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Definition of Challah
1. Noun. (Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking.
Category relationships: Cookery, Cooking, Preparation, Judaism
Generic synonyms: Bread, Breadstuff, Staff Of Life
Definition of Challah
1. Noun. A traditional braided bread eaten by Ashkenazi Jews on the Sabbath ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Challah
1. a kind of bread [n -LAHS, -LOTH, or -LOT]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Challah
Literary usage of Challah
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eat Your Food! Gastronomical Glory from Garden to Gut: A Coastalfields by Aaron Brachfeld, Aaron Brachfeld and Mary Choate, Mary Choate (2007)
"challah challah is delicious egg bread that is usually thought of as a traditional
Jewish food. It is typically braided before baking. ..."
2. Yohale Sarah: Containing Religious Duties of the Daughters of Israel and by Abraham Eber Hirschowitz (1918)
"Two large quantities of dough, although kneaded separately, may be joined and
one "challah" taken of both. The proper course is for "challah" to be taken ..."
3. The Jewish Religion by Michael Friedländer (1891)
"challah reminds us of the commandment to give the first part of the dough to the
priest (Num. xv. 17-21). Although at present this commandment cannot be ..."
4. Jewish Ceremonial Institutions and Customs by William Rosenau (1912)
"This act is also accompanied by a benediction, in which God is blessed for
commanding the separation of the challah. When the husband and father returns ..."
5. Record of Christian Work edited by Alexander McConnell, William Revell Moody, Arthur Percy Fitt (1910)
"This law respecting "challah" is si of the only three ... first of their dough
peculiar loaves which they bake f Sabbath—called and known by the of challah. ..."
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