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Square lockshen

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mommy100

Thu, Sep 17 2020, 8:13 pm

Growing up my mother always made square lockshen for the soup on rosh Hashana anyone know the reason for this?

Cspybe

Thu, Sep 17 2020, 8:31 pm

Also known as pletzlach
I've heard of some people using it on some yomim tovim. no idea why!

amother

Silver

Thu, Sep 17 2020, 8:37 pm

My mother makes it every shabbos. I dont think there's a reason for it.

amother

Beige

Thu, Sep 17 2020, 8:45 pm

Yes! For symbolic reasons
My family doesn't use regular lukshen or lukshen kugel on Rosh Hashana cuz its long and gets tangled....
Don't want to have a farshlept (drawn out) or tzubbibult yahr (confusing year)

amother

Azure

Thu, Sep 17 2020, 8:51 pm

I grew up with this too but no idea why! My mom jokes it’s the only minhag that my dad came into the marriage with lol. I’d love to understand why we did it

ra_mom

Thu, Sep 17 2020, 8:53 pm

mommy100 wrote:

Growing up my mother always made square lockshen for the soup on rosh Hashana anyone know the reason for this?

My MIL does it. She says it's because it's called farfel lokshen and it's a remez that all aveiros should be farfalen. 🙃

asmileaday

Thu, Sep 17 2020, 9:49 pm

I grew up with this too. Our reasoning was that the regular lukshen we used was thin, in yiddish that's called "din". We don't want to use the word din on r"h which is a stricter form of judgment.

Genius ↓

Thu, Sep 17 2020, 10:02 pm

asmileaday wrote:

I grew up with this too. Our reasoning was that the regular lukshen we used was thin, in yiddish that's called "din". We don't want to use the word din on r"h which is a stricter form of judgment.

I’ve been wondering about op’s question for a couple of days now and closely following, but every answer that was given I thought that there is definitely a different one but had no idea what it was. Thanks. I can sleep mit a ruing hartz now

pause

Thu, Sep 17 2020, 10:10 pm

asmileaday wrote:

I grew up with this too. Our reasoning was that the regular lukshen we used was thin, in yiddish that's called "din". We don't want to use the word din on r"h which is a stricter form of judgment.

This is what I was told.

silverlining3

Thu, Sep 17 2020, 10:31 pm

I knew there's a 'reason' for it but couldn't recall, thanks.

dankbar ↓

Thu, Sep 17 2020, 11:12 pm

I thought because long ones have an "eck". Also no long challos & only head of fish.

↑ Genius

Thu, Sep 17 2020, 11:17 pm

dankbar wrote:

I thought because long ones have an "eck". Also no long challos & only head of fish.

A square has four ecken

amother

Bronze

Thu, Sep 17 2020, 11:26 pm

asmileaday wrote:

I grew up with this too. Our reasoning was that the regular lukshen we used was thin, in yiddish that's called "din". We don't want to use the word din on r"h which is a stricter form of judgment.

Yes this was the reason I always knew why we eat square lukshen

↑ dankbar

Fri, Sep 18 2020, 12:48 am

genius wrote:

A square has four ecken

But its not like a tail

HelloG

Fri, Sep 18 2020, 12:59 am

dankbar wrote:

I thought because long ones have an "eck". Also no long challos & only head of fish.

thought it's along this line too but it has a few ecken lol

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