different between ashkenazi vs challah

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From Hebrew ??????? (?allá, “loaf”), influenced by Yiddish ???? (khale).

challah (countable and uncountable, plural challahs or challos or challot or challoth)

(countable) A traditional bread eaten by Ashkenazi Jews, usually braided for the Sabbath and round for Yom Tov.
- […] it is a time-honored custom that when women bake challah-loaves for Sabbath and Yom Tov use, they specifically prepare a dough large enough to be obligated in challah, so they can fulfill the mitzvah of separating challah […] .
(uncountable) The commandment to separate a portion of bread or bread dough for the cohanim (Numbers 15:17–21); in contemporary practice, the portion is burned until inedible.
(countable) The portion separated in fulfillment of the above.

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