1. The challah, either braided in the shape of a key or baked with an actual key, is said to be a Segulah for parnassah
   I would like to bake the challah with an actual key inside of it, but I don’t think this video tells you how to make the actual metal key.
   I would probably need to purchase some raw metal material and a hot iron utensil to mold the brass/metal material into a key.
   But it’s pretty difficult for me to search for all of that stuff in the stores on an Erev Shabbos. Plus, I would need another video tutorial to teach me how to mold the raw metal into a key because I am neither a silversmith or a blacksmith.
   I’m also concerned that I might accidentally burn myself when I try to pull out the hot key from the challah.

2. Don’t forget hafrashas challa

3. The original source of this Minhag ia the Apter Rebbe’s writings. It is not a litvishe minhag, and should only be done by chassidim.

   • What happens when someone with a Lithuanian background bakes a Shlissil challah ? Are you telling me the Hailiger Apta Rav s Sgulah for parnossa is only for people with a Hungarian, Polish, Ukrainian, lineage?

     • No I am saying that people shouldn’t take on minhagim that aren’t their minhagim

   • yes and parshes haman is also a chassidisha minhag yet the whole world says it
     (anything that is a segula for parnossah gets adopted by the whole world)

     • My response accidentally posted below, that I think Parshas Haman is actually mentioned in the Shulchan Aruch. Not a chassidishe minhag

     • The ‘whole world’? lol

   • When I relayed to my Litvishe Rosh Yeshiva your comment, he sighed and said, “Nu, nu.”
     Since I wasn’t sure what my Rosh Yeshiva meant,
     and since I know full well that every gesture he makes and every word he utters is meduyik tachlis hadikduk, I went to my Chasidishe rebbe, and told him over my Litvishe Rosh Yeshiva’s two-word response, hoping the rebbe would shed some additional light on the matter.
     The rebbe’s responded to my Rosh Yeshiva’s ‘Nu, nu’ comment, by sighing and saying in terse fashion: “Nee, nee.”
     When I asked the rebbe’s gabbai what the rebbe meant by ‘Nee, nee’, and whether the rebbe was maskim to my Rosh Yeshiva, the gabbai told me, “Tzorich iyun gadol.”
     The gabbai explained to me that every word of the rebbe, not unlike the Rosh Yeshiva, is “kodesh hakedoshim and is meduyik tachlis hadikduk.”
     “There are 2 ways to explain the rebbe’s ‘Nee, nee’ comment,” the gabbai said, “based on 2 explanations of the famous gesture of, ‘taking a [k]nee’.
     In football, ‘taking a [k]nee’ is usually a form of defiant protest. Conversely, in English culture, taking a knee is seen as an act of submission.”
     The gabbai went on to explain to me that when “the rebbe responded to your question about the Rosh Yeshiva’s ‘Nu,nu’ comment, by taking a [k]nee approach and saying ‘Nee, nee,’ he was either “protesting and disagreeing with your Litvishe Rosh Yeshiva, or he was capitulating to him and accepting his opinion.”
     “The question that really needs to be addressed,” the rebbe’s gabbai said, “is what did your Rosh Yeshiva mean when he said, ‘Nu,nu’,”.
     “When we clarify the intent of your Rosh Yeshiva’s ‘Nu, nu’ response, then we can first begin to plumb the depths of the rebbe’s succint, but ever-so-deep and profound ‘Nee, nee’ response.”
     “In short, we need to understand the ‘Nu, nu’, before we can undertsand the ‘Nee, nee’,” the gabbai said.
     I pondered the gabbai’s words for a few minutes and told him: “[k]nee, nee, what you’re saying might be true, and it might not be true.”

4. Huh?

5. Really? I don’t say Parshas Haman on Tuesday of Parshas Beshalach which is based on a typographical error. Instead I say it every day like it says in Shulchan Aruch.

6. Rav Yaakov ZTL strongly opposed adopting minhagim that were not one’s mesorah.
   It was for that reason that he opposed a mechitaza at a chasunah for those with Litvish background.

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