Parshat Beshalach

Below are the foods and food references that are mentioned in the Parsha:

13. 17 Sea of reeds 

14.2 and the sea, by the sea 

14. 9 by the sea

14.16 over the sea,  the midst of the sea

14.21 over the sea, moved the sea, turned the sea on dry land, and the water…

14.23 midst of the sea

14.26 over the sea, and the water, 

14.27 over the sea, morning the water.., midst of the sea

14.28 water came back, in the sea

14.29 midst of the sea, water was a wall, 

15.1 into the sea

15.4 into the sea, sea of reeds

15.5 deep waters 

15.7 like straw

15.8 waters, running water, the deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea

15.10 the sea enshrouded them, mighty sank like lead in the water

15.19 into the sea, turned back the waters of the sea upon them, amid the sea

15.21 into the sea

15.22 sea of reeds, but they did not find water

15.23 they could not drink the waters of marah because they (the people) were bitter 

15.24 What shall we drink?

15.25 Hashem shower him a tree, he threw it into the water and the water became sweet. 

(15.26 discusses Hashem as a healer)

15.27. 12 springs of water and seventy date-palms, they encamped by the water

16.3 pot of meat, when we ate bread to satiety, to kill this entire congregation by famine. 

16.18 They measured in an omer and whoever took more had nothing extra and whoever took less was not lacking, everyone according to what he eats had they gathered. 

double portion of food

16.23 bake what you wish to bake and cook what you wish to cook and whatever is left over, put away for yourselves 

as a safekeeping until the morning 

16.25 eat it today for today is a sabbath for Hashem, today you shall not find it in the field 

16.26 6 days shall you gather it, but the seventh day is a sabbath, on it there will be none 

16.29 that is why he gives you on the 6th day a two-day portion of bread. 

16.31 called it manna. It was like coriander seed, it was white and it tasted like a cake fried in honey. 

16.32 a full omer of it shall be a safekeeping for your generations so that they will see the food with which I fed you in the wilderness…

16.33 take one jar and put a full omer of manna into it…

16.34 aaron placed it before the ark of Testimony for a safekeeping. 

16.35 ate the manna for forty years until their arrival in an inhabited land, they ate the manna until their arrival at the border of the land of canaan. 

16.36 the omer is a tenth of an ephah. 

17.1 there was no water for the people to drink. 

17.2 give us water that we may drink!

17.3 the people thirsted there for water, through thirst?

17.5 struck the river

17.6 strike the rock and water will come forth from it and the people will drink. (make a setting with rocks around glasses of water)

What will you add and savor this week? 

Looks like it's a Passover Seder this week! 

Shabbat shalom everyone! 

Below are the foods and food references that are mentioned in the Parsha:

Cattle

Vegetation of the earth

Fruits of the trees

Green of the trees

One lamb

Sheep

Goat

Eat the meat roasted over fire (and in one piece), together with matzos and bitter herbs

(Don’t eat it under-cooked or in boiling water)

(Don’t eat any of it until morning)

(Eat it quickly)

Matzos for 7 days

Eliminate all leaven

Do not eat any leavening substance

Hyssop

Dough when it was not yet leavened

Milk and honey

No chametz should be seen

Pesach, matzah, maror

What will you add and savor this week? 

Looks like it's a Passover Seder this week! 

Shabbat shalom everyone! 

Below are the foods and food references that are mentioned in the Parsha:

Water

Bread

Milk 

Honey

What will you add and savor this week? 

When I add  the foods and beverages mentioned to my meals this Shabbat, I will think about this week's Parsha, savor each of them and be grateful for this incredible gift from Hashem/God. 

Recipe ideas: 

French toast 

sweet fry bread covered with honey

sopapillas

beignet with honey on top

malawach drizzled  with bee honey or date honey

ftut (dairy and bread dish) drizzled with honey

Serving/presentation/other food ideas by Irene Falkenstein: 

serve foods in a straw basket

have salt water for tears and bitter herbs for the bitterness of slavery

Haroset for mortar

fruit salad for "fruitful and multiply greatly"

gold and silver foil covered chocolate or candy for promise of gold and silver when we leave Egypt

baked goods in the shape of bricks

water for Nile River

Shabbat shalom everyone!