«In Christianity, baked goods associated with keys are commonly called 'Easter breads,'[13] and in Europe they are also known as 'Paschals,'[14] as the holiday of Easter in the East is known as 'Pascha' or 'Pascua.' This is most likely the reason Christians often call Easter breads baked with keys Paschals.[15] Before the Romans destroyed the Beit HaMikdash (the holy Temple) in Jerusalem, the focus of the Passover holiday for the Jewish people was the Korban Pessah (lit. Pessah sacrifice, also known as the Paschal Lamb[16]).»
Darkei Emori?
Or
Effective Segulah
http://www.mesora.org/shlissel.html
Best Regards,
RRW
3 comments:
"In Christianity, baked goods associated with keys are commonly called 'Easter breads,'"
Except they don't. This is fiction; there is no such Xian custom. The guy learned about bread with crosses on them and that sometimes they used a cross shaped key (or a stick, or anything else) to make the cross, and used it to feed Mesora.org's long-standing hostility to Chassidus and Qabbalah.
http://5tjt.com/schlissel-challah-an-analysis-by-rabbi-yair-hoffman does a better job than I could. I'll just add R' Shelomo Alfassa misquotes me too.
There absolutely have been and there still are such Christian customs! You can find recipes for the breads and pictures of them online and in books.
The above comment is untrue.
Just a clarification on my previous comment, the custom was to bake a key INSIDE the bread and the keys are cross shaoed. They ALSO bake cross shaped breads.
In any event the whole concept of Jewish magic tricks to either open the gates of prayer with key bread or to gain parnassah with such baked goods is problematic on its face regardless of any other religions.
Post a Comment