The Shabbat Table - June 18th - Special Challah session

thanks guys for joining and it's a pleasure to be here with vo of tonight to make kala um two things I want to point out before we start is first of all you can see my green screen in the background there's no green screen tonight this is the real deal this is what what it really is there's no faking it so I can just all appreciate the being genuine and authentic it's nice to keep the green screen aside for a little bit and secondly we now have 28 minutes to make our holo dough so I'm gonna prove to you that you can actually make your holiday in 28 minutes or less and 15 of those minutes you're actually not gonna be doing anything at all you're just gonna be waiting although not tonight because we're gonna be talking so um it's really not as hard if you've never made it before you'll see who here has made challah before you let me know if you can okay yeah I see someone has Zachary and was that and family I don't remember claw beautiful nice okay so you're gonna see how easy it is we're gonna get started here because like I said now we have less than 30 minutes but this is gonna be no problem so Oh Sammy you've made Kyla before also awesome okay so there's lots of different recipes out there you can find recipes online they're not all gonna be the same not all challah recipes are created equal um every time I decided to switch my husband actually wasn't so thrilled because he liked my Kyla and he said if it ain't broke don't fix it but I was interested to try a new recipe and I really thought my Halle was the best Halle until one day my precious daughter came home from kindergarten and they I think was in Hollow was in the parsha that week and so she brought home a stylish you made from her class a little tiny challah and we tried it at the shop I remember so clearly we're on my in-laws house for Friday night dinner and here we cut open get to Scala and she's so excited and usually masalas that kids bring home from school or camp they're not that delicious this one was amazing and I was I couldn't believe it I took as I can fight like this is better than my challah so sure enough I called her teacher who's a friend of ours in the neighborhood and got her recipe and that's my new collar recipe and that's the recipe I spread um so you know it's coming from definitely not my own okay so we are gonna get started now the first thing you need you guys all got your ingredient list so conveniently I have everything laid out with me here on the table I'm just gonna lower the screen a little bit okay so the first thing we need is sugar the sugar you could also use honey if you want I've done that before I've substituted brown sugar sometimes when I run out of white sugar but here I have white sugar we need two to three cups which sounds like a lot but you'll see that there's so much flour that goes into it it's really not as much as it seems and you could do anywhere in the two to three cup range I usually do three cups but I just don't fill them up all the way my husband likes when I use the white sugar thanks sweetie it's kind of insane YUM okay I have the sugar the next ingredient is the yeast so here I have my big bag of yeast I just got from Restaurant Depot when there was a huge yeast shortage but often these comes in little packets or it could come in a jar so if you have the packets you're gonna need four packets otherwise it's three tablespoons I just measured mine out beforehand because I was nervous I'm getting towards the end of the pack so I'm gonna throw in the bowl so spice around three cups of sugar 3 tablespoons of yeast okay very simple next what we're gonna do is we're gonna pour in some warm water not hot because that would kill the yeast and that cold because then it wouldn't rise but warm water and it's it's looking good in there it looks like messy and yeasty okay now I'm gonna do one second oh gotta unlock it first Siri can you set a time red for 15 minutes okay isn't it great when someone talks to their phone or their watch when you're having a conversation okay we have our timer going what I'm gonna do is I'm actually going to cover the yeast now with saran wrap you can use foil you can use a towel I choose saran wrap today and I'm just going to falling in no big deal oh it's nice and warm from the water so just gonna cover it up and I actually want to share some things with you and then hopefully we have time we'll play a quick little game okay so nothing is coincidence and I actually just got off the phone with a teacher of mine who called me about something else and actually I'm in the business not business was not a business but I'm in the business of matchmaking so we're trying to make a match you know someone I know someone anyways she called me for that and I told her I was about to do the stylobate and I just prepared something to talk about while the yeast is rising because it takes 15 minutes okay this is the 15 minutes where you're not actually making mahalo conveniently unless you're still doing what we just did which is fine so anyways she told me a really neat little bit on East okay so we put yeast in the kala we're making a lot of kala right 5 pounds of flour this is 5 pounds of flour a whole bag and we're gonna use more also we're gonna use another 1 to 3 cups depending on your dough it's always a little different okay so there's a lot of flour but how much yeast do we need to make the challah rise we just used three tablespoons but do we really need three tablespoons could we let it rise with 1 tablespoon what do you think would it still rise yes okay thank you yeah I would rise maybe not as much for the rice what it rise with a teaspoon maybe maybe a 1 teaspoon to a tablespoon is like somewhere in this like critical mass of how much yeast you need to make this whole bag of flour and all these other ingredients rise okay you need this little bit so she compared that but that is our role in the world that we as juice were like the yeast okay we're here and we have to we there no it doesn't need to be a lot of us but a critical mass and the key with yeast and I was looking at my East and it's a time like I said I don't usually buy so I couldn't find it anywhere on here but yeast most yeast when you buy it in the store is active yeast right it's active dry yeast um and that's the key is that the yeast is active and you put a little bit of yeast in this big bowl with all these other ingredients and it helps everything else to rise so too with us Jews there's not a ton of us but we need a critical mass but the key is that we need to be active and by us being active we're helping and allowing the whole world to rise up with us and it's so cool cuz I asked her about that more and it's just such a cool idea because if you think about it when you make makalah yes there's yeast in McCulloch I mean used is so important because it makes it rise and we even stopped for 15 minutes in the middle of challah baking so let it do its thing but it's not like yeast bread we don't call it you spread it's bread it's challah so the yeast is that critical mass it's making the big difference in the greater good it's not serving itself right if it was just there to serve itself and make itself look good and important it would be called yeast bread but it's not it's called Carla and um that's really what we do by being active and by singing together is a critical mass we can make a huge impact in the world in the greater world so I thought that was a really awesome idea and I know Tamar is to you about Halle and a little bit and I'm sure it's gonna be wonderful so thanks sweetie laughing and I love your participation so anyways um I didn't want to talk too much about kala itself so singing what else can I talk about so something interesting that when we eat bread bread is really unique and when we eat bread we're right before we eat it we wash our hands and we say a blessing I'm over washing our hands and then we say a blessing over the bread when we eat it and then afterwards when we're all done with our meal and we're satisfied there's another longer blessing that we stay on it also okay so I want to just talk about let's see how our timer is doing sorry my Apple watch is new so I think if I just go to the timer button hmm I don't know let's see it's it you can ask a what time it is - Siri how much time is left on the timer thanks Siri how much time is left on the timer okay we have nine minutes left thank you okay it's great learn something new every day okay so in benching right when we bench after the meal this is a venture that we use in our house that we like a lot because it has the Hebrew and it has the English finds it right so you can see it and for all the songs also so if you've ever been to a shot of Steel and they're singing songs and you don't know what it means what they're singing it's not translated in all adventures but in this art scroll into a linear venture it is okay but anyways there's one line in benching in the very beginning right so we say sorry Bertha Tasha I'm Alec oenomaus autumn has done and said Oldham Club it's about the same as I said of Rafah me okay and now here's a line I'm talking about and I'm gonna hold it up so you could see it right here whoo where is it whoo no same last time the whole bus our key lime crust oh okay so that's what we're gonna talk about that God gives bread to all living things with compassion and I never knew this before so I'm so happy I got to prepare this I was looking in this awesome book I have called power benching and it's all about the benching that we say and what's the meaning behind it so apparently Moshe right Moshe the Prophet the leader of his Jewish people wrote this blessing of benching when the Jews were in the desert and it was right after the miracle of the man so what's the miracle of them on 3rd 3 million Jews traveling in the desert how are we gonna eat so miraculously God sends down from heaven every morning a portion of Manav bread perfectly portioned out for every person for every family um and it was such a miracle that there's 3 million Jews traveling on the desert and we don't have to plan we don't have to harvest or mail or flower I don't know whatever else goes into harvesting and getting wheat and then make the bride Merri like making the hollows enough I can't imagine having to also prepare the wheat and plant the wheat but it just it comes down to us so this this line in benching is reminding us that Hashem that God gives us this this bread with such great kindness and there's a giving a little bit deeper apparently there's three things that God entrusts there's lots of duties got entrust to the Angels to take care of okay but there's three things that he keeps for himself that God wants to take care of himself one event is giving her Nessa giving livelihood to people that we should have what we need okay and why is this so it says that if God let the Angels take care of giving everyone their portion of bread and so forth they would give people what we deserve right but guys Keely along costo in his great kindness he gives us more than what we deserve he gives us not based on what we've done wrong or right either he just gives it to us with his kindness his outpouring of kindness because He loves us so much and I just thought that was such a beautiful idea and you know we do this benching it right Shabbos meals it's like benching comes and not everyone knows always what's going on or benching and it's just so nice I think to just continue to keep learning more of a meaning of what we're saying all the time okay let's say Syria where we at Siri how much time do we have left five minutes okay perfect so I'm going to say one more thing and then we're gonna play a little game and we're gonna finish on time so God willing okay so gardening is something have you noticed everyone's getting into gardening lately I've noticed it for sure and there's a lot of peer pressure and it's actually been a secret not-so-secret dream of mine to garden my grandfather had an amazing garden I've always wanted to but thank God we have six little ones at home and my husband's like sweetie you have enough on your plate you don't need to garden also but this year has been amazing that I've really been able to get into gardening more than ever before and what I love about it is that I can work so hard I can buy the seeds or the plants and the soil and schlep it all and plant it and take care of every morning I go out to the front and I water the garden in the front and I go out in the back and I water the plants in the back and I see them growing and I love it but sometimes like yesterday my lavender plant was not having such a good day and the past beauties before that my basil plant was not having today and I don't even know if my jalapeno peppers are gonna make it but what's so cool is that with gardening it's so clear that I just put in my effort I do whatever I think I'm supposed to do I put in my proper proper effort into it and I know the rest is in God's hands like it's so clear everything else let's say I go to make dinner I go to make hallow two weeks ago okay two weeks ago this is me being vulnerable two weeks ago I made a lot of challah and we gave it out to the participants here in Denver once in a while it happens that I let the hollow rise too long in this stage which is why we're gonna start the next stage soon maybe we won't get to do a game that'll have to be for another time but I let it rise too long and what happened I gave out all these beautiful colors and then we tasted our own Hallows and it tasted like beer they weren't sweet at all because I let it rise too long it was so fresh to me know what you should always judge favorably right but the point is that I put in my effort to make it the best I could sometimes it's just not going to turn out good and I could be really mad at myself and be like I didn't get it right I'm not successful I'm not doing it right and I can be really upset or I could start blaming oh you kept me so busy with such-and-such making a mess that I wasn't able to get back to the table right I could do all of that but when I garden it reminds me that all I can do is put in my effort and the way it turns out is not up to me and it's really such a blessing and I'm so grateful for that constant reminder okay so now we're going to pretty so we're we're good enough okay so I'm gonna see what the saran wrappers reuse it sailing and next we need four more ingredients okay so this is what we're gonna do we are going to and we're gonna end on time okay let's assume Lee neder we got this guy's okay so we have three eggs you put an egg into a plastic or glass cups you go check it and make sure there's no blood in it it did happen a couple weeks ago I did a challah bake on Facebook live and what do you know it there was blood in one of my eggs and it doesn't happen very often at all these days especially when you use white eggs brown eggs you're gonna get about 50% of them fun facts are gonna be bloody I could tell you from experience okay so three eggs check next we're going to put in and we're gonna do 1/2 a cup here we're gonna do oh I put it down let me grab sorry about that the oil needed slams on counter but not onto the table okay a half a cup of whoops of oil okay this is how I cook you just do your best everything else is in God's hands and salt here's our salt we're gonna do so using regular salt you want to use two tablespoons if you're using kosher salt according to the recipe use three tablespoons okay pour in the salt and then what I like to do is just start mixing in the truth is I usually do this in a look at this till ten minutes they're doing awesome okay I usually a few years ago probably about six years into marriage I invested in a mixer which was amazing cookies throwing ingredients and it does all the hard work for you for years I just did it by hands and bless his heart my husband likes homemade challah and now the kids they like homemade Kyle I can't get away with store-bought challah in the house giving thumbs up it just it doesn't fly really I'm the only one who likes it I love store-bought kala it's delicious so what I grew up with but not in my house so we make homemade kala but so you could see I'm stirring it and it's it's not really working so much to use a spoon anymore because it's so thick so now my rings now's when we just oh there's a timer going off thanks Siri okay you're just digging okay and you just smoosh it all around now this stage what's gonna happen is once you pour in the whole bag of flour you're gonna mix it and then once it's all mixed you're gonna notice that it's still a little bit sticky okay I'm it sticky what you do is you pour in more flour maximum maximum I'd say three cups more but it could be less than that so don't pour it in all at once add some mix it up and add some more if it's still sticky but you don't want it totally unsticky either it's yummy if you keep it not too flowery so it shouldn't be this sticky I good it's gonna be this sticky but it should be a little sticky stuff it won't be too flowery okay yeah this is definitely too sticky so it's nice when you have a helper around but we're just gonna pour it in okay just like that got some more flour and you mix it around in you could just feel free to stand up it's easier standing and while the class is going on you could just keep needing it for a little bit once you feel like it's all mixed together really good and there's no chunks and there's no big pieces of flour and just cover it up and after the class doubling we're gonna come back together and we're gonna do grading tile oh it's just gonna be quick they'll be probably let's say 15 minutes max after the class we will bring the silo I'll show you some fun tricks I like to do and we'll do an egg wash and stick it in the oven it'll make your whole house your whole apartment wherever you are maybe the whole neighborhood even smell delicious so thank you guys so much look at that we even ended early see honey so they just signed off okay well um it's gonna be delicious Kyle it's just keep mixing it thanks guys so much and I will see you again afterwards any questions yes we're gonna afterwards thank you for asking afterwards before we do the breathing we are gonna do something really special so even if you don't join in you should know when you make this much flour into challah man there's a special blessing that you say and I'm sure tomorrow um touch upon it if not tell you a lot more about it um but it's a really special thing to be able to do and there's a lot of meaning behind it so that's gonna be the first thing we do you'll get to actually do in practice what you learned about tonight which is cool this is hands-on learning at its best don't you think um this is Judaism is very experiential all these trends we've been doing this for years guys it's really awesome and this is what it's all about so thank you so much and we are five minutes early any more questions okay if I'm even comes up with your dough and you need how I'm feel free to just reach out and ask happy to help I think everyone's hands are dirty so they can't ask any questions and get them sauce off from you yes could be yeah you just get it all off and then you'll go wash your hands you can ask away you see but it's not all mixed well so I'm not gonna add more flour yet just keep moving away you don't have gardening there's so much peer pressure it's a garden now we're creating peer pressure to meet Carla everyone's doing it you're just come on McCall everyone's gonna come on like I should make Sala - right it's actually learning about that it really makes a difference like all the political science we're not getting into politics but all the different politicians they put their signs out in Colorado we have voting and it is really peer pressure I like it with who are there people putting out and voting for I'm so careful will you surround yourself with you can't see our whole comment because my hands are sticky okay let's see we're gonna do it oh it's not touchscreen let's see okay I'm glad you learned something I think we should make a big shout out to michelle has also been showing us her her doing the tricks yeah Michelle you're so brave I love it thank you it's nice that not be making it alone like wearing it together working hard you put in their blood sweat and tears right no blood we don't do that not kosher so I haven't made I made fall in years but I'm making mine gluten-free so I'm gonna see how it turns out I'm not really sure but I think this is very helpful I don't think I've ever made holo before so if I have it was like you said in preschool okay awesome so you did the same recipe you're just using gluten-free flour yep same recipe just using a one-for-one gluten-free flour instead of regular flour that's awesome I don't love to hear hands out I'm definitely you know that would be so cool whenever we have gluten-free guests and I actually go ahead and make gluten-free Kalla it's a whole different recipe and it has all these ingredients thanks to go by to be able to make it like this yeah I'll definitely let you know the the flour I buy is out of North Dakota and it's a one for one substitution and ever anything else I've ever baked so we'll see if it works awesome thank you thanks Michelle and our dough here you see it's almost ready so it really was you can make holida in less than thirty minutes and fifteen of those minutes you'll just be sitting and waiting and it works so simple just gotta do it so thanks guys alright so thank you everyone for joining us like to welcome you to this week's Shabbat table I am hello captain Steen from Columbus Ohio with the Columbus community coles young professional outreach department it's so nice to be back over here as we see so many people all around the country and for this week's spotlight we would like to turn it over to Mimi primo from Vegas please give your attention to Mimi are you there can you unmute oh hi everyone good evening my name is me and crémeux I live in Henderson which is right next to Las Vegas I am originally from California and Las Vegas Jewish experience which is headed by rabbis Cutler and Israeli out here has been a really big part of my life I heard about this Shabbat table from them and it's a really great opportunity coming here every Thursday night to meet with meet and greet and learn with rabbis and young professionals from all over the world well country world maybe so I want to thank you I wanted to speak a little bit about the parsha for this week something that really touches my heart is the presence of challah we learned about the fact that you should separate separate from the challah which is basically a gift back to Hashem we have bread because of Hashem and all that Hashem asked is that we give a little bit of the bread that we he gave us back to him which is excellent you know I was a little scared about doing that when I was younger I watched my Bubbe and my mom make separated challah and I said I am going to mess this up I will never ever do it but then I thought you know it's Hashem s so little he asks for just a little bit and I should not be so scared in give that little bit back and then I never looked back from separating caller from now from then and alakina challah as well as you fulfilling a mitzvah in doing so so I hope these words inspired you have a great Shabbos thank you thank you so much me we appreciate that and make sure to send my best to Rabbi cutler and thank you for sharing that with us so tonight we have an incredible speaker this is tomorrow Livingston from Rage Baltimore we're here I have heard that through the grapevine we got a loaded one tonight be lots of great stuff so without any further ado everyone please give your undivided attention to mrs. Tamar Livingston thank you so much for having me so nice to be here with all of you so I was asked to speak about makalah which is a really fun topic to speak about because I think that when you just say the word challah you start salivating right you can taste it you can smell it you smell that heavenly scent that seems to like stay in your house even for more than a day after you bake it it's delicious it just lingers you know whether you like it more Ron gooey on the inside or whether you like it more baked on fluffy whether you like it more dense and rich or whether you prefer a water challah I don't know anyone who doesn't love challah right it ranks right up there just like matzo ball soup you know in our family we sometimes sprinkle cinnamon and sugar on top sometimes we sprinkle it with chocolate chips sometimes we use the Trader Joe's everything but the bagel spice no matter what we put on it it is always delicious right and then don't even get me started about French toast right we have french toast which is so young but challah french toast is like a whole different level right so what's the secret what is it that makes challah so much better than bread it's like in the league of its own so I hope you'll join me on the journey to uncovering what makes challah so delicious and why it's such an integral part of Shabbos impact it's so integral that we even have two lobes of challah at each meal so I know that many of you on the line tonight are young professionals and and even older than that so many of you are working right how many of you get vacation days at your jobs you could feel free to chime in and the chat if you'd like and if you get vacation days at work okay some of you get vacation days that's great what happens if you need some more time off oh here's someone think they don't get enough vacation four hours over two weeks yeah that's not a lot I totally get that what happens if you need more time off after you used your vacation days so let's say you have 10 vacation days and you've used all ten of them but you know you have a siblings wedding or you know your best friends getting married something that you really can't miss what happens what do you do right you have this big dilemma doing this out on work right do I risk like not getting paid because I have to go to this wedding or do I say okay I can't make it to this wedding because I really like it can't afford to take the time off I literally won't get paid I just can't afford to go to the wedding and take time off of work right sometimes we have those dilemmas and you know our ancestors could relate to this as well because you see the workweek was invented thousands of years ago when we were traveling in the desert after we were freed from slavery you know are hundreds long year slavery in Egypt Hashem took us on a journey through the desert in order to help us shake the slave mentality he didn't just take us out of slavery and then take us straight away into the Promised Land but instead he took us through a process and a journey through a process and a journey in the desert where he was going to like nurse us back to health so to speak right he was gonna help us shake that slave mentality that we know is really hard to shake you know it's not just about becoming physically free but it's about becoming mentally and emotionally free as well so Hashem gave us this time in the desert to help us through this process to help us come about and he did different things with us so that we could really become free and tap into our sense of self and really experience liberation again so you know today we think we have it made because we have ubereats and GrubHub but we could just get food delivered whenever we want I'm sure many of us are doing that you know especially now during corona when were home we're ordering food deliveries and we just have it so convenient but actually the Jews in the desert had it way better one of the kindnesses that Hashem did for them when he when we were in the desert is that he sent us our food from heaven every single day so imagine literally having food that was heaven-sent you didn't need to order it you didn't need to pay for it it just came down you walked outside and it was there and this was of course the Mun or the manna in English and it was this was how it was every single day we went outside and the Mun was there it just came down from the skies it was unbelievable but the man had some rules along with it one of the rules with the Mun was that every day we had to go out to the field to collect and we could only collect what we needed for that particular day right so we couldn't hoard any and then try to take it easy the next day we couldn't pretend we were in a pandemic and stock up on toilet paper you know and buy 500 rolls more than we really need we couldn't try to overwork or put in more hours one day you know thinking that we'll get paid overtime and then we'll be able to sleep in the next day there was none of that we had to show up to work each and every day and we also earned a salary each and every day every day we went out to the field and every day our food was there and we had to collect it and take it home in fact there was even a miracle that happened that if we tried to outsmart the system and take home more food than we needed and leave it over for the next day you know if we tried to store it in the fridge or put it in the freezer or hide it in the cabinets in our pantry it actually became infested with worms and was totally inedible the next day so there was no such thing as stockpiling it just didn't work it didn't pay off another rule that had to do with the man was that every Shabbat was a forced vacation they were told that on Shabbat there would be no Mun there would be nothing in the field to collect it couldn't go out there and gather their food they could not go to work so before you get excited thinking about how fun it would be you know to be told not to show up at work think about how you would feel if your boss told you that one day a week you were not allowed to come to work you just were not allowed in right some of us are experiencing that now and the pandemic that we have reduced hours we've been furloughed right many people are experiencing that shortage and it it doesn't feel good right we might have thought that it feels so good to have a vacation but a forced vacation actually doesn't feel that nice in addition many of us are feeling really anxious with this forced vacation great we're anxious about our salary how are we gonna have enough money how are we gonna pay our bills how are we gonna be able to take care about like all of our expenses what am I gonna do about my student loans I was counting on this income care of that it's really stressful to have a horse vacation it doesn't feel all that good now to make matters worse remember that when our ancestors were told to take this forest vacation in the desert they were coming off of over 200 years of slavery they were totally immersed in slave mentality so they had just experienced so many years of abuse and torture as slaves how in the world were they supposed to feel about their boss you know their new master who just told them not to come to work how are they supposed to what what do you think they fought you know here they are they're probably reliving of their trauma that oh my gosh it's happening again we're either getting fired or we're gonna be beaten for not showing up at work we're gonna be tricked but how are we being told not to come out and collect our food is he trying to starve us is he trying to torture us in a worse way than we were tortured in Egypt what's going on right how how could they have been reassured that they would get a salary for not showing up at work how are they were supposed how are they supposed to relate to this forced vacation without being anxious right what would help you feel relaxed and reassured with a forced vacation what would make you feel good if your boss told you don't show up at work tomorrow what would you do to manage that panic and that anxiety and remember Hashem was also trying to purposely help us break the slave mentality so he had to really work hard to give us the message that we weren't slaves anymore so what he decided to do was something really really genius and really really kind and loving he decided to front the Jews the money imagine if your boss said to you you know what don't show up at work tomorrow but you'll still get paid how would you feel then would you feel relaxed maybe yes maybe no right it sort of depends on who your boss was if it was the boss that you knew and you had a relationship with for a long time you might feel like okay he said he's gonna pay me tomorrow I trust him I know he will but if it was an employer and this was a new job you might not really have that confidence that he's really gonna pay you for the time off like he's telling you right you don't have that relationship with him you don't have that level of trust and knowledge that he really as a man is gonna keep his word so to the Jews they didn't really have that level of trust in Hashem yet there were slaves in Egypt for so long they didn't really know how to trust and had a think that life could really be better than what they had experienced for the past you know many years in slavery so Hashem not only told them that they were gonna get paid for their forest vacation he decided to front them the money he gave them a direct deposit in their bank account before the vacation doesn't that sound nice so what that meant was that on every Friday Hashem said two portions of the month so that they could collect a portion for Friday and a portion for Shabbat that way on Friday they already had the reassurance and it could sleep easy that their salary was already there they already had enough money in the bank so that they didn't have to work in the field on Shabbat so I know you guys are learning a whole series of Shabbat have you learned about kaduche yet yeah I'm seeing some nods okay great so we actually see this referenced in the key Jewish I'm gonna read for you the verse that Hebrew and now translated into English in Exodus it says ashishot umhum asan Hashem Hashem I am the authority on that call assure bomb Vienna biome ha ve alkane Vera Hashem at the Omaha Shabbat by cachet that might sound familiar to some of you after learning the kaduche in English it means that in six days Hashem made the heavens and the earth and the Seas and all that's in them and he rested on the seventh day therefore Hashem blessed the Sabbath day and he sanctified it so in Hebrew its value VAR if Hashem blessed the Sabbath day but you can't show you and he sanctified it so Jewish wisdom teaches us that what is the blessing of the Shabbat day what does it mean that has shown blessed the Shabbat day so Jewish wisdom explains that the blessed of Shabbat is that he brought this double portion of the man on Friday he sent a double salary on Friday so that the Jews would not have to work on Shabbat that sounds nice but it's also really confusing if you think about it because if the double portion was given on Friday why does that make Shabbat blessed if anything it sounds like Friday is a blessed day it's the day we got paid twice what does this have to do with blessing Shabbat so the Jewish wisdom explains that Hashem could have just given them this forced vacation and he could have promised that he would pay them but the fact that he gave them the salary on Friday that he let them go to sleep easy with this reassurance to wake up on Saturday morning knowing that they didn't have to go to work because they already got paid that's the blessing of Shabbat the blessing of Shabbat is the love and the reassurance that is hand delivered in the Mun on Friday the blessing of Shabbat is the reassurance that we don't need to work on Shabbat that we're not gonna lack anything by keeping Shabbat but we can take off every single week from our jobs and we won't be missing anything that our fridge will still be full and our pantry will still be full and our bank account will still have money and we'll still have our self-worth and we'll still have our identities even when we take time off from going to work so because we have this blessing of receiving this double portion on Friday so that our Shabbat could be relaxed and could be we can spend Shabbat just focusing on being instead of doing this is the blessing of Shabbat and this is why we have to college at every Shabbat meal in honor of the two portions of maan that we were given the two portions of sustenance that felt to keep us nurtured and so this blessing of reassurance and love is literally kneaded into all of our loaves of challah and I think perhaps that's why our phallus tastes so so sublime so much better than any loaf of bread you could find anywhere else because kneaded into it is the love that is sent directly from God reassuring us that it's okay we can take it easy on Shabbat we can learn to rest we can stop the chase of going to work all the time and pursuing our careers and pursuing the next thing and the next thing and the next thing we can take the time off and enjoy the beauty and the deliciousness of the sustenance and the knowledge that a Shem is always taking care of us so perhaps we could spend a little bit of time I think you guys are maybe going into breakout rooms or having some discussion over the next portion perhaps we could spend some time reflecting on our lives and thinking about you know how many hours a day do we work at our jobs how many hours a day do we spend checking our phone whether it's for emails or social media or even making phone calls how many times a day do we spend talking how much time a day do we spend watching Netflix or playing video games how much time a day how much time a day do we spend moving just in motion and then asking ourselves why are we spending so much time doing all of those things you know many of those things are great and healthy but just thinking for ourselves about why getting deeper with ourselves and so the reason that we're doing all of those things and then I'd love if you could ask yourself how many minutes a day are you silent how many minutes a day are you actually still how many minutes a day are you calm and think about why if that number is high why is it high the numbers low why is it low the numbers non-existent why does it not exist and then take a look and think about if we're proud of all the things we're spending our time doing have we ever even thought about that before have we even ever asked ourselves if we're proud of all the things we spend our time doing do we ever get frustrated that we're so busy I think we can use this opportunity to really reflect on the busyness in our lives all the work that we do during the six days and trying to carve out space for how for maybe some calmness maybe for some time where we don't need to work and we can relax in the reassurance that we have from God that he sends us every week knowing that we're gonna be okay even if we take some time off you know brené Brown who I love says so beautifully that exhaustion is not a status symbol and productivity does not equal self-worth and I think this is so true in our day and age where we really need to remind ourselves that we don't need to run ourselves ragged and to be exhausted in order to feel that we're worthy that taking a day off taking some really necessary time for rejuvenation and rest does not make us less than if anything it enhances us psychiatric research really proves that rest and rejuvenation are essential to our health just like nutrition and exercise right it helps foster joy it enhances our creativity it shapes our brain in a different way so we're blessed as Jews that were really given the opportunity to practice and to cultivate calmness every single week it's built into the fabric of our lives and I think and I hope that you'll find that when you start practicing calmness you realize how contagious it is and that it's something that we just need to keep plugging into on a regular basis we need to spend the time during the week working and we need to spend the time on shabbat resting and practicing calmness and rest and really cultivating that different perspective that we get when we stop doing and we just get to be so this is the blessing that's wrapped up into our delicious hollow loaves so I hope that as you guys need your Hollis shortly you'll think about these messages and try to remind yourself as you're kneading your dough what Hashem needed into the original dough that he sent down when he sent them on all of that love and reassurance that it's okay to take a break and you'll need that into your own kala so that you could tap into it in your life as well we are now going to consider all those who are doing the follow bake we will have that continuing mrs. Sarah wolf all the way from Denver Colorado I believe we'll be continuing the holiday park and if you're not during this holiday park hopefully tomorrow night you'll join me with the challah consumption part at least in any event mrs. wolf are you there you like to take it away awesome it's good to making Kahlo with you guys tonight so earlier we made the dough we made the dough in 30 minutes so when I make kala it's really hard to do without my kids because they love making challah so this wasn't the plan but sometimes we just have to be flexible right okay so the first thing is we in a lot of called--oh sweet use actually a little bit more solid oh then you actually there's a special thing that you do and it could be that you guys just talked all about it you know your hands you talk about the blessing we make over the challah I don't see any that's a night okay okay so there's a really special thing that we do is we say a blessing over challah so why do we say a blessing there's a common misconception the kosher for example right is the rabbi blesses the food and it's not true and that's not what we do with the challah what we do is we're knowledge and even though it's relatively simple to make the dough it takes less than 30 minutes effort goes into it and you have to go to the store or do pick up I forget the ingredients and you take off yeah we're going to college soon you take off a piece of the dough to acknowledge just like gardening we talked about earlier even though I work so hard and put so much into this I'm acknowledging that everything doesn't come from me and my own strength and power it comes from God right just like gardening you could do all the right things you could water it put in the seeds get fresh soil sometimes it just doesn't work does anyone know that from experience I do it's such a good reminder that at the end of the day he's in charge and our success is not based on him so if your pilot doesn't come out perfect also you should just know he's in charge you just try and try again and it might be better next time okay but Michele you're telling me awesome and I'm so excited to hear about it okay so I have a dog here and what we're gonna do before we start breeding in it so we have one step we're gonna do lucky my kids come home every kid that goes to preschool here in Denver um makes this beautiful hala blessing card for me that I use this you have a nice poem on the back so there's a special blessing that we say that's acknowledging that it all comes from God and we take a piece out as if we're like giving back right because if you work so hard on something then like you want the whole thing for yourself and there's so much so much satisfaction so by taking a piece out I'm saying it's like managing it's really from okay you took a piece okay so what I'm gonna do actually goes a little bit sticky so I'm just going to take a piece of my plastic wrap and I'm gonna just lift it off like that and okay so um okay so one more thing say the blessing I'm gonna tell you what the blessing is but also so it's a really special time to ask people you love for anyone whether it's health find a spouse to have success I make the lively that we should all have tremendous blessing in our lives so I'm gonna have in mind some people that I want to have in mind and pray for and you should similarly have it mimes whoever you would like to have in mind and I'm gonna say this blessing and it would be really meaningful to me if when I say the blessing afterwards everyone could answer on the enum feel free to unmute yourself to do so I think that would be a really cool powerful just to show how we're all in this together okay so ready I'm going to do this and Michelle feel free back do this with me M&S the blessing and then once you're here sometime and then I'm going to take a piece of cloud but okay so after I say the blessing I wanna hear big on me okay ready nice yeah bah bah bah I don't know I love he knew melech ha-olam asher kid shine up an explosive receive our new and I was just gonna breathe how where's yours I'm gonna give you a holler okay so now that we did that we can take it apart okay so I'm gonna just show you some tips look at what this palette so we have the Apollo depending on how much my in-laws we're gonna eat a bunch maybe put some in the freezer it's a tiny bit sticky but it's okay if it's a little bit sticky Michelle your dough is looking awesome that is so cool okay so there's different ways to breed and there's different ways I'm just going to show you my favorite way simply because it comes out really nice it beats evenly [Music] okay so just take a little bit of house I don't want to make it too flowery I take a little bit of flour okay and I just roll it quickly to show you into four I'm going to teach you a for Brady hey nothing just Ricky simple you could do it on your own it's just a nice little upgrade from the three threes also garden totally totally practical just got my hair okay okay so here's so I'm going to show you okay so everyone does it differently it doesn't have to be super smooth they're perfect it could be some people make a spinner in sector so make them to say no and okay so I have them make four now the first four braids what you do is it's a practice with my hair I love it okay so close okay way to be resourceful okay you have four so you do under over under over or maybe over under let's see yeah over I take the first one I always start from the same side I go over number two I pick number three under and then I go across and over number four okay then I start from the same side and I do it again over this is the new number two picked up the number three and just continue you have a cobbler okay so I'm just gonna tell you also um my recipe [Music] okay so um the recipe for egg wash that I do okay um in a plastic cup I do one egg and I add a little bit of water a squirt of honey and a sprinkle of cinnamon okay most people just do add your egg and water but I like to add those other ingredients it adds a little extra touch of yumminess and um you just spread it over the challah I put it on parchment paper I'm Tam stick it in the oven for I'm 350 for four depending on the size of the loaf this one might be like 40 minutes if you made small ones it could be 2025 minutes it's not gonna turn super dark brown like store-bought challah what you're gonna do and it's in the oven is no it's not pink either you flip it over on the bottom when you tap on the bottom okay so that's how you do the over-under over-under you always start from the side and that's the only time where you share the love and it's been so fun doing this with you thank you so much for joining