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WISDOM AND SOUND ADVICE FROM THE TORAH

Bread:

Abu Hazim relates: "I asked whether the people had a sieve
in the time of the Prophet (may God bless him and grant
him peace). 'I never saw a sieve up to the death of the Mes-
senger,' he said. 'In that case, how did you eat barley bread
that had not been sieved?' I asked. He answered, 'We would
blow on it, and the husks would fly away. The remaining
(bran) we would soften with water and knead." 45
According to Ummi Ayman (ra): "The Messenger of God
(may God bless him and grant him peace) said, 'Put the
bran you have removed back with the rest (the flour), then
knead it (and make bread).'" 46

Anas (ra) relates: "The Messenger of God (may God bless
him and grant him peace) ate 'nourishing' foods and wore
starched clothes. Hasen (who narrated the above from
Anas) was asked, 'What is 'nourishing' food?' He answered:
'Rough-milled barley, such that anyone placing it in his
mouth could only swallow it with water.'" 47

Ibn 'Abbas relates: "The Messenger of God's (may God bless
him and grant him peace) favorite food was sippet made from
bread and sippet made from hays (a well-known Arab dish.)" 48

Solomon's daily provisions were thirty cores of fine flour and
sixty cores of meal, ten head of stall-fed cattle, twenty of pas-
ture-fed cattle and a hundred sheep and goats, as well as deer,
gazelles, roebucks and choice fowl. (1 Kings, 4:22-23)

Moses also said, "You will know that it was the Lord when He
gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you
want in the morning." (Exodus, 16:8)

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