Question: Hi. My wife has started to separate challah and she is struggling to burn it. We don’t have a gas stove top so there is no easy access to… Read more »
Category: Hafrashat challah
Taking Challah
Question: Hi, thanks so much for this amazing site!! A few questions regarding “taking challah”: 1. When is the proper time to be mafrish the challah? I have seen it… Read more »
If you divide a dough between classmates and everyone home a piece do you have to give challah
Question: If you divide a dough between classmates and everyone home a piece do you have to give challah Answer: A dough that has a shiur of Challah, but the… Read more »
Do you have to take off challah from a batter of sponge cake
Question: Do you have to take off challah from a batter of sponge cake Answer: Essentialy yes, we have to take off challah from a recipe of sponge cake. But… Read more »
Hafroshas Challah
Question: I make 24(Tray Cakes) when making them each mixing bowl contains 500g of flour a little bit of water and other ingredients. I then half the mixture into two… Read more »
Hafrashas Challah on wheat sprouts
Question: When using sprouted flour (the wheat kernels were allowed to sprout slightly before grinding them into flour) to make Challah dough, can one rely on the same shiur (of… Read more »
Taking off Challah Bein Hashemashos on Erev Pesach
Question: Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to answer all the questions. I am learning Orach Chaim siman 261 and I heard a question that perhaps… Read more »
Hafrashat Challah
Question: We are in process of baking challah. After a few loaves were already baked we realized that Challah was not separated. Should we remove Challah from the leftover dough… Read more »
taking off challah
Question: One took off challah, but the challah that was taken off become mixed back in. May the lady do hataras nedarim and nullify her declaration of this piece of… Read more »
Piece of Dough Fell on Floor for Challah
Someone was making a dough and in the process a large piece fell out from the mixture onto the floor. They had made exactly the right amount in order to… Read more »
Forgot to Take Challah for Shabbos
My wife forgot to take Challah on the challos she made made for Shabbos, and we realized this just before Kiddush. Is there anything we should have done? Answer: In… Read more »
Challah for Mixed Flour
If someone made a “dough” that is rov corn flour and a miut of flour made from wheat is this dough chayiv in challah? Answer: The obligation of challah depends… Read more »
Forgot to Take Challah
My wife made dough using 2.5 kilos of flour (in israel) and baked a small piece and ate it. afterwards she remembered that she has to take challah, and took… Read more »
Quantity of Flour for Challah
Please could you clarify the quantities of flour required (both d’Rabonom and De’Oreisah) for hafroshos challah in the given circumstances: 1. White flour 2. Whole wheat flour – is there a… Read more »
Caked Placed Together for Kiddush
A number of people baked the same type of cake in a shiur less than what is chayiv in challah. They all come together and put it on the same… Read more »
Dough for Separate Breads
For baking challah, I use 17 cups of flour which I believe is the minimum shiur for taking challah with a bracha. Can I then break off a piece of… Read more »
Shehecheyanu for Separating Challah
Those that make hafrashes challah by matzas for Pesach. Or a man that is nohag like it says in Seforim (Siddur of the Yavetz and others) to make hafrashes challah… Read more »
Pajamas for Girls / Taking Challah after Baking
Shalom and Hag Sameach! 2 questions: 1) If it’s prohibited for a woman/girl to wear a pajamas (garment for men?) 2) If it’s permitted to separate challa from baked goods… Read more »
Joining Dough for Challah
Shalom! I have a question in regards to separating a challa. Bread, that I am baking, consist of 4 cups of flour, I cannot separate challa from this amount. So… Read more »
Burning Challah
Is there any prblem with putting the challa that one is mafrish when baking in your oven? Does it treif up the oven, or the baking tray its placed on?… Read more »
Challah Mixed in Dough
Last week I took off challah from a shiur dough and it got mixed into the dough again by mistake. I forgot and baked the challah. My husband asked a… Read more »
Burning Challah Outside Israel
Is there a requirement to burn chalah taken from dough, or can one just throw it out? This question is for the US. What is the correct blessing for the… Read more »
Burning Challah
Is challah that is seperated from bread treif in chutz laaretz, or in Israel? Meaning, if one were to burn it in the oven and flip it with a fork,… Read more »
Separating Challah
When separating challah for “hafrashas challah”. do you take off the part completely and then make a bracha? make a bracha on the whole dough and then take off the… Read more »