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Workshop-Breads of the Mikdash

The hands-on workshop includes actual baking of the Shtei Halechem (Two Loaves), Korban Toda (Thanksgiving) and Lechem Hapanim (Showbread) using authentic ingredients, methods and utensils, with a thorough explanation of the ingredients, methods and symbolism of all the breads. A rare peek into actu ...

Workshop-Baking the Toda

A hands-on workshop actually baking the four types of breads of the Korban Toda (Thanksgiving Offering) - chametz, rekikim, challat matza, murbechet - using authentic ingredients, methods and utensils, with a thorough explanation of the ingredients, methods and symbolism of all the breads. A rare pe ...

Workshop-Baking the Showbread

The hands-on workshop includes actual baking of the Showbread using authentic ingredients, methods and utensils, with a thorough explanation of the symbolism and the miracles associated with the Showbread. A rare peek into actual ancient Temple Service - preparing the special flour, kneading the dou ...

Workshop-Baking Shtei HaLechem

Hands-on workshop baking the Shtei Halechem (Two Loaves Offering), brought on Shavuot. You will learn how to prepare the special flour, knead, shape and bake this unique bread./ Type of activity: Hands-on workshop Length of lecture: 1.5 hours Applicable to: Families, Schools, Yeshivas, Ulp ...

Lecture-The Key to Happiness

Everyone knows that there is a link between the Showbread and wealth/livelihood. How exactly they are connected, not everyone knows. As a result of our research in the Showbread Institute and recent archeological discoveries, we have unmasked this umbilical connection. A fascinating lecture linking ...

Lecture-The Temple Within Us

It is written "And they shall build me a Temple and I will dwell within them" (Exodus, 25:8). The Divine commandment to build a Temple applies first and foremost to the Temple within each and every one of us. That being the case, what is the common thread between the physical structures of the Templ ...

Lecture-Dancing Ships and Punt ...

What was the shape of the Showbread? In the Talmud, Tractate Menahot (94b) there is a famous debate between Rebi Hanina and Rebi Yohanan regarding the shape of the Showbread. It mostly pertains to geometry, but not solely. There are deeper, mystic implications for the shape of the Showbread and also ...

News & Articles

The precise form of the Sfina Rokedet Shape
| 15/09/2019
In a previous article “Dancing Ship V or U?”we spoke about the shape of the Showbread according to the opinion of Rebi Yohanan and Rashi’s interpretation of how that looked, how it should more resemble a U shape than the V shape dep ...

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What is between R. Hanina and R. Yohahan?
| 15/09/2019
Regarding the debate between Rebi Hanina and Rebi Yohanan (Talmud, Tractate Menahot 94b) as to what the shape of the Showbread looked like (a rectangular folded shape – Teiva Perutza/Open-box, or a rounded folded shape – Sfina Rokedet/Dan ...

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Kanim (pipes) and Snipim (uprights)
| 15/09/2019
The commentator Rashi on the verse detailing the components of the Showbread Table “And you shall make its pans, bowls, “kesot” and “menakiyot” …….. ועשית קערותיו וכפותיו וקשותיו ומנקיותיו” (Exodus 25 ...

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Kranot (corners) of the Showbread
| 16/09/2019
In a Mishna (Menahot 96a) it states – “The Showbread is ten [tefachim/handbreadths] long and 5 [tefachim/handbreadths] wide and its “kranot” are 7 eztbaot (finger widths)”. Rashi (ibid.) in reference to the Two Loa ...

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Dancing Ship V or U?
| 16/09/2019
In the Talmud (Tractate Menahot 94b) there is a famous debate between Rebi Hanina and Rebi Yohanan about the shape of the Showbread – “R. Hanina says like a ‘Teiva Perutza’ (open box) R. Yohanan says like a ‘Sfina Rok ...

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Maimonides rules Teiva Perutza?
| 16/09/2019
Maimonides (Hilchot Temidin Umusafin 5:9) describes the shape of the Showbread as follows – “Each each loaf is מרובעת square as it says “Lechem Panim” (Exodus 25:30) that it should have many “panim” [sides]. The ...

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The Mystery of the Garmu Family
| 13/11/2019
The story of the Garmu family, who were in charge of preparing the Showbread during the period of the 2nd Temple is known to all. But who were the Garmu family really? And what is their true story? Source of the name Garmu The first time the Ga ...

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Bread of Truth or Falsehood?
| 10/01/2020
Rabbi Yosef Ben Porat (Shlita), head of Yeshiva “Ashrei Ha’Ish”, in his shiur (lecture) “Why do we not eat chametz (leaven) on Passover?” (2019) explains that matzo symbolizes truth while chametz (leaven) symbolizes fals ...

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Live
| 03/07/2020
Unique Beit Hamikdash Shiur Series for the Three Weeks Join us for a special series of shiurim that bring the Beit Hamikdash and the Avoda to life and punctuate how lacking our lives are without them. Includes groundbreaking new findings that are ...

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Parshat Hashavua
| 08/12/2020
An insightful and thought provoking look at the weekly Torah portion and how it is connected to the Showbread and its symbolism. It may be quite difficult to believe but bread, being such a fundamental concept in Judaism, is represented either catego ...

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Sefer Meir Panim
| 29/08/2022
Be'Shevach ve'hodaya to HKB"H we are pleased to announce the publication of the second edition of Sefer Meir Panim, the fruit of 10 years of research into the subjects of the Shulchan and the Lechem Hapanim. This is the definitive textbook on the sub ...

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