[Avodah] Avodah Digest, Vol 4, Issue 6

[Arie Folger]

RAM wrote:
> But the article from Rabbi Dovid Heber of the Star-K, at
> http://www.star-k.org/kashrus/kk-issues-challah.htm, which RMC had
> pointed us to, says that the shiur by bread is 12.25 or 16.5 cups of
> flour, while for mezonos it's only 8.66 cups. So I'm wondering what
> their point was. In other words, it seems to me that anyone who has
> to take challah from the bread they bake is even MORE likely to have
> to take challah from the cake they bake.

Bim'hilat kevod Toratkha, you seem to have misunderstood. 8.66 cups of flour 
is always the minimal shiur (1.2 kg). A berakhah is only recited on regular 
bread, and then only on a larger shiur. There are two issues conflated here: 
the shi'ur for safek 'hiyuv vs. the shi'ur for vadai 'hiyuv, and the kind of 
dough for which one needs to make a blessing.

Arie Folger