Bread and salt throughout history, satisfy fundamental nutritional and sacrificial needs. They both, along with wine and oil, frame the religious cultures of many peoples. The taking, the blessing and the magic of bread and salt are the sin qua non of virtually all folk culture. They say to us be simple, live simple, bless nature’s bounty, bless God, bless the work of man’s labour. And be as honest as you can be…

So many of us in Toronto choose a Harbord Bakery Braided Hala to break and salt and bless on the Sabbath. It is simply good, honest. And delicious. Amen.