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The Torah Matzav
Monday, May 18, 2020
Where's the cheesecake?
What to
bake for שבועות
(a) Seven-layer cake
(b) 3 cornered
kreplach- Haman Taschen
(c) Saffron
Matzah
(d) Saffron cake
(e) 4 cornered
Challah
(f) Honey
cake
I haven't found
yet a source for baking cheesecake for שבועות
The Sefer יוסף אומץ ס' תתנ"ד writes the
Minhag was to make a cake/kugel in the
shape of a (a) seven-rung ladder. The reason for it is because,
during Matan Torah, Hashem tore open all 7 heavens to show
that אין עוד מלבדו. The Minhag in many
German Kehilos was to bake for שבועות a seven-layer
cake for the seven weeks we counted.
The Sefer מנהגי ישורון writes of the Minhag to eat (b) 3
cornered Kreplach (Haman
Taschen) to commemmerate Matan Torah דיהיב אוריאן תליתאי לעם תליתאי ע"י תליתאי ביום תליתאי בירחא תליתאי
The כל בו writes that
"the מנהג בכל ישראל* is to eat on שבועות, (c) Matzah with
Saffron".The Chok Yaakov O. Ch.494 has a (d) girsa “עוגה”
(cake) instead of Matzah. The כל בו gives the reason " because it is
משמח את הלב (brings joy to the heart)."
The כל בו also
writes to bake a (e) Challah with four corners (looks like two)
to remind us of the שתי הלחם and/or it symbolizes
"twins" (מזל סיון תאומים)
The רוקח writes that
on Shavuos morning you bring the children for the
first time in Shul and serve them a specially inscribed (f) honey
cake.
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