Today's Hebrew word: חיים | pronounced: chaim | meaning: life
On the 6th day of creation, God created Adam by taking bits of earth and water, and shaping the arms, legs, organs, and face. then god breathed into the formed clay and gave it חיים, and it arose and walked and talked. god placed Adam in the garden and made him like a priest of the garden, and then took a side of Adam to create a woman named Chavah. God then gave Chavah to Adam.
If you take some flour from the earth, add some water, and add yeast, and then you knead it together, shape it, and then heat it so the yeast can breathe into the dough and make it rise, you create bread! when making challah bread, you take a piece of it out (the challah) and give it to the priests. Sound familiar?
Genesis 2:7-8 Then the Lord God formed Adam from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.
Food for thought! The word “challah” comes from a Hebrew word that means “to pierce”, perhaps this is because the Adam was pierced so his bride could be made ready for him and given to him.
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