The Secrets of the Challah - Rebbetzin Orit Esther Riter

[Music] First of all, hesish tub should have a good hesish. This is a difficult hesh. It's a kadesh with um even though it's you know with denim hashem gave us the name beautiful name a hashem is still telling us within the month there is plenty plenty what to feel in terms of feeling hashem's presence I want to give a little I want to talk a little bit about um you know the whole idea of kala um islatem you know a lot of us have really come to become so used to the act of just going out to the bakery and buying our kala and that's really convenient at certain times and certain shabbat in certain moments of the month of and certain times of the year. Um but as a most part I would really like for us to walk away tonight number one with um a warm emotional association. Thank you. um with the whole idea of uh kala to hopefully be able to understand a little bit more what the um beauty behind the mitzvah of kala is and that's one of the reasons why I asked everyone to also come with the ingredients so that we can mix it together because as we mix it together we mix in our love and our kavanas and our blessings and everything comes into the kala together and essentially when you go to the bakery and you buy a kala it's like buying a body without a soul. And when we put our love and we put our tilot and we put all of our kavanas into the kala, we're literally as we know we are balls of spiritual energy and every word that we say every kavana, every thought, speech and action. That's what the Jewish mission is all about. We should refine our thoughts and our speech and our actions. Everything that we do essentially has rippled effects uh further further further away. A fact is let me teach you an insight. What happens to our tilot when we say a tila for Yakov Ben Esther right let's say we say aila I'm going and I'm dvening for Yakov Ben Esther that he should have a complete refor and I'm sure there's a Yakob Ben Esther someone out there that needs a complete reforce. So you should have a complete fifu. What happens to those words? So the mystic mystical teachings teach us that those words literally the sound waves as they're leaving my mouth, they travel and travel and travel and travel like a GPS. They find their way to Yakov Ben Esther and they envelop him when they reach him. And they essentially enveloped Yakob Van Esther with a sense of of warmth, a sense of love, a sense of strength. And he actually feels my tila subconsciously. Now imagine if thousands of people are saying YaKob Ben Esther. Imagine as we saw this week, I'm sure everyone heard the beautiful miracle of Kaya Raelbat Dina. She should have a complete refor continuous complete reforce LMA. Tomorrow I'm actually speaking at the Oelssara main group as Latash and Lawrence the for the mother of this beautiful young special lady. And the idea is imagine these thousands if not tens if not hundreds of thousands if not millions of Tilot that kept enveloping her bed, enveloping her family because we also dabbing for the family that they should have k. Imagine the power of all of these sound waves, all this warmth, all this um this this comfort, this care, this support that come and is now enveloping this this haha and and so on and so forth. So this is essentially the the k of am is hashem we let's understand that hashem created the world with speech. Hashem created the world through speaking the world into exist existence and so that we when we speak just to give you a little bit of a coalistic sort of insight how important it is our tilot how important it is to speak and tonight we're going to also see that when we're kneading and we're if you take for instance even the word looch means to need when we need the bread the word looch comes from the word lashon my tongue the The whole idea of lauchet to to knead the dough is to speak. It's to nurture it. It's to cradle it. In fact, as the mystical teachings teach us that the bowl is like an Arisa, it's like a cradle. It's there to sort of really we should feel that the dough is like a baby. Like we're we're really taking care of it. We're we're we're worrying about it because all of our kavanas, all of our speech, everything is inside that dough. We're pouring our hearts out. We're pouring pouring our co out into for those of us who don't have a Bosch machine, right? For all those that are doing it by hand, we're actually putting our co into this dough. But to talk just one more moment about the whole idea of speech, when we speak the kadoshim teach us that speech, our mouths in the tense, the mouth is actually malut. This is where you appoint yourself and you appoint yourself to be king over your emotions. When you speak, you have this ability to rule over your emotions and your thoughts. And that is why it is so important to pray and to talk. To talk about your emotions to Hashem, to talk about what you want, to talk about your desires, to talk about your wishes, to talk about your yearning and your craving and your longing. Because it's through the speaking that we're able to essentially control our emotions. And so many women that I meet from all around the world, there's one issue that every woman seems to have a problem, including me. And that is how I know I believe that or I I believe I know Hashem is in charge of my life. I have no doubt that Hashem loves me, but why am I so upset? Why am I so frustrated? What is going on? How do I get it to affect my heart? How do I get it to affect my emotions? So teaches us I want to increase my amuna. Start speaking ladies. Start speaking. We were given right the nine uh channels of speech came down 10 channels of speech came down to the world. Women took nine. Notice how much we speak. And why? Because Hashem said because I want you to use it not for idol chatter and for gossip and all the stuff that we get lured into. No, I want you to be able to speak to me because you're emotional creatures. You're spiritual creatures. And I want you to use that ability, that gift to speak, to become king and queen over your emotions and to get me, so to speak. Hashem says, to get me to do what you're asking me to do. Can you believe that? Hashem wants us to convince him to do that which he really wants. But he wants us to come to that conclusion alone. He wants us to yearn and desire for wholesomeness and sa and gula on our own. And when we do, we yell out to him. And when we yell out to him, we align our ratson with his ratson. And this brings That is the that he essentially feels that we are one with him. With that let's go into the introduction of kala. What is the whole idea about kala? is if we can go back to the beginning of time, go back to according to the according to theim the was called is called the kala of the world. How can that be? Hashem goes down and explains and this is again we're going very here. We're going very simplistic, but I want us to understand what we're doing when we're doing kala. Hashem, so to speak, took the earth from the four corners of the world and then took water from the four corners of the world and mixed it together, so to speak, like a dough and created the flesh and the body of Adamarish. And so Adamishan is called the dough of the world. So essentially what happened is is Hashem took and made a dough and which because you know of the sin which we're all part of and we all part of Adam. So you know we shouldn't go pointing fingers at someone else. It's also us. We're carrying part and sparks of his nishama and are here to be to fix and correct also that. But essentially, Hava took that dough, so to speak, and made it, you could say, sour. You could say that basically cause damage to Adam, to the first kala. And that is why every Jewish woman should make it her custom as best as possible. Yes. Without yelling at the kids. I mean, if we could do it in a calm, collected, joyful way as much as possible. Even if it's once a month, we essentially should come and do the because through that when did the sin happen? Shabbat. And so essentially when we go ahead and we perform the mitzvah of we essentially are aligning ourselves with the idea of correcting the the transgression of and bringing about the tikun and and hastening up the mitzvah of was given to us in parat. It was the first mitzvah that is given upon entering Israel. Why? Because imagine this. Am Israel came out of the midbar. They were clothed. They were nice and cozy. They had the the the clouds covering hovering over them. Nice natural shade co, you know, helping them out. They didn't have to change their clothes. They didn't have to worry about sustenance. They didn't have to worry about food. They had to worry about nothing. They were totally taken care of. Suddenly they come into Erit Israel and Hashem says, "Okay guys, get to work. Start harvesting the land. Start growing the wheat, harvesting, working, doing." Wait a minute. I'm a spoiled brat here. I got everything taken care of me. Now you want me to go and work. And Amuel did not want to go in. That's one of the one of the reasons that it brought down why we didn't want to come into Israel. Imagine that. Eric Israel, the promised land. and we didn't want to go in because we would have rather been spoiled in the midbar. But okay, we had to go in. Hashem made us go in. And essentially once we got in, Hashem said, "But listen, I know how hard it is going to be for you to stay attached to me while you're working the lands. I mean, after all, working 9 to5, having to travel the subways, going in taxis, hooers, all this makes you somehow disconnect from me. And somehow or another, you might forget that I have been arranging your life. I'm the one that helped you through college. I'm the one who got you the job. I'm the one who gave you the bonus at the end of the year. It's going to be very hard for you to continue to remember me. So, Hashem says, "When I put you in Israel, you have to start re you have to remember that I'm involved in the mundainess of the working workplace, the everyday workplace. So, I'm giving you the mitzvah. Hala. So that you can infuse the Monday work, you know, everyday work, uh, you know, uh, system with the remembrance that I'm the one who's in charge of life. I'm the one who's bringing you the parasa. And so essentially, if you look at it, even you two ladies that you are here sitting in Israel on the physical aspect, we're all in Galos. Even us in Erit Israel, we're all in Galus, but we're a little bit less affected, of course, by the galus when you're in Erit Israel. But doesn't matter. Even you ladies here sitting here on Mata and in the foreign country, not not on on Erit Israel's soil, when you go ahead and you perform, do you know what you're doing? You're giving the for Israel to be owned and to be inhabited by Jewish people because essentially the first mitzvah gave us the right to live in Erit Israel and that was so every time that we do it's like you're taking a vote that you agree that the Jewish people should be the rightful owners of Erit Israel and you're putting it in the UN box. you're essentially giving kak for the Jewish people to have the right to inhabit and live in Israel peacefully. So remember that. The other thing I want to mention in terms of the importance of of doing what do we essentially do when we take the kala and we take a little piece. Think about it. We take a little piece and we lift it up. And you don't perform the mitzvah of unless you say the three words zalah. Do you know that those three words when you lift it up, you're lifting it up as if it's a corban on the of the mikdash. When you lift it up before you did that braha, before you separated the kala, that dough in that bowl was isor gamur. If you if a person partakes and enjoys the kala before the hafa, it's like he's eating something assur. He's not allowed to enjoy it. He's totally not allowed to enjoy it. By those three words, the idea of the hafa, you have now transformed something that is totally prohibited to something that is completely permitted and is even a mitzvah. Imagine the power of I'm taking something and hashem is giving me the talk about co-creator. Talk about being part of a part and partners with the CEO of the entire existence. Hashem has now given us women the ability to take something that was previously assur and now make it mutar. And by doing so, Hashem gives to us the ultimate gift of kindness. Hashem now has enabled us who Hashem who is the ultimate giver has now given us the ability to be the biggest givers of all to be able to create something with that which we are doing with our own hands. And that is essentially the greatest gift that Hashem gives us. He puts us in a world and he makes us work. He makes us refine and essentially our work transforms existence and we feel that and we see that and we taste it a little bit on the on on a the surface like when we are when we do the haphatala let's look a little bit at the play of words in terms of kala first of all interestingly enough where is where where was David born Davidid a melik anybody know which town. Come on 101. Everybody forgot girls and everything. Huh? Bethlehem. He was born in Bethlehem. Imagine that. That the Messiah was born in a house of bread. What is that telling you? It's not just stumb. It's nothing is dumb. Nothing is by coincidence. It means that through the performance of bringing kala into your buy it you are essentially infusing in your home your home becomes a home of gula your home becomes a place that will has the tendency to receive msiach where the light of msiach begins to illuminate in your home just a little again I'm trying to get all you ladies very excited here tonight about making kala another thing I want to mention if you look at the gimatria let's look at two different gimatrias about the whole idea of kala. Men the gimatria the numerical value of minn is 93. If you take kala kala is 43 and if you add 50 which when you do the ha you take 150 if that's the quantity you're supposed to take out from the kala you get 93. So through the mitzvah of kala and the hafa of the kala you're going to have hagana and protection on your home another gimatia 145 is equal to the word isa what did we say isa is the do if you take the word kala 43 and you add to it my favorite word amuna sugar 102 2 + 43 is 145. 145 which is issa which is dough. So by doing kala by lifting up the kala and saying hashem I worked I toiled. I went to the supermarket. It was so heavy. It was so hot outside and I toiled and I brought the bags even though I could have gone over to I don't know Butterflake Bakery or wherever it is and I could have just gotten my kalas for maybe even half the price. I went ahead and I lifted it up and I said, "No, no, no. At the end of the day, with all my toil, all the things that I do, I'm lifting it up to you. It belongs to you. What am I? What am I? I just did a couple of chores here." But essentially, it's all belongs to you. You're the manel of the entire world. And so through that, what am I getting? Through that I'm instilling inside of myself the fact that Hashem runs the world. Kala reminds us of the word the beginning. By doing we have the ability to envelop ourselves with a sense of new beginning. All those decrees, all those difficulties, all those hardships through we will be able to create for ourselves a new beginning of more joyful, a more similar way and easier way, a more filled of raim kind of way to serve. If you take the word and you divide it into two, we have right and then the hey the depending on where the vowel is could be also h and can also be kal. So means again the start hashem the beginning of hashem. Why? Because through the mitzvah of performing you are essentially what are we doing? Taking the first part of the kala and giving it to hashem. And again, here's another hint to understanding that through the idea of kala, if you look at just the name kala, you remind yourself that everything begins begins with hashem. And if you look at it from the other vowel, hashem, you what what are we doing? What is means? Means mundane, every day, work week. By performing the mitzvah of hala, we are taking the everyday activity and we're infusing it with hashem where again look at all of these sim all of these signs of the ability of injecting hashem into our everyday life. And just another one let's just do another play of words. I have so many of them also we have the word hlama. Hlama means healing. It's through the mitzvah, particularly when you knead that dough. When you put that dough together, all those little ingredients that once were here's the flour and here's the salt and here's the yeast and here's the sugar. Everything was this. Everything was separated. When you put that water in and you mix it together and you knead it together again, you're creating something new, something that was not there when the ingredients were separated. And so when we when we need the dough, we dive in that through the putting together, Hashem will put together all of the necessary ingredients for healing for all those in need. And that's brutesh. It's brut. It means the components and the elements that people need in their homes for the ingredients that people need in order to be please God be to children to put together an ish and is it gives us the ability to mash put together and heal the world. So with that, I'd say let's get our stuff together and we're going to start doing the kala and then I'll come back after and talk a little bit more. But let's uh let's start with the program. So now that we've uh our dough is beautifully uh taken form and bar hashem it's now in its proper position to rise. I want to mention a couple of different ideas while it's rising. A few things we want to make sure first of all again is to cover the bowl with a bag because we definitely want to keep that activity of the gases of the schmaram to stay within the bowl and not let it dissipate by covering it with a towel. I usually put the entire bowl inside a garbage bag and let me bring you down a very beautiful beautiful sigula that's brought down from the zora kadosh. We didn't bring it today but be bzatem next week when we do a kala again we will remember this sigula you take a whole head of garlic. Now the idea of garlic is not just bubba misa it really does have its effect in being able to ward off bad energy. So the sigula is is to take a whole head of garlic put it on top of the bag as the dough is rising. This will bring about two things. Number one, the rising will take place quicker. And number two, what the zor brings down more importantly is that the garlic now is working its way. Don't ask me how, I don't understand it, but on a metaphysical manner, the garlic actually draws all the brahas that we put into the dough, takes part of it, leave the rest of it in for us to also enjoy while we eat it. But what it does is it takes it and you take that head of garlic. Don't use it for your mukha and don't use it for your meals. You're not supposed to eat it. You take it, you wrap it in after the the rising process is done. You you wrap it in like a white uh computer paper, something completely so it's not seen to the eye, and you take that garlic and you put it on your window sill of your bedroom. And what it does is it feeds your home the entire week with all of the brahas that you put into your dough. But no, the idea is that nobody should know about it. After a week, after a week, open up that garlic and see how it looks. If you had a in your home, the the garlic will have rotted and pulled away all of the from your home. And if it's intact, it means I have no and so is coming my way either. But it's it's a it's it's a it's what the the sigula of the garlic. You had a question. So again, we're going to say this again. It's important to note. You take the whole head, a whole head. It has to be whole. A whole head of garlic. You place it on the bag on top of your hala. Okay? You allow your dough to rise. Then you take your garlic, you wrap it in paper, either in white computer paper or something that it should not be seen to the human eye and you put it on the window sill of your bedroom. It's important the bedroom is the kesha keshim. That's why we put it in the bedroom and it should just sit there. Rain, shine, snow, let it sit there. What you'll do is huh? You wrap it. You wrap it in paper. What I do is basically I put it in, I roll it up and then I fold the two sides and I just leave it there on the window sill. And you check that garlic after a week or the next time you bake holla. It could stay there. If you don't make hala till six months, let it sit there. Let it sit there. Let it sit there. You should check it though after a week just for that purpose of seeing if it's rotted or not. And don't blame it on the weather and don't blame it on the ants and don't blame it on whatever. It's if it rots, it's it's rotting because of the fact that it's pulling iron on outside. outside, not in the house. You want it outside. I'm sorry. Well, I don't know. In Israel, we have like a ledge and you have soim and you have like it's it's it's heavy enough. It should sit there. It's No, a whole head. Yeah, it should it should sit there. I don't know what kind of storms we have. I lived in America. It's not that stormy either. A garlic. The bedroom. The bedroom. There's nothing there. Can you hang it off? Can you find a way of putting it in a bag? Maybe hang it off. Do something. Be creative. Come on. All right. And and the idea is for you to leave it there until the next time you make hala. But if you want, you could check it after a week and see if it does look a little rotty or if it starts to rot, then you know, it did its job and it's taken away the the bad energies and the bad forces. There should be none in am should be on our enemies. And that's uh you know, just another little sigula. Zoradosh brings it down. This garlic idea. Yes. Yes. I mean, it's not for nothing that our grandmothers used to put garlic on top of the I know till today. I have I have garlic and I have coarse salt sitting on top of my right on top of my doorway. Yes. And it's it's not for nothing. It's known. It's it's a it's a known uh biblical teaching that garlic has the ability to ward off bad energies. And so this in particular, what it's nice is it also takes and it also pumps. So it's nice. It's like that secular secular, you know, uh that cycle form. The next time that you make hala, you just discard that garlic and you put a new one on. No, now it's it has to be now during the before you do the hafa before you do the garlic, right? You put it you put the the bowl in the gar in a garbage bag, a clean garbage bag, you know, in a garbage bag and then you put the garlic on top of it and and open. Yes. Now I want to teach you also something new that a lot of women don't know. So again I'm really trying to encourage us ladies to do the mitzvah of hala do it with the kavanas really have bring braha into our house. I'm going to give you a system. Before I was diagnosed with MS I was uh I learned in culinary school. So I'm not just a speaker and amuna but I'm also a trained chef by profession. I had my own catering business for 15 years in the tri-state area. So I learned professionally how to cook and bake. So I'm going to teach you a system that's not Torah based but just you know uh that uh it's a system that if you want to start preparing you want to make kala it's very hard 100% to start making kala Thursday night. It's very difficult. We're we're we're busy with our lives. So I'm going to teach you a systemat to be able to start making kala already on Wednesday. You make the kala on Wednesday. You do everything that we just did. You put the garlic on top of the bag and you put the bowl in the refrigerator and you let it rise in the refrigerator. It's a process in culinary terms called retardation. You're retarding the dough. You're causing the dough to grow but in a very very slow manner. And Thursday before Shia, you take the bowl out of the refrigerator, you let it warm down a little bit to room temperature. Thursday before Skia just so or whenever like an hour or two before you're ready to do the hrasha you take it out of the refrigerator then you it warms down you do the huffa okay you do the garlic thing and then you do your braiding you put it on the English pans or whatever pans you decide to use right you egg it you sesame seed it you chocolate it you garlic it you whatever it and then you put it back in the refrigerator on Thursday night again and it will do its second rising in the refrigerator again. You get up in the morning, you have gorgeous grown blown halas and you put it straight into the oven on 200 degrees Celsius or you know uh uh 400 Thursday night you do everything Thursday night so you don't have to bake it even Thursday night and Friday morning you wake up to amazing aroma of gan eden in your home and the process started on Wednesday and you really almost didn't feel it because you broke down the whole process so it makes it a lot easier. Yes. It listen, if you if by the time you put it in the refrigerator, it was out for a half an hour, then that's the pro that's a problem. And if your refrigerator is not cold enough, that's also a problem. So, in other words, it has to all be situated so that it's really all, you know, working, you know, in that advantage that it's in a cool environment, it's covered properly, so it also doesn't dry out and and that no chance of it smell. In other words, at this point, I finished, right? I did. I covered it. I put the garlic. I straight in the refrigerator. I don't waste time. It was straight in the refrigerator. I did my my my uh braiding, but I brushed it. As it as I as I start doing it, I already find it rising, but I'm throwing it right into the refrigerator. And you only fill up the pan halfway or 3/4. You're going to have such an airy and such a yummy. Another thing what this does too, by the way, it allows the protein strands in that have you have developed. Why do we why do we need we need I'm talking just from a scient scientific perspective. Why do we need we're developing the protein strands that are located inside the wheat and we're developing we're toughening them up so that they will be able to arrive and con rise and still remain it in the in its proper shape that we we we shaped it in. So, when you allow the dough to rest in the refrigerator for a long period of time, like a day, like I just mentioned, you're allowing those strands to rest. And when you allow those strands to rest, they won't tend to break apart so easily. You know, sometimes we make the braids and then it seems to rip and to tear. And that happens a lot because the strands have been overworked and they haven't been given a chance to rest. So by doing so we're allowing them to in due time slowly rise and giving it time to rest so that they will maintain better chance of them maintaining the shape in long term from the refrigerator. You can warm it down for 10 minutes the room temperature you know turn on your oven whatever and then yes shove it straight in the refri in the oven for about no more at that point it should not mean more than 20 minutes to to bake on on a high temperature. You want it on a high temperature. You don't want to do it low to because again you're drying it out. You're gonna have 20 once it's golden. I do I in and in in America I would do even 375 400. I would even do it. Yeah. High temp. High temp. If and if it doesn't bake around the sides when it's in the pan. I put parchment paper on my pan and I pick the once it gets its shape and it's a little bit more hard and it's brown on top. What I do is I lift it up from out of the pan. I put it on the regular sheet pan and I let these sides brown a little bit more and I right away take it out. It's nice. It's soft. It's crisp. Again, that's another thing you have to check your ovens. Don't blame it on the kala. Sometimes our ovens aren't aren't working properly. Why am I saying to wait until after the mitzvah the ideal performance of the mitzvah is on air of shabas. So you want to wait for you could do it on Monday afternoon too, but you wanna you really go for the bigang of the and you know the tikun of you want to wait till the idea of again you could look it up on all women generally 90% of the women when I do have thank you I have this hashem has given me this a lot of times to do these beautiful evenings of filled with andem a lot of kadusha So generally uh most women are very surprised by what I'm about to say to you. But again, this is bad. I've asked Rabam, uh over this over and over again because every time I do it and I get the really I didn't know that I go back to the r and I said, but they keep saying to me that it so but I've checked it and rechecked it and checked it again and understand the hafa itself is considered tuma. When you take the hafa away from the kala, it is not you're not allowed to enjoy even a crumb of that hafa because it doesn't belong to us. It belongs to the cohag andem of we're going to have the amen. But so long as we don't have the bessa mikdash and we don't have the Quran to give the hafa to we are not allowed to partake and enjoy it. Meaning, if I take the ha out and a crumb of it on my finger or whatever fell back into the dough, you have to ask a rav if you're allowed to actually still use that dough. It's it's some say it's you you should really actually consult the rav there's some that will tell you actually that you cannot use that that dough. So when you do the hafa, it's very important. In any case, if you do do use your with your your hands, make sure you wash your hands after the hafa and make sure it's clean of all of that dough. But in order to ensure it even more so do it either with a glove, do it with um a foil, do it with something else and still wash your hands if you can or at least check it. Make sure that you're you know doing making that effort. And then as you're pulling it away, also pull it away from the bowl so that nothing drips down on it. In terms of the the the size that a lot of women ask me, well, how much hasha? We spoke about this 150th. Really? That's that. What does that mean? It's generally in a regular size dough like 5 pounds or two plus two and a quarter kilo. It's the size of an egg, the size of a pingpong ball. That's all you need. So you don't need to take out the size of a kala in order for it to, you know, to for you to perform that mitzvah. There's no no um no inion about it. And last but not least, what do I do with the hafa? So many women have this question. What do I do with the hafa once I take it out? Do I put it in a double bag? Do I discard it? What do I do? Do I, you know, throw it to the cats? What do I do with it? How do you burn it? That's another question. Thank you. That's we're going to learn what we're supposed to do. Only only in the event that I have no other way of burning it am I allowed to essentially use the idea of taking the kala and double bagging it and discarding it with honor. That's not something you should do from you should not take it and put it in two bags and just discard it. You should do make all the efforts that you possibly can and burn it. How to burn it. So here in the go in in admata when you're sitting not in Erit Israel there is and please don't bite me and please don't get angry at me. I'm just a messenger here. Um there is what's called the spiritual entity an entity of Shadim demons demonic you know energies only is are they in existence outside of Erit Israel. in Erit Israel, you have other things. You've got Rouot, you've got all the other guys, but you don't have Shadim. And so that it's suggested that for those of us that reside here in for those of you who reside here in uh Queens soon is a because I'm still pumping and hoping and praying for you all to do aliyah like now, one minute before Mashia comes when there's still room on Lal. Okay, you can come to my house and stay over. I'll show you the ropes of Rat Bish. And I mean it. I'm not kidding. Come back to Erit Israel. Don't get me started. I really can. I should be working for Nephesh Ben. I shouldn't be doing should be Yeah, I had the bandana of the you know. Anyway, the idea is what you should do with the Huffra is you should put it on the stove top when it's double wrapped in foil so that none of the huffa is really getting on your railings of and the smoke that is generated wards off the shading in your home. You should not have hold on. You don't put it in the stove. You put it on your stove top. I that doesn't go for pe those of us who live in Israel. You can do something else. But for those who live in the the the gola for right now, I'm not giving you much time. Then you should put it on the stove top, let it smoke. It should it should res it should not um it shouldn't be edible. It should be burnt to the point where even a kev a dog would not eat it. That's how you know you've burnt it enough. And then you put it in a double bag and you discard it and throw it away. You turn the flame up. You take that ball of hasha sitting in a double uh foil. You put it on the open flame and you let the smoke and then you I I just literally turn it around like I'm doing a barbecue. I turn it around. Turn it around. Make sure all sides are burnt and once it's burnt, I let it cool down a little bit. I put it in two bags and I've performed my mitzvah. You can alternatively Oh, well, let me just finish. But alternatively, you could if you want and you want to forego that whole demon thing, you can go ahead and you could just also double wrap it. And again, this is something I've asked a number of RAM. You can double foil it. Put it on the bottom bottom of your oven with nothing else in the oven. Making sure nothing else is in the oven. Ensuring don't put it on a pan. Put it on the bottom of your oven on the floor itself of the oven and let it burn. until again it's totally burnt to the crisp. And the third option would be to have a barbecue and actually barbecue it over a flame also outside which is when I do kala events where there's large a lot I come home with garbage p you know with garbage can fulls of hafa and I'm not going to start you know baking them in my oven. So I actually open up my mongal I open up my barbecue and I just start laying them and then I just literally then I discard it. So that's if you're doing it in quantity, that's another option. So I've answered those questions. Yes. No. Well, if you're going to throw away the tin. Yeah. You don't want it to touch anything. And then when when you take it off the grid, you know, the stove top grid, you want to make sure that nothing burned through. And if it does, you have to scrape it off. You know, make sure that it doesn't uh That's why you wrap it off. That's why you wrap it up twice. Exactly. If you haven't discarded it properly, you haven't performed the mitzvah of appropriately. When did you actually make the uh the blessing the hra? Yeah. When you do you start saying the words when you're ready. So there's different minhagim. There isn't actually a real hala basis on it. I what I tend to do is I sort of prepare I pull from four why by the way anyone know why women p pick from four corners of the of the the dough to make the hafa because what did we say in the beginning? How is adamarishan created? from the four corners of the earth, right? Being mixed up with the water. That's why we do the four pull off from four corners of the the dough to remember that that's why we're doing this from that's a minhug. You don't have to do it for you. You've you've come out the if you just pull it. Yeah. You know, then there's also the it's a beautiful minhug to light a candle before put sodaka in to Hashem that we should do the with all our heart and uh most important to say the words I'm going to just I'll end with this and then we'll do the why is important to say my kids laugh whenever I say this everything I do once I say it in sparty accent once in Yiddish accent I just you know say it whatever comes to me why is it important so The swarm kadoshim teach a beautiful secret. It it's such a beautiful thing that we learn that the man that that the amuse ate in in the midbar had the taste of whatever it is. The more of a sadic that you were the more uh likely you were to taste that food that you desired and you kished for that you wanted. And so when you say the words, even when you're in the supermarket and you buy something and you have it in your mind that you're doing it, it's important to say the words. Why? Because when you say the words teach us, Hashem stands over that particular dish that you're making, he takes the man that he gave us in the midbar and he literally sprinkles it into the food. And that's how come your food and what you make when you say kesh actually tastes spectacular and tastes heavenly because you've just sprinkled man now inside your food and in every item that you've purchased you have that ability to elevate it to the point where it tastes a little bit like gan eden and so that's how come so important look at the matanote the gifts that hashem gives us only by using our mouth. All it takes is to say three words. That's it. Hashem says, "Look what you could do with your mouth. Look what you could create and you could do with your mouth." That is the beauty. That is the ramanus. That is the love that Hakadesh Bar has for us and and he gives it to us and he wants us to use it. He wants to give us the braha. Hashem wants nothing more than to give us on and to give us sim. It's a matter of us opening up our hands and saying tati give it to me ism this month it should turn into a month of sima that we should really feel the abba in embedded in this month I'm going to just I have to give you this one more insight even though this is a month of dean even though this is a month of difficulty I want to teach you that now we're we're living plan B but I want to share with you what plan A of this month should have in the plan A of this month really embedded in this month is a totally different energy. This is the month of total gula. How could it be the month of Dean? Because measure for measure like there's dean, there's also raim. That's the way this world works. As much dean there is in this month, that's how much of a gula there should have been also in this month. And I'm going to teach you how. The plan a of this month was that the Moraglin were going to go scout out Erit Israel. They were going to come back and come back with an amazing report on Tisha Bav. They were going to come back to Mosher Rabenu and they were going to tell Mosher Rabenu, "Let's get packing. We're all headed for Erit Israel." And everyone was starting to pack. plan A where everyone was going to pack up their camels and pack up their riches and tread on into Erit Israel. And on the 10th of A, they were going to start literally walking in start taking the steps forward to get into Erit Israel. And it was a fiveday journey from where they were camping to get into Erit Israel. And they were meant to land and step foot into Erit Israel. What day? to the happiest day of the year. Ta, right? One of the happiest days, the days of marriage, the day of love because a kadesh that day was going to build the beta mikdash on Mosherenu was destined to become Mashiach and then we would have had the ultimate unity and wedding ceremony between us and aeshb. But instead, we're living plan B right now. But said, "But involved in these days, the most difficult days of the year, you should know that there's a plan A hiding." And that plan A is the plan A of Gula. that asm we will see that and that is what G that's where amuna comes from from the from the hope from the yearning of and and belief and the trust in a kadesh that at the end of the day gola is going to turn into ga the ultimate good is going to reveal itself and msiah will come and all good will be revealed in its ultimate perfected state so remember even though we're seeing dine we have the ability to go back and go back to plan A and ask Akadesh Baru to please bring us back to plan A and please bring us the ga and please marry us again because we yearn for you. We yearn to be united once again with our abba. So let's go ahead and do the mitzvah of we're going to d forg. We're an a stubborn nation and we're going to say to Hashem, I'm not leaving Beth Gabriel without the ga. Right. Amen.