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Daily Halacha - Is It Permissible to Use Frozen Bread as Lechem Mishneh?

Discover if frozen bread can count as the second loaf for Shabbat meals—and explore additional bread-related halachot—according to the rulings of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.

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Is it permissible to make the blessing over bread when it is inside a bag?

One should not make a blessing over lechem mishneh when it is closed in a bag since one needs to place both hands on the bread at the time of the blessing [Shulchan Aruch 267, Mishnah Berurah 23].

Is it permissible to use frozen bread as lechem mishneh?

One who does not have challah for lechem mishneh is permitted to take a frozen pita or challah from the freezer and make a blessing over it [Chazon Ovadiah].

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