Making a Torah, Baking Challah and Building Community
Double your Mitzvot, Double You Fun - Learn the Art of Baking Challah and Constructing a Torah
Friday, July 19, 2024, 1:00 PM 5:00 PM. Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation
BHC welcomes back Rabbis Linda Motzkin and Jonathan Rubenstein founders of the “Bread and Torah Project”, who will offer a “hands-on” activity: all participants will make challah with Rabbi Rubenstein.
And, as the dough rises, Rabbi Motzkin will lead us in sewing together completed panels of the Torah scroll she is writing.
Rabbi Motzkin is trained as a soferet—a scribe.. She is currently writing a Torah scroll and leading the Community Torah Project, a long-term undertaking designed to involve a wide range of participants in various steps in the hands-on process of making a Torah scroll, from the processing of deerskins into parchment panels to the proofreading of the completed text.
Since 2004 Rabbi Rubenstein has been teaching bread making and operating a non-profit, charitable bakery, Slice of Heaven Breads, out of the Temple Sinai kitchen. A volunteer program, Slice of Heaven Breadsproduced and sold a variety of breads and baked goods, with proceeds supporting hunger relief programs and other charitable causes. The bakery offered ongoing bread baking lessons, provided training and employment to individuals with disabilities, and donated and distributed challah weekly to nursing home residents, hospital patients, and the needy.
This is a “hands-on” activity. All participants will be able to prepare the challah dough with Rabbi Rubenstein. While the dough is set aside to rise, Rabbi Motzkin will demonstrate sewing together the parchments of the torah which she is building with everyone’s help!
Participate in making your own Challah, help to sew together a torah and then stay for an evening Kabbalat shabbat led by our Bread & Torah Rabbis! Enjoy a kiddush with your freshly baked challah and social hour with fellow congregants and friends at BHC.
Read the article that appeared in the Littleton Courier here.