matzah


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Synonyms for matzah

brittle flat bread eaten at Passover

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All they ate was matzah, but this simple food miraculously nourished and sustained them for 30 days.
She had the Kiddush cup and the seder plate and the cover for the matzah. She had the foods, the celery and horseradish and salt water, and because she was still a little hazy on what you were allowed to eat on Passover, those foods would make up the bulk of her seder meal, along with macarons for desert.
The holiday is marked by a period of abstinence from leavened food, consumption of unleavened bread, called matzah, and the holding of traditional dinners, called seders.
They talk about spiritual chametz as the puffy, overextended parts of our ego--the way we try to posture and preen, to be someone in the world (or in the room) rather than just existing as we are; we are encouraged to be gentle and modest, a mere humble matzah.
The three-course Seder will include homemade meal options including a mesclun and arugula salad, roasted beet salad, choice of matzah ball and potato leek soups, braised prime beef brisket, chicken breast Marsala, Moroccan salmon, scrumptious desserts, the traditional four cups of wine, soft drinks and full-service bar.
Rabbi Fogelman said the most important Passover tradition for him, personally, is to make sure every Jewish person he meets has a piece of shmurah matzah.
123f.) The quintessence of this danger is matzah, the unleavened bread of Passover (p.
The exhibition highlights a range of design objects, including a never-before-shown matzah holder by Anni Albers, Henry Dreyfuss's pink Princess phone, and George Nelson's Marshmallow sofa for Herman Miller.
The domestic observance of Passover, no longer prioritizing the paschal lamb, gave new status to matzah as the chief Passover food.
A coil-bound, hard-cover, 128 page, profusely illustrated collection of more than 80 wonderfully 'kitchen cook friendly' recipes, the dishes comprising "Get Cooking: A Jewish American Family Cookbook" range from Shabbat Winter Stew; Pomegranate Barbecue Chicken; Pizza Fondue; and Lamb Kufte Kebabs; to Garlic-Chive Matzah Balls; Southwestern Pulled Brisket Sukko-Tacos; Mini Sweet Potato Knishes; and Super 3-Bean Chili Bowl.
Although in a separate section, Jeffrey Shandler's chapter on the marketing of Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt and Jonathan Sarna's on the transformation of the matzah from round and handmade to square and mass produced also explore entrepreneurial innovation.
Though the old Christian European blood libel against the Jews has gained some currency in the Middle East in recent decades, I don't recall anyone suggesting that the IDF had killed al-Dura to siphon off his blood to bake matzah, or unleavened bread, for Passover.
During Passover, as Antin briefly references, her family would refrain from eating leavened products in accordance with the prescribed Jewish custom and instead would consume the cracker-like matzah for the duration of the holiday.
They dipped parsley in salt water and made Hillel sandwiches out of matzah bread and a mixture of apples, cinnamon and nuts called charoset.