[Avodah] Whole Wheat Challah

Prof. Levine via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Fri Sep 30 08:04:11 PDT 2016


At 06:45 AM 9/30/2016, R. Micha wrote:
> Historically, dark bread was considered inferior. Thus, unlike fashions
> in clothing or table-cloth colors, there are actual pesaqim against
> using dark, coarse, bread.

> I don't think anyone holds they still apply mei'iqar hadin, now that many
> consider whole wheat bread superior to white. But RMF['s]... objection
> was that the difference in health benefit was insufficient reason to
> use aesthetically inferior bread.

One can buy white whole wheat flour and bake challah or bread with it 
and one cannot tell that it is whole wheat.

YL 



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