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It's a loaf of soft bread, usually containing eggs in addition to the usual familiar
ingredients of bread.

The word is taken from the Hebrew, originally meaning the portion of dough that
was separated and donated in support of the priests of the temple and their families.
With no Holy Temple for roughly the past 1940 years, Jews now separate and burn
a small portion of their dough before baking the rest, in recollection of the commandment
to separate from the dough for the support of the temple and its priests (Cohens).

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