<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 3:54 PM, saul mashbaum <<a href="mailto:smash52@netvision.net.il">smash52@netvision.net.il</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><p>I wrote</p><div class="Ih2E3d">
<p>>The lechem hapanim was baked in a mold, and could be bent/folded.</p>
</div><p>RRWolpoe responded: </p>
<p>>> The Lechem Hapanim seems to have been quite firm and not soft or pliable at all. </p>
<p>See MT T'midim v'Musafim 5:9, based on Menachot 56 . The Lechem Hapanim were baked 10 t'fachim long, and thus extended two t'fachim on each side beyond the 6 t'fachim wide shulchan. Theye folded (kofel) up to fit on the shulchan. </p>
<p>Saul Mashbaum<br><br></p></div>
</blockquote></div>GGZ & Thank you. I just consulted my Teimani friend "Yechiel" and he explained me that his "soft" foldable matzos were like VERY thin laffa and once folded would retain their shape. And I asked him about lechem Hapannim ,too.<br>
<br>So I must rethink this based upon newly obtained data. Previously I HAD thought that the matzos were baked in a mold ALREADY firm and folded instead of pliable and folded later <br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>
RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>