Shuv Tamid – שוב תמיד

It is said that women would dance naked and sing special prayers while making bread in the old temples.  Cakes are also a food of offering, and filling them with your prayers and intentions while cooking is still a powerful practice.  Here are two different recipes to try: (1) Whisk together: 1 cup olive oil 1 [...]

                             Etz Chayyim           “V’achalta, v’sheva’ta uv’rach’ta…”  Deut 8:10

Mesopotamian Unleavened Bread from “The Oldest Cuisine in the World”, Jean Bottero Knead coarse-ground ziqqu (cheap, plain, ordinary) flour with buttermilk. Cook on buttered dish spread thin.  

Make for me an altar of earth for libations Make for me an altar of unhewn stone for offering     And in every place where my name is called I will come and bless you מזבח אדמה תעשה-לי יין נסח מזבח אבנים תעשה-לי קדוש בכל-המקום אשר אזכיר אתשמי אבוא אליך וברכתך    

Elah Elah Shaddai Elyaqim Yoyahkhim Kadesha Shekhina Aethra Athra Qadisha Qaniyatu Elim Ashera Ashesh Atarah Atiratu Astarte haS’tar-hi Isha S’tar Ishtar Shulamitu Shalimu Rabbah Rabbatu Atirat Yam Rachmanah Rachmay haMakom Eyn Sof Eyn Chayyim Etz Chayyim Tel Chai Ruach haKodesh Ruach haOlam M’kor Beracha M’kor Emet M’kor haOr v’haChosech Ham’vorach Hawat Elat Anat Labi’tu Lilit [...]