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On This Shabbos: Shlissel Challah

In many Jewish homes, a Shlissel Challah (Yiddish for key) will be served this Shabbos. There are different ways to do it. Full Story

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Not our minhag
May 2, 2019 10:56 pm

This is not the minhag of Chabad and the Rebbe.

Predictable
Reply to  Not our minhag
May 3, 2019 2:18 am

I saw that there were two comments and I knew with 100% certainty that the first comment would say that this isn’t Chabad’s minhag. So tell me – does it harm us to make a challah in the shape of a key?

Lets lose our identity
Reply to  Predictable
May 3, 2019 7:42 am

Does it harm us to wear a shtreimel, have long payos and long white socks?? Let’s just blend in to all other sects.

Predictable
Reply to  Lets lose our identity
May 3, 2019 2:10 pm

Not even close to the same thing.

Correct
Reply to  Not our minhag
May 3, 2019 7:43 am

But its not an “Aveira” either (if you do so….

Family Minhag
Reply to  Not our minhag
May 3, 2019 8:29 am

It isn’t a minhag of Chabad but if it is a minhag of a person’s family they should continue it.

Whats our minhag
May 2, 2019 11:34 pm

So is it minhag Chabad or not?

Based on christianity
Reply to  Whats our minhag
May 3, 2019 7:43 am

It isn’t. It actually has Christian sources

Source??
Reply to  Based on christianity
May 3, 2019 11:04 am

Source for this?

Please substantiate
Reply to  Based on christianity
May 3, 2019 11:11 am

can you substantiate this claim please? which christian sources?

Some info
Reply to  Please substantiate
May 3, 2019 7:09 pm

http://www.mesora.org/Shlissel.html “Keys were traditionally manufactured in the form of a cross, the traditional symbol of Christianity,[8] a physical item all Christian commoners would posses in their home.[9] On Easter, the Christian holiday which celebrates the idea of J ‘rising’ from the dead, they would bake the symbol of J —the key shaped like a cross—into or onto a rising loaf.[10] This was not only a religious gesture, but the bread was a special holiday treat. Sometimes these breads were wholly formed in the shape of a cross; other times the shape of a cross was made out of dough and… Read more »

When a person's mind is full of tum'ah...
Reply to  Some info
May 3, 2019 7:28 pm

…he’ll see tum’ah everywhere. So yes, if this guy has crosses on his mind, he’ll see everything as containing a cross. Next he (and you) will be saying that having windows with panes in your house comes from Christian sources…

This is the minhag
Reply to  Whats our minhag
May 3, 2019 11:10 am

The Minhag chabad is to argue on collive as to whether it is appropraite to do shlissel challah.

Lol
Reply to  This is the minhag
May 3, 2019 7:10 pm

Takke Every year

See Taamei Haminhogim
May 4, 2019 7:10 pm

Brings the Minhag from the Oheiv Yisroel, the Apta Rov (a talmid of the Maggid

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