Crab Orchard Review Vol. 12, No. 2, our

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Making Challah for the Sabbath We have in us deeply planted instructions—the ways I’ve learned to measure ingredients from my palm, set dough aside for a slow rise. I like to think of the many women uncovering bowls in kitchens on Fridays—mixtures doubled, fingers managing what’s whole, unformed—the week’s end in yeast, flour, salt, and the worn days left behind like wind-dragged leaves outside our kitchen door—the door you enter just in time to portion and piece a braid, careful not to worry the dough. A good bread depends on a firm touch, care in the work— what a lover’s hands can do. It’s in this way God plaited Eve’s hair, blessed her marriage to Adam in the Garden. You arrange 62 ◆ Crab Orchard Review Chanda Feldman

Chanda Feldman the thick braid as I whisk a yolk-glaze. I’ll sprinkle poppy seeds over the loaves to recall the forty years manna fell— a miracle. The golden swell in oven-heat, tending to our hunger. Crab Orchard Review ◆ 63

Chanda Feldman<br />

the thick braid as I whisk a yolk-glaze.<br />

I’ll sprinkle poppy seeds over the loaves<br />

to recall the forty years manna fell—<br />

a miracle. The golden swell in oven-heat,<br />

tending to <strong>our</strong> hunger.<br />

<strong>Crab</strong> <strong>Orchard</strong> <strong>Review</strong> ◆ 63

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