[Avodah] See-Through Challah Cover

[Lisa Liel]

On 8/19/2011 10:31 AM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 09:32:19AM -0500, Lisa Liel wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Did MRAH really have to worry about hakaras hatov to the Nile and the
> Egyptian sand? Of course not. Yet Rashi on Shemos 7:19 quotes Chazal
> that this is why Aharon was the one to do the acts that initiated the
> first makkos.

Oh, come on.  That's midrash.  We don't pasken from that.

> It's important to excercise the middah, regardless of the "recipient".

Fine.  Where do we get the idea that challah feels embarrassment?  Maybe 
the challah is an anav and wants to defer to the wine.

> (BTW, we had pretty much the same exchange on scj in May 1999.)

Ah, but I'm guessing it wasn't as civil.

Lisa