RT Article
T1 Chickpeas at a Shalom Zakhar
JF Zutot
VO 19
IS 1
SP 163
OP 171
A1 Ron, Zvi
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1815446919
AB There is a popular Ashkenazic custom to serve chickpeas at the Shalom Zakhar celebration on the first Shabbat after a male child is born. Numerous homiletic reasons have been given for this in rabbinic literature. The origin of the custom lies in the practice to serve legumes, a food traditionally associated with mourning, at happy celebrations in order to confuse demonic forces who were understood to desire harming celebrants at such events. The chickpea was the legume of choice due to its longstanding association with fertility.
K1 Fertility
K1 Protection
K1 legume
K1 Custom
K1 chickpeas (arbes)
K1 Shalom Zakhar
DO 10.1163/18750214-bja10022