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The Challah Bread – A Double Portion


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The Challah bread is symbolic of the double portion of provision.  It is covered on the top and on the bottom because it represents the dew of the manna that God provided in the wilderness for 40 years.

Manna wasn’t bread, but a crystal substance that God provided in the morning and at night.  When it was eaten it received the flavor of whatever the person eating it was hungry for.  What are you hungry for?  Are you hungry for a marriage?  Are you hungry for a breakthrough in your home?  Are you hungry for prosperity?  Are you hungry for for the ministry?  Are you hungry for the gifts of the Spirit?  God is saying to us. I am Jehovah Jirah your provider, and when you keep the Sabbath, I will provide whatever you’re  hungry for.  I’ll provide it.  And it will never run out. 

You put the challah side by side because it is God’s double portion  It is symbolic of out God’s part, our part.  They go side by side, and you lift it up and you say the blessing over it.  Why do you lift it up?  You are reminding yourself and your children, “Father, I’m not in this on my own.  This is not by might, not by power, but by my spirit.  You are Jehovah Jireh my provider. 

A knife is also hidden next to the challah. But you never pull it out.  You leave it covered.  Because with God’s blessing you need nothing from this world.  This blessing comes from God and you don’t have to cut it, you just break it, because everything you put your hands to, God is going to cause it to prosper. 

Then you take the bread and dip it in salt.  There’s several reasons why salt is used.  The main reason is that the High Priests, as they were going into the Holy of Holies, would take the bread and dip it in salt and say, “God is purifying everything that I’m putting my hands on.”

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