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Food is a source of sustenance and pleasure. It brings us together around the table for holiday feasts and simple weekday meals. Baking challahBraided egg bread eaten on Shabbat and holidays. Reminiscent of bread eaten by Priests in the Temple, of manna in the desert, and sustenance in general. Plural: Hallot with an old family recipe reminds us how food connects us to time and tradition. Trying an international dish at a new restaurant or growing our own tomatoes can show us the complex relationship between food and place. All of this is remarkable, providing so many reasons to pause and offer a blessing.Â
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Host a Shabbat dinner and lead a discussion about food justice!
Humanist and theist alternative blessings to encourage a renewed sense of gratitude for the daily blessing of sustenanceÂ
A motzi blessing acknowledging all the resources that go into making bread
A kavannah before eating to strive to make just choices
An addition to the blessing after the meals focusing on our family who brought us to this land, and the labor of the many whose hands brought food to our table for this celebration
To be recited upon eating food produced with special sensitivity to workers in the Food Industry
As the honey seeps into the cake, we find ourselves showered with sweetness
Blessing over wine, said at all joyous gatherings. Included are masculine and feminine blessings and a non-gendered blessing by liturgist Marcia Falk.
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