Comments on: The Cooking Bracha: A Blessing for Making Food http://jcarrot.org/the-cooking-bracha-a-blessing-for-making-food Jews, Food, and Contemporary Issues Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nadya http://jcarrot.org/the-cooking-bracha-a-blessing-for-making-food/comment-page-1#comment-12976 Nadya Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:59:43 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/the-cooking-bracha-a-blessing-for-making-food/#comment-12976 Thanks so much, Leah! This has inspired another craft project--I'm set on making all my holiday gifts this year and I have a friend who will absolutely LOVE getting a framed cooking bracha to hang in her kitchen (which I'll probably decorate with photos that we took together at a farmer's market in Ojai)! Thanks so much, Leah! This has inspired another craft project–I’m set on making all my holiday gifts this year and I have a friend who will absolutely LOVE getting a framed cooking bracha to hang in her kitchen (which I’ll probably decorate with photos that we took together at a farmer’s market in Ojai)!

]]> By: Leah Koenig http://jcarrot.org/the-cooking-bracha-a-blessing-for-making-food/comment-page-1#comment-12799 Leah Koenig Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:21:42 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/the-cooking-bracha-a-blessing-for-making-food/#comment-12799 Hey Bruce, My Hebrew isn't good enough to repost this with vowels - maybe somebody else could?? In the meantime, here is the transliterated version, if that helps: Baruch atah Adonai Eloheinu melech ha’olam Borei pri ha’adamah Baruch atah Adonai Hanotein da’at v’zman livshol V’natan lanu tzorech mason Lachen anachnu y’cholim l’hevin matanoteycha Ken y’hi ratzon Sh’ha’ochel sh’bishalti Yiten simcha, shleimut v’mazon L’anashim sh’achlo V’yiten kavod la’aretz u’la’anashim She natano li et hahizdamnut Livshol im hamarchivim ha’eilo. Hey Bruce,

My Hebrew isn’t good enough to repost this with vowels – maybe somebody else could?? In the meantime, here is the transliterated version, if that helps:

Baruch atah Adonai
Eloheinu melech ha’olam
Borei pri ha’adamah

Baruch atah Adonai
Hanotein da’at v’zman livshol
V’natan lanu tzorech mason
Lachen anachnu y’cholim l’hevin matanoteycha

Ken y’hi ratzon
Sh’ha’ochel sh’bishalti
Yiten simcha, shleimut v’mazon
L’anashim sh’achlo
V’yiten kavod la’aretz u’la’anashim
She natano li et hahizdamnut
Livshol im hamarchivim ha’eilo.

]]> By: Bruce http://jcarrot.org/the-cooking-bracha-a-blessing-for-making-food/comment-page-1#comment-12680 Bruce Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:09:25 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/the-cooking-bracha-a-blessing-for-making-food/#comment-12680 Can you post a copy in Hebrew with vowels for us illiterates? Thank you for your time and heart. Can you post a copy in Hebrew with vowels for us illiterates? Thank you for your time and heart.

]]> By: Bobbi http://jcarrot.org/the-cooking-bracha-a-blessing-for-making-food/comment-page-1#comment-12187 Bobbi Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:42:33 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/the-cooking-bracha-a-blessing-for-making-food/#comment-12187 This is lovely. I like how you've included taking care of the land and blessing those who've helped get the ingredients to me. I was procrastinating about making dinner. It's so much easier to cook on the weekends when I have more time. But to touch my efforts with a bit of holiness, well, I'm off to the kitchen! Thanks. This is lovely. I like how you’ve included taking care of the land and blessing those who’ve helped get the ingredients to me. I was procrastinating about making dinner. It’s so much easier to cook on the weekends when I have more time. But to touch my efforts with a bit of holiness, well, I’m off to the kitchen! Thanks.

]]> By: shev http://jcarrot.org/the-cooking-bracha-a-blessing-for-making-food/comment-page-1#comment-12178 shev Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:58:10 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/the-cooking-bracha-a-blessing-for-making-food/#comment-12178 Beautiful. Is there a place we can easily access a printable copy? Thanks and Shabbat Shalom! Beautiful.

Is there a place we can easily access a printable copy?

Thanks and Shabbat Shalom!

]]> By: Leah Koenig http://jcarrot.org/the-cooking-bracha-a-blessing-for-making-food/comment-page-1#comment-12171 Leah Koenig Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:42:13 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/the-cooking-bracha-a-blessing-for-making-food/#comment-12171 Oh, that's so cool, Eric! I know about taking challah - but I don't consider that a "cooking blessing" in the sense that it's not really about the act of making food. But the tkhines prayers are absolutely amazing. I got shivers reading them! Oh, that’s so cool, Eric! I know about taking challah – but I don’t consider that a “cooking blessing” in the sense that it’s not really about the act of making food.

But the tkhines prayers are absolutely amazing. I got shivers reading them!

]]> By: Eric Schulmiller http://jcarrot.org/the-cooking-bracha-a-blessing-for-making-food/comment-page-1#comment-12169 Eric Schulmiller Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:26:40 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/the-cooking-bracha-a-blessing-for-making-food/#comment-12169 Leah, probably the "mother" of all cooking blessings is the one recited over the mitzvah of "taking hallah" - the blessing said when baking bread, when a small section of dough is burnt in the oven in symbolic remembrance that we can no longer designate a portion of our bread for the kohanim since the destruction of the Temple. Many centuries later, collections in yiddish called tkhines provided women with devotional prayers for all manner of activities, including some for cooking. There's even one for making kugel!! Here's the most famous one, for baking challah, from Seyder Tkhines - a 17th century collection, as cited in WomanPrayers: Prayers by Women from throughout History and Around the World, by Mary Ford-grabowsky Lord of all the world, in your hand is all blessing. I come now to revere your holiness by baking bread, and I ask you to bless all the ingredients. Send an angel to watch over my baking, so that all will be done well, the bread will rise nicely, and will not be burned. These baked goods will honor the holy Sabbath when holy blessings will be recited. Bless my work as you blessed the dough of Sarah and Rebecca, our mothers. My Lord God, listen to my voice, for you are the God who hears the voices of those who call upon you wholeheartedly. May you be praised to eternity. Leah, probably the “mother” of all cooking blessings is the one recited over the mitzvah of “taking hallah” – the blessing said when baking bread, when a small section of dough is burnt in the oven in symbolic remembrance that we can no longer designate a portion of our bread for the kohanim since the destruction of the Temple.

Many centuries later, collections in yiddish called tkhines provided women with devotional prayers for all manner of activities, including some for cooking. There’s even one for making kugel!! Here’s the most famous one, for baking challah, from Seyder Tkhines – a 17th century collection, as cited in WomanPrayers: Prayers by Women from throughout History and Around the World, by Mary Ford-grabowsky

Lord of all the world, in your hand is all blessing. I come now to revere your holiness by baking bread, and I ask you to bless all the ingredients. Send an angel to watch over my baking, so that all will be done well, the bread will rise nicely, and will not be burned. These baked goods will honor the holy Sabbath when holy blessings will be recited. Bless my work as you blessed the dough of Sarah and Rebecca, our mothers. My Lord God, listen to my voice, for you are the God who hears the voices of those who call upon you wholeheartedly. May you be praised to eternity.

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