I take this opportunity to give thanks to Ribbono Shel Olam (Master of the Universe) for putting this idea in my head and for giving me enough friendly people around me to encourage me to undertake this project. I ask Hashem that He show kindness to me and to anyone who reads this by removing any errors that I may have in my understanding of the material that I present. What I present is just a few ideas that I have found to make our Shabbat preparations, and in the end our Shabbat Table, more meaningful.

What this blog is

The idea of this blog is to come up with some interesting recipe IDEAS based on the weekly parsha. Note that I said “ideas”. I’m no great chef, but I do enjoy learning Torah and of course like most people I also enjoy eating, so I thought it might be a great opportunity to combine the two. I have prepared many of the recipe suggestions that follow with my children over the last decade, and I found it a terrific way to engage them in both learning about the parsha and participating in the Shabbat meals.

Important Note on Sources

Let me just add that while I do enjoy reading Torah articles and listening to shiurim, I am just a regular Mum, not a Rabbi or Rebbetsin or anything like that.  If there are any mistakes please let me know so that they can be corrected.

Most of the material here comes from books I have read or shiurim I have heard. I also often do quick web searches to lead me to original source materials.  Where possible, I will include references in my blog posts.

I started writing a book on this topic many years ago, but raising a family got in the way.  More recently friends have encouraged me to write my “book” as a blog.  I am aware that some other people out there also write regular blogs or articles about food and the parsha, but all with a different perspective to this blog.

Please feel free to add your thoughts or actual recipes that you know work well in the comments section.