this definition of religious:
“forming part of someone’s thought about or worship of a divine being”
Going forward, I want to make a distinction between the terms “Observant” and “Religious”. In Hebrew, we could refer to these as “Shomer Mitzvot” and “Daati”.
The word ‘religious’, in my mind at least, connotates a certain fervor, a specific conscious decision to do or feel different things. In contrast, the word ‘observant’ brings to mind exactly what the word says: Being observant means that you are
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