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The sages tell us that "Without torah, there is no bread; without bread, there is no torah." Museum scribe Julie Seltzer will demonstrate the connections between food and text by combining a personal tour of her scribal workshop with Torah study and a series of baking classes.
In the third class of the three class series, Museum scribe Julie Seltzer will demonstrate the connections between food and text by combining a personal tour of her scribal workshop with study of the holiday of Passover and a session baking matzhas.
Before becoming a scribe, or soferet, Julie Seltzer was a baker at the Isabella Friedman Center in Connecticut. Among her culinary achievements was a series of challah breads evoking Hebrew letters, or a theme from the weekly Torah reading.
