Shabbat Shalom! Here is a lovely Challa Cover for the Jewish SHabbat Kiddush Blessing
Fringed, made from white satin cloth Written in Hebrew: Shabbat and Yom Tov / (holiday)
with a nice design of wine goblet /cup, shabbat candle sticks / holders and above decorated with a Torah crown a simply lovely design embroidered in Festive gold and silver thread.
Size Approximately (Lx W) : 15 x 18.9 inch / 38 x 48 cm
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Blessing of the bread:
Blessed are you the Lord, our G-d and king of the universe, who brings us bread (food) from the earth
Baruch Ata Adonai Eloheinu melekh Ha'Olam, Motsi Lehem min Ha'Aretz
About Shabbat candles blessing: A daughter / child lights one candle and a married woman lights two candles It is traditionally common to give charity before lighting the Shabbat Candles The Shabbat candles should be lit no later than 18 minutes before sundown on Friday evening (i.e., before Shabbat begins) While covering her eyes, the woman waives her hands over the flames three times, to welcome the Shabbat, and says the Blessing : Blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the universe, Who sanctified us with his commandments and commanded us to kindle the Shabbat candles
A challah cover is a special cloth used to cover the two braided loaves (challah) set out on the table at the beginning of a Shabbator Yom Tov meal. While its appearance lends a decorative and ceremonial aspect to the set table, its presence serves both Halakhaic and symbolic function.
At the beginning of a Shabbat or holiday meal, a blessing must first be made over the wine (Kiddush) in order to sanctify the Shabbat. This is followed by the blessing over the bread (challah), which begins the meal. However, in the hierarchy of blessings mandated by the Sages, the blessing over bread should precede the blessing over wine. In order to preserve the priority of the wine, and not to "shame" the bread which should be blessed first, the bread is “removed” by concealing it from view with the challah cover.
In the absence of a challah cover, one may use a napkin, doily, tissues, or similar covering.
The placement of the challah under the challah cover and over the Shabbat tablecloth (or over a challah cutting board) also recalls the Biblical scene of the manna which the Israelites ate every day following the Exodus from Egypt. When Moses told the people about the manna, he said that it would fall for them every day of the week. However, in deference to the holiness of Shabbat, the manna would not fall on that day. Instead, two portions of manna would fall on Friday, enough for that day and for the Shabbat (Exodus 16:22-26). This is given as the reason for the use of two braided loaves at Shabbat and holiday meals, as the challahs represent the double portion of manna that fell in honor of Shabbat.
Each morning the Israelites found the manna in the fields, encased in two layers of dew to preserve its freshness. Rashi describes the way the manna was found:
Thus we see that the dew fell upon the ground and the manna fell upon it, and then dew fell again upon this, and so it was as though it were carefully packed in a chest (Rashi on Exodus 16:13, quoting Mechilta, Yoma 75b).
Thus, we place the challahs beneath a challah cover and over a tablecloth (or challah board) to recreate the miracle of the manna at our own Shabbat tables.
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