Bread & Torah | Seven Species Challah Baking (In Person)

Level up your challah game with Rabbi Jonathan Rubenstein, who will lead us in making his special recipe featuring all of the biblical seven species of Israel. Along the way, we’ll gather up meaningful morsels of spiritual learning–and some practical challah baking and shaping tips as well. Our completed challot will become the centerpieces of our communal Shabbat dinner; you’ll get a batch of dough to take home for your own challah later!
This session is open to adults and teens, as well as younger learners accompanied by a parent who are comfortable with a class taught towards adults.

Fee: $18 per person

Registration: This event is available in person. Please click the appropriate purple bar above to register.

About “Bread and Torah: Shavuot Learning for the Entire Community”
Nourish your body and soul with an incredible weekend of hands-on learning for the entire TBE community as we lead up to Shavuot, holiday of bread and torah. Led by Rabbis Linda Motzkin (“Torah”) and Jonathan Rubenstein (“Bread”) we will experience the intersections of challah and spirituality, Torah and art, and how they all come together in our communal celebration of Shavuot.
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About our scholars-in-residence, Bread and Torah
Rabbis Linda Motzkin and Jonathan Rubenstein are Rabbis Emeriti of Temple Sinai in Saratoga Springs, NY, where they served for over 36 years. Rabbi Linda is an artist, parchment maker, and soferet (Hebrew scribe) and creator of the Community Torah Project, a long-term educational endeavor to produce a Torah scroll with the assistance of hundreds of volunteers in the process, from transforming deerskins into parchment to sewing together completed panels. She is also the author of several Hebrew language textbooks, including the URJ Press 4-volume Hebrew Language curriculum for adult learners. Rabbi Jonathan is a baker, a former mental health chaplain, and the founder of Slice of Heaven Breads, a non-profit, all-volunteer charitable bakery producing a variety of baked goods, supporting hunger relief and other charitable causes, and teaching the craft of bread-making from a Jewish spiritual perspective.