The Talmud advises worshippers in the Jerusalem temple who wish to increase their wealth to pray facing the south, toward the direction of the table that held the ceremonial bread, because the bread was mystically linked to money. The mystical master and thirteenth century Kabbalist, Nachmanides, wrote of the ceremonial temple table and its showbread: “From the showbread upon the table came material blessings and economic abundance to all Israel.”8 He described the bread as a sort of economic kick start. (Strangely enough, even today, the idea linking money and bread lingers with us as we
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