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  • <a href="/thinking-torah-blog?post_id=1669221" target=""> <span class="slider_title"> Eikev: Deuteronomy 7:12 - 11:25  </span> </a> <span class="blog_author"> Rabbi Josh Whinston </span> <span class="blog_date"> Thursday, Aug 14th </span> <span class="slider_description"><p>I have always found the Motzi to be one of our most intriguing blessings. We recite it more often than almost any other blessing, traditionally before eating bread, yet its words are puzzling. We say, Hamotzi Lechem Min Ha’Aretz—“Who brings forth bread from the earth.” But bread does not actually come from the earth. Wheat comes from the earth, of course, but transforming wheat into bread takes tremendous effort, mostly the work of human hands.</p</span> <a href="/thinking-torah-blog?post_id=1669221" class="slider_link" target=""> Read More </a>

 

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