We always thought we were doing a great mitzvah by hanging our leftover bread on the side of the rubbish bin in plastic bags. Until our upstairs neighbor rushed in one day holding one of the bags. “You’re hanging your mazel in the air!” he said.
“Oy va’voy.” We’re not allowed to hang bread.
There’s so much in Yiddishkeit about bread so many sayings. I’ve come to see that these sayings aren’t just mumbo jumbo. For instance: “Crumbs of bread on the floor bring poverty upon a home.”
This saying which I heard is from the Zohar haKadosh could mean that breadcrumbs on the floor shows wastefulness which could ultimately leads to poverty. Or that lack of cleanliness is in itself a form of poverty in a home causing a person to feel low — impoverished.
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