[Avodah] See-Through Challah Cover

[Rich, Joel]

Is that even a real thing?  I thought that was a bubbe mayse that people made up to explain covering the challah.  I thought it was a matter of avoiding a safek and hiding the challah so that you can say borei pri hagafen before hamotzi.  Do we honestly worry about the feelings of a loaf of bread?

Lisa
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Perhaps the correct answer is yes and yes.  But is seeing the issue for the first safeik? (i.e. if I can see the bread through an impenetrable force field, assumedly I could make the borei pri hagafen with no qualms, what if I had the bread under an invisibility cloak a micron thick but I could feel it in my hand, would I still make borei pri hagafen first?)

In any event sensitivity to inanimate objects has a history (e.g. Moshe to the Nile)
KT
Joel Rich
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