Kissing Bread from YASO on 2004-02-11 (The Czernowitz-L Archive)

From: YASO <aizic_at_netvision.net.il>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 12:55:02 EST
To: Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
Reply-To: aizic_at_netvision.net.il

Whoever saw "Fiddler on the Roof," remembers the song, "tradition."

Well kissing the bread before disposing of it is part of our Jewish
tradition- heritage.

Once upon a time, <and there are still some Jews including me> Jews would
say a blessing over the bread. Since the bread has been blessed, it would
be a sin to just throw it away and so the tradition was born of kissing it
before disposing it,

Aizic
Received on 2004-02-11 13:17:19