I baked challah tonight for a number of friends who are starting to gather for a wedding this weekend. The challah took three hours to bake and fourteen minutes to devour. Therefore, for every one minute of challah consumption, there were thirteen painstaking minutes of preparation: mixing, kneading, braiding, slaving and sweating in the New Jersey humidity. I just hope the ravenous bunch who ate the challah appreciated how much arduous, backbreaking work went into that loaf of bread just so they could gobble up the whole thing in a fraction of the time it took me to make it.
Also, granules of yeast were literally jumping to their deaths out of the measuring spoon. Like, in a self-propelled, autokinetic, lemming-like way. It was the oddest thing.
Sure was tasty, though. (I’ll post the recipe at some point soon.)
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29 June 2008 at 3:01 pm
Friar Yid
Ah, but did you remember to “take challah“? No? Then you missed the most important part of the mitzvah!
On the other hand since “the mitzvah of taking challah symbolizes our superior relationship with Hashem which is possible only in the Land of Israel”, maybe its a case of it being better you didn’t since you’d be trying to fulfill a mitzvah improperly.
You know, like that time we built our own version of the tabernacle in the backyard and tried to sacrifice the neighbor’s goat.