Cultural Response 1 - Challah Bread

[Alper Daron]

Challah is a special type of bread eaten by the Jewish people all around the world especially in Sabbath dinners. The ingredients in a challah bread are typically white flour, eggs, water and sugar. What makes this bread special is its unique rope-like shape. Traditionally, in a typical Sabbath dinner, two whole challah breads (one for the dinner, and one for the Sabbath day) are kept covered during the Sabbath prayer inscribed for wine. Once the routine Sabbath prayer is over, the cover is taken off and the prayer for Challah is said.