How do I do hafrashas challah?

saralem

Fri, Jul 26 2019, 1:00 pm

if you have the Spice and Spirit (Lubavitch) cookbook, it has a great chapter on this, with lots of good info. things to consider : quantity of flour needed to make the bracha, when to make the bracha and hoe to break off the walnut sized piece, what to do with the broken off piece (I freeze them and burn them with the chametz), and so on. then you can freeze the challahs--I prefer to freeze them baked fully--some like to freeze shaped but unbaked.
this is truly a lovely mitzvah, and kind of a special time for you to daven for what you need as well as for others. I liken it to toiveling in a mikveh and the opportunity to ask for what you need. enjoy!

esuss

Fri, Jul 26 2019, 4:46 pm

Hope you got an answer already. But if not :

It has to be a minimum of 5 lb of flour to say a brocha and 2.5 lbs of flour and you do hafrasha without a bracha.
After you mix all ingredients and knead if for 10 minutes
hold a small piece of dough in your hand
Say the brocha להפריש חלה מן העיסה
Then some say a tefila.
Cut off the small piece
I wrap it in silver foil and leave it in oven while baking other things until fully burned. Other people freeze it and burn it with chometz.
Then I shape all the challas bake them and then freeze them.
Enjoy! Good Shabbos.

amother

Yellow

Sun, Jul 28 2019, 6:09 am

saralem wrote:

There can be issues with hafrasha if you don't bake all the challah and leave some unfrozen.

Ask a rabbi

JoyInTheMorning

Sun, Jul 28 2019, 6:17 am

esuss wrote:

I would suggest *not* baking the separated dough with other things in your oven, even if it is wrapped in silver foil. It is supposed to be baked separately, from what I have heard: There can be issues with the kashrut of the other items baked in an oven in which you are baking the separated dough, which is now forbidden.

I am normally not a person to agitate for new chumrot, but I also don't want to treif up my kitchen, and I haven't had a chance to research this issue thoroughly. (I also don't want to ask my rav until I know more about what I'm asking, so I don't have to keep coming back to him with follow-up questions. If I research the issue before, I can get it done in one conversation.) So in the meantime, when I make enough dough to separate challah, I wrap it in silver foil and put it in the freezer. Eventually, I'll burn it all in the oven.

esuss

Sun, Jul 28 2019, 7:28 am

On Torah anytime.com there is a shiur by Rabbi Eliezer Krohn about hilchos hafrashas challa. In that speech he specifically says that you could burn it at the same time.
My own Rav had told me this prior to that also. But everyone should definitely ask their own Rabbis.

PinkFridge

Sun, Jul 28 2019, 7:56 am

esuss wrote:

Yes, but it has to be wrapped really well so that it doesn't burst through the foil. Then you have a problem as per the pp.