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Shlissel Challah

By A Dash of Eve On Jun 20, 2020 Creative Challah | Holiday Videos | Passover | Shlissel Challah Comments Off No tags

The Key to Open the Heavenly Gates to Livelihood: “Shissel Challah”

The mitzvah of separating challah is a spiritual remedy that opens up channels of brocha. This Shabbos, following Pesach, has an added emphasis for a blessed livelihood, as explained in an article by Rabbi Ari Enkin:

There is a widespread custom to prepare a “shlissel challa” –“key challah” — on the Shabbat following Pesach. The earliest source for this custom seems to be from the work “Ohev Yisrael” by Rav Avraham Yehoshua Heshel (1748-1825), known as the “Apter Rav.” He calls the custom of preparing a shlissel challah after Pesach “an ancient custom” and offers several interpretations for the custom. The most popular interpretation is that the Jewish people ate manna until the second day of Passover after entering the Land of Israel. From then on, the people were responsible for their own parnassa, and to support themselves. As such, a key is baked with the challa, which represents the manna, as our wish that God open the “gates of parnassa.” Closely related to this idea is the custom of Syrian and Turkish Jews to put wheat kernels in the corners of the house after Pesach as a sign of prosperity for the year. Read More

The Key to Open the Heavenly Gates to Livelihood: “Shissel Challah” The mitzvah of separating challah is a spiritual remedy that opens up channels of brocha. This Shabbos, following Pesach, has an added emphasis for a blessed livelihood, as explained in an article by Rabbi Ari Enkin: There is a widespread custom to prepare a […]

3 Layered Kugel

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Try this at home! 3 Layered Kugel Recipe!

It’s one of my favorites Passover recipes.

Ingredients:

4 large onions diced
3 tbsp olive oil (to sauté onions in)
6 eggs
12-16 tbsp potato starch (divided)
6 tbsp mayonnaise (divided)
3 tsp salt (divided)
Ground pepper
Plus ingredients for each pot below

Boil in three separate pots:

Pot 1: 4 carrots & 1 large sweet potato

Pot 2: 5 potatoes

Pot 3: 6 zucchinis & 1 large potato

Boil, drain water, and mash each separate pot of vegetables.

Mix the rest of the ingredients and divide up evenly between the 3 mashed vegetable pot and mix with the mashed vegetable.

Layer into your desired banking dish (pot 1, then pot 2 then pot 3)

Bake at 350’ for 40 minutes or until firm.

Freezes well.

Enjoy! Chag Kasher v’sameach!

Try this at home! 3 Layered Kugel Recipe! It’s one of my favorites Passover recipes. Ingredients: 4 large onions diced 3 tbsp olive oil (to sauté onions in) 6 eggs 12-16 tbsp potato starch (divided) 6 tbsp mayonnaise (divided) 3 tsp salt (divided) Ground pepper Plus ingredients for each pot below Boil in three separate […]

True Freedom

By A Dash of Eve On Jun 13, 2020 Passover Comments Off No tags

It’s almost Pesach. Time for celebrating freedom, and I’m finally starting to feel free again. For years, I did not. Yes, we have never lived in such a free society as today’s. We can be anyone, do anything, and no one can hold us back from nothin’!

The days of being enslaved to a Pharaoh in Egypt are so yesterday, but we are still suffering tremendously. We are far from free. In our path toward personal growth, we often stumble across a huge roadblock. Very often, that roadblock is…one’s self. We stand in our own way.

Life is interesting. Just when you smugly think to yourself, ‘I’ve got this!’, circumstances change, and you are thrown another curveball. When this happens, there are a few options. You can either sink, tread water, or learn how to swim.

For a while, I felt like I was sinking. I was treading water for so long that I was about to give up. It was overwhelming to be on top of my game. I am a working mom—enough said! Some days, I would leave my house at eight in the morning, rush out to take the kids to school (and you know how that goes: this one can’t find his shoe, and this one doesn’t like her lunch, and this one looked at that one the wrong way…the usual), then I would head to work, put in a full day, and then go pick up the kids and come home to a house where the breakfast dishes were still on the counter, milk spills and all. And with herculean strength (and a little chocolate), I would find the wherewithal to smile (on a good day) and chat with the kids, while cleaning up the soggy breakfast mess. It still amazes me, after all these years, that supper has to be cooked EVERY SINGLE NIGHT, and my hungry kids are always waiting for ME to do it! Read More

It’s almost Pesach. Time for celebrating freedom, and I’m finally starting to feel free again. For years, I did not. Yes, we have never lived in such a free society as today’s. We can be anyone, do anything, and no one can hold us back from nothin’! The days of being enslaved to a Pharaoh […]

Best Passover and Gluten Free Chocolate Cake Ever!

By A Dash of Eve On Apr 19, 2016 Holiday Videos | Passover | Passover Cake | Recipes Videos Comments Off No tags

Passover Recipe

We have a few Passover birthdays in the Levy family. This was the winning birthday cake at our Passover get togethers year after year. This one bowl easy recipe given to me by one of my fabulous sisters-in-law, Dona Levy from Israel, was always polished off down to the last crumb.

This is one recipe that you will want to try for yourself and share with your friends.

Mix all ingredients in a bowl:
4 eggs
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 cup oil (I use olive oil)
1/2 cup cocoa
1/2 cup chopped nuts (I use ground almond and walnut)
3/4 cup potato starch
1 Israeli packet baking powder (10 grams) or 1 and a 1/2 heaping tsp.

Do not over mix with hand beater.

Bake at 350′ for 40-45 minutes.

While still hot out of the oven place a bar of good quality chocolate on top of cake. Let it melt and then smear it over the cake like an icing. Add any decorative topping such as sprinkles, ground nuts, or coconut.
Enjoy!!

We have a few Passover birthdays in the Levy family. This was the winning birthday cake at our Passover get togethers year after year. This one bowl easy recipe given to me by one of my fabulous sisters-in-law, Dona Levy from Israel, was always polished off down to the last crumb. This is one recipe […]

Pesach Is Coming

By A Dash of Eve On Apr 13, 2016 Holiday Videos | Passover Comments Off No tags

Pesach is Coming! Seder night is more powerful then you think! It is on the same fateful night that Jacob got the blessing from his father Isaac and the night that Queen Esther risked her life and went to the king. It is a night of tremendous power and potential. Chag Kasher V’Sameach!

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Pesach is Coming! Seder night is more powerful then you think! It is on the same fateful night that Jacob got the blessing from his father Isaac and the night that Queen Esther risked her life and went to the king. It is a night of tremendous power and potential. Chag Kasher V’Sameach!

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