The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

New book: 410 pages about eating donuts | Israel today

2019-12-05T13:56:37.169Z


synagogue


If the donut is not fried in olive oil, have you got out of duty? • "The Donuts Valley" deals with pastry questions • And is it better to eat gingerbread?

  • Illustrative image (photographed has no connection to the article) // Photo: Gil Eliyahu Ginny

Chanukah is approaching and bakeries can already find hot and fragrant donuts, covered with a thin layer of whitewashed sugar powder or luxury pistachio ganache and stuffed with different fillings: from the simple, flavourful strawberry jam to sophisticated alcoholic beverages. The donut, our national dish for Chanukah for several centuries, is dedicated to the new book "The Donuts Valley," by Reuben King Schwartz of Brooklyn, New York, which deals entirely with the "custom of eating donuts during Chanukah." No less than 410 pages, not including appendices, which are more or less the number of calories in an average donut, are devoted to the important issue.

The book discusses classic halakhic questions such as what to greet a donut (alimony) and whether to prepare it should be excreted as excreted from bread and challah dough (should not), and also more esoteric questions such as whether to follow the donut eating practice when not frying it with olive oil and whether it is up In frying it with olive oil, can you just eat eating a dip in the oil to get out of the custom, is it up to everyone to eat donuts on Hanukkah, what is the amount of donuts you need to eat out of custom, what is the right time to eat the donuts and whether to give up donuts when They are eaten for pleasure and not for the sake of custom (which most of us do ).

Among other things, Schwartz discusses whether eating donuts is "halakhic" preferable to eating potato pancakes, stating that "simply prefer to eat donuts to potatoes," and therefore "if for some reason it is better to eat donuts," Because the donuts are the food mentioned in the words of our rabbi Maimon Abbey of the Maimonides, who wrote "and simplified the custom of making a donut, in the Alpsinge, and they are the hypocrites in honey and the 'escritin' translation, and is the custom of the ancients because they are roasted in male oil for his blessing."

This is not the author's first book, which has already published 30 books on various Torah matters, with his new book "Valley of the Sopans" joining two previous books he has also written and dealt with in Chanukah's eating "Eating Hillel: Studies and Notes on Positive and Eating Customs in Chanukah", vol. B'.

In the current book, Schwartz offers no less than 11 different reasons for eating Chanukah donuts, among them the remembrance of the fat jug, the memory of the "fat-fatter," the male of the manna, and the memory of the Havatine offering and the thank-you's that they baked with oil that were sacrificed while the Temple existed. Who needs so many reasons when the taste of the donut is so heavenly and joyful? enjoy your meal.

Source: israelhayom

All news articles on 2019-12-05

You may like

Trends 24h

News/Politics 2024-03-28T06:04:53.137Z

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.