#108: Lechem Mishneh (Part 1)

Rabbi Eli Ozarowski
  1. An additional facet of the mitzvah to eat bread at the Shabbat meals is "lechem mishneh", reciting Hamotzi over two whole challot or loaves of bread (Shulchan Aruch 274:1). The reason given for lechem mishneh is to commemorate the manna in the desert, which fell in a double portion on Friday, for Shabbat.
  2. Authorities disagree as to whether lechem mishneh is a Torah-mandated or Rabbinic mitzvah (see Magen Avraham; Taz; Aruch Hashulchan to O.C. 274). Regardless of the mandate’s source, the mitzvah requires that one cut and eat at least one of the two challot.Some have th

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