Just the other day we finished the 12th chapter of our massekhet. This chapter delved into all the details concerning the lekhem hapanim, the 12 loaves of bread that were on the Table, and the shtai halekem, the two loaves of bread that were part of the Shavuot offering.
One of my
congregants, Helene Zipkin shared a link about the Showbread Institute. I hope
the next time I visited Israel, I will go there and see how they turn the
Gemara into a reality. I thought I would share with it you.
“Showbread
Institute
In the Book of the Zohar (Terumah, 155a) it is
written that the secret of the Showbread (Lechem Hapanim in Hebrew) is the
secret of the "Panim" פנים ("face" or "inner
spirituality"). The hidden secrets of the Showbread Table made by
Betzal'el in the Tabernacle and King Solomon in the Temple and the Showbread
baked by the Garmu family during the 2nd Temple period, have remained a mystery
for almost 2000 years.
The purpose of the Showbread Institute is to
research the Table and the Showbread and try to decipher them - How was the
Table constructed? What did the Showbread look like? How did they bake it? and
more. Combining various disciplines, an in-depth study of the ancient sources,
cereal chemistry, engineering, archeology and others, we attempt in the Showbread
Institute to solve the puzzle by peeling away layer upon layer until we finally
uncover the truth. With Divine help we have already made incredibly profound
discoveries about the Showbread that have never been published before and the
purpose of the Showbread Institute is to make them public, in print and via
other media, lectures and workshops. These discoveries are not solely the realm
of academia, but have practical application and are highly relevant to our
lives today.
The Showbread Institute was established in 2018
by Eliezer Meir Saidel, a master baker by profession, after many years of
research into the Meal Offerings of the Temple and particularly the Showbread.
When he began to teach others about the Showbread via lectures and workshops,
he decided to open an official institute to serve as an umbrella organization
for the research, publication and educational activites, in Karnei Shomron,
Israel. The Showbread Institute fosters peace and tolerance through our charity
work, engages in outreach by circulating between communites, educational
institutions, schools, yeshivas, ulpanas etc. in Israel and abroad, lecturing,
teaching and reacquainting the People of Israel with the Temple Service in
preparation for the rebuilding of the 3rd Temple, speedily in our days.
” https://www.showbreadinstitute.org/
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