Challah Diary, "TODAH" Challah of Thanks to the Beloved

 A smaller "half" portion of Challah this week, like the "half shekel" we are one half of a whole, made complete in God.

"TODAH"! The Hebrew word for Thanks
I became excited about making it and felt His presence with me as I shaped four Hebrew letters  that spell "Todah" from the three strands.  Once they were shaped and arranged on the trays to bake, I  held them up  towards Heaven.  Thank you in Hebrew is the word "Todah", spelled in four Hebrew letters from right to left--tav..vav, dalet, hay.

He is to present his offering with the sacrifice of his fellowship offerings for thanksgiving along with cakes of bread with hametz.   Leviticus 7:13

עַל-חַלֹּת לֶחֶם חָמֵץ, יַקְרִיב קָרְבָּנוֹ, עַל-זֶבַח, תּוֹדַת שְׁלָמָיו

The voice of the beloved speaks to each of us in a unique way as we seek Him.  

I have found that one of my Love languages that the Holy Spirit engages me in is  the language of "Challah"!! (perhaps you've noticed!)

This week the Challah itself took the form of a Word!!  It is the word "Thank you" in Hebrew!!!  Which is pronounced, "Todah".  You will notice this word in many of the scriptures that speak of Thanksgiving and Praise.

You can see the word being shaped above and it is spelled out in challah on the Shabbat table here:

 "Todah"  means "Thank you" and is an offering of praise in Hebrew.

When baked,  the second letter , the "Vav" became a little too short, so the actual balance of the word is a little off, but you can see there is basically how the word "Todah" looks in Hebrew, in Challah!

On every Shabbat, we say the blessings giving thanks for the bread and wine and break bread in remembrance of Yeshua.   We thank God for He creates the bread from the earth.  We thank God for Yeshua, who is the Bread of Life, whose body was pierced and broken for us. In a moment when we broke the bread, both my daughter and I reached for the second letter, the "Vav".  We broke it and ate the bread and drank the wine (grape juice)  in remebrance of Yeshua who gave His life for us.  I realized then that the "vav" that we just broke off also has a particular meaning, one of which is "connection".  Yeshua is  the connector between Heaven and Earth.  And only through Him can we reach the Father.  As we ate the bread, we could feel His presence.

When I looked again at the word with the broken Vav,  
the Holy Spirit revealed another word for me to spell out!!

I did as He showed me, and re-arranged the remaining letters, and voila!

What a wonderful surprise!
It was this:

This word is "Dodi".  It means "Beloved".

You can see the word in the scriptures here, 

Ani le dodi, le dodi Li.

 אֲנִי לְדוֹדִי וְדוֹדִי לִי

I am my beloved's  and He is mine.

Song of Songs 6:3

Our Challah of Thanks revealed the Beloved!! Or rather, He revealed Himself to us through the Challah of thanks!!

It was a  special Shabbat!

”Dodi", Beloved
דֹּוּדִי

This past Shabbat we  read in the Parsha Tzav, which speaks of Thanks offerings and that is what inspired the Thanks TODAH challah !!

Offer God a sacrifice of thank offerings,
and pay your vows to the Most High.  Psalm 50:14

Blessings and Shavu'a Tov.  Have a blessed week!

Love, 
 ♡
Shayndel 

Note: for a word study of where to find scriptures that have the Hebrew word "Todah"  you can find it HERE,
and for "Dodi", HERE