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Shavuot was thus the concluding festival of the grain harvest, just as the eighth day of Sukkot was the concluding festival of the fruit harvest. During the existence of the Temple in Jerusalem, an offering of two loaves of bread from the wheat harvest was made on Shavuot according to the commandment in Lev. 23:17. [5]
These were the twelve unleavened and specially shaped showbreads, eaten by the priests after they had been displayed; two loaves of leavened bread prepared for the festival of Shavuot and eaten by the priests; thanksgiving breads, which included leavened bread, unleavened bread, unleavened wafers and scalded loaves, with one of each kind given ...
Shmura matzah ("watched" or "guarded" matzah), is the bread of preference for the Passover Seder in Orthodox Jewish communities. Shmura matzah is made from wheat that is guarded from contamination by leaven from the time of summer harvest [62] to its baking into matzot five to ten months later.
In the Passover story, the Jews fled Egypt in such a hurry that they didn’t have time for their breads to rise, so observant Jews will spend the entire Passover holiday eschewing leavened products.
Mimouna (Hebrew: מִימוּנָה, Arabic: ميمونة, Berber: Mimuna, ⵎⵉⵎⵓⵏⴰ) is a traditional Maghrebi Jewish [1] [2] celebration dinner that takes place in Morocco, [3] [4] [5] Israel, [6] France, [7] Canada, [8] and other places around the world where Maghrebi Jews live.
Gluten, a protein found naturally in wheat, barley and rye, becomes degraded during the fermentation process when making sourdough bread, says Van Buiten, so it naturally contains less gluten than ...
Arboud – Unleavened bread made of wheat flour baked in the embers of a campfire, traditional among Arab Bedouin. Arepa made of corn and corn flour, original from Colombia and Venezuela. Bannock – Unleavened bread originating in Ireland and the British Isles. Bataw – Unleavened bread made of barley, corn, or wheat, traditional in Egypt.
At this point in the Seder, Sefardic Jews (North African) have a custom of raising the Seder plate over the heads of all those present while chanting: Moroccan Jews sing "Bivhilu yatzanu mimitzrayim, halahma anya b'nei horin" (In haste we went out of Egypt [with our] bread of affliction, [now we are] free people), Algerian Jews sing "Ethmol ...