Mishenichnas Adar Marbim B’simcha! Adar is the month of Happiness!!! The feeling of being satiated — creates real happiness. The happiness of knowing there is enough brings a calm that settles deep into the heart. For families who struggle daily to stretch every coin and calculate every purchase, bread is not just another item. It is security. The happiness of opening a bag and seeing fresh bread inside. The happiness of placing it on the counter and knowing today’s meal is p

There’s a verse in Tehillim (Psalms) that says: “Hashem casts His ice on the world like pieces of bread”  (Tehillim 147:17). Ice is bread. Snow is bread. How so? Snow lasts a long time. It melts slowly and is absorbed gradually into the earth and it becomes bread. Not like the rain which runs down into the rivers and oceans. That’s what the earth needs in order to produce food. That’s why the Gemara says that one snow is as valuable as five rains (Gemara Taanis 3b). The snow