"On Shabbat, modern Jews dip bread (or Challot) in salt before eating them.9 In addition salt plays a role in Passover observance.10 Salt also still has a liturgical role in the modern Catholic Church.11 And, of interest, there is a small group known as the Mandaeans, that number only about 20,000 in modern day Iraq and Iran that claim origins older than Islam and Christianity." . . . .