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  2. Dough offering - Wikipedia

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    Packer of Passover Shmurah Matzah at the "Boro Park Matzah bakery" performing the Mitzvah of separating Challah from each basket (called "צירוף סל" in Hebrew). In Judaism, the dough offering (or mitzvat terumat challah, "commandment of separating challah" Hebrew: מצוות תרומת חלה) is an assertive command requiring the owner of bread dough to give a part of the kneaded dough ...

  3. Slang terms for money - Wikipedia

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    Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...

  4. Dirham - Wikipedia

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    In Maimonides' commentary of the Mishnah (Eduyot 1:2, note 18), Rabbi Yosef Qafih explains that the weight of each Egyptian dirham was approximately 3.333 grams, [8] or what was the equivalent to 16 carob-grains [9] which, when taken together, the minimum weight of flour requiring the separation of the dough-portion comes to approx. 1 kilo and ...

  5. Sacramental bread - Wikipedia

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    Sacramental bread, also called Communion bread, Communion wafer, Sacred host, Eucharistic bread, the Lamb or simply the host (Latin: hostia, lit. 'sacrificial victim'), is the bread used in the Christian ritual of the Eucharist. Along with sacramental wine, it is one of two elements of the Eucharist.

  6. Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    In dry weight, the omer weighed between 1.560 kg to 1.770 kg, being the quantity of flour required to separate therefrom the dough offering. [32] In the Torah, it is the Priestly Code which refers to the omer , rather than to the se'ah or kab ; [ 1 ] textual scholars view the Priestly Code as one of the later sources of the Torah, dating from a ...

  7. Showbread - Wikipedia

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    Showbread (Hebrew: לחם הפנים Leḥem haPānīm, literally: "Bread of the Faces" [1]), in the King James Version shewbread, in a Biblical or Jewish context, refers to the cakes or loaves of bread which were always present, on a specially-dedicated table, in the Temple in Jerusalem as an offering to God.

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  9. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...