Challah Bake Quiz Including the answers

Poll Multiple choice Perfect ice-breaker for your invitees Perfect to ask during the dough rising

What do you brush the challah with to When do we say the blessing over the make it brown (egg yolk, coffee, silan, challah? etc)? 1. Always Full egg, egg yolk, egg yolk with coffee, egg yolk 2.When we are 10 women with silan… 3.For Ashkenazi, when we use more than 2.27kg and Sephardic more than 1.56kg What are you favourite challah toppings? 4.For Ashkenazi, when we use more than 1.5kg and Sephardic more than 2.5kg Poppy seeds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds...

Open questions (General) On which occasion do we make the Perfect ice-breaker for your guests separation and blessing of the challah ?

What is your favourite challah baking 1. For challot for Shabbat and chagim hack? 2. When someone is sick 3.For Ashkenazi, when we use more than 2.27kg and Sepharadic more than 1.56kg Do you add non-conventional 4.All of the above. Any time we make challah ingredients to your challah? (or other dough), we usually do it lichvod Shabbat. When we make Hafrashat Challah, Open questions (Halacha) it’s a special time to pray, so it is recommended to do so before any important moment

What is challah? And why do we call the Shabbat bread challah?

Challah is a piece of dough separated when we bake The mitzvah of challah is one of the bread. It used to be given as a gift to the Kohanim. three main mitzvot for women. Now it is burnt or wrapped up and thrown away. We What are the other two? call the Shabbat bread ‘challah’ in honour of this mitzvah, since we often take the opportunity to bake 1. Mikveh and Shabbat candle-lighting special bread for Shabbat to also do this mitzvah. 2.Tzniut and Hadlakat Nerots 3.Tehillim and mikveh What if I forgot to separate the challah? 4.Mikveh and tzniut

Challah can be separated from the baked bread if you forget to separate it from the dough. It can’t be separated on Shabbat. If you are outside of eretz Which statement is correct? Yisrael, you can set aside part of the bread to separate 1.We need 10 women to be together to say the challah from it after Shabbat, and use the rest. If you blessing of the Challah . are inside eretz Yisrael, you won’t be able to use that bread until after Shabbat, when you separate the 2.While the challah is in the oven, you are not challah. allowed to say the blessing. 3.Men can also say the separation of the At which stage do we make the challah blessing. separation of the challah?

For a firm dough – do so after it is kneaded but before With which flour can we perform this it is baked. For a batter that can be poured – like cake mitzvah? batter – do so after it is baked. 1.Wheat, rye, oats, spelt and barley At which stage do we make the blessing 2.Wheat, rice flour, corn flour and barley over the challah? 3.Wheat, spelt, corn flour and oats Separating challah is a mitzvah from the Torah that 4.Rice flour, corn flour and spelt reminds us that what we have is not ours alone – it is all a gift from Hashem and we use it to serve Him.