If one is eating a meal with many of these categories of food and it contains bread, the blessing for bread ( To go directly to a specific blessing, click below: Bread Support My Jewish Learning Help us keep Jewish knowledge accessibleto millions of people around the world. ...
Sefirat Haomeror "Counting the Omer." Observant Jews still carry out this practice in the form of a blessing recited every evening. In ancient times the forty-nine days between the first day of Passover and Shavuot coincided with the spring harvest. In searching for the deeper meaning of ...
There are significant addends to the daily prayer and an additional prayer is added on to the blessing after a meal. It is different from other rituals because there is no special celebration where Jewish people are able to get off of work. Jewish people go to their work as usual but ...
Passover mealVery little is known about the chalice used by Jesus of Nazareth at the Last Supper. The first Christians used a cup of blessing for the Eucharistic celebration (1Cor 10:16), which insinuates that Jesus used a ritual cup. An exegetical study of the synoptic gos...
In the fall season the Jewish calendar is filled with many Jewish holy days. We begin withRosh HaShanah, the Jewish New Year; the calendar begins with us wishing each other a sweet new year. In order to carry the theme of us hoping for sweet blessing in the year to come, the world ...
This Jewish wedding tradition is also to show the idea that the kallah is expected to be modest, and her modesty will bring a blessing in to her new home.ChuppahThe Jewish wedding tradition is that the wedding ceremony takes place under the chuppah. It resembles the home of Abraham and ...
honors have created a new tradition: theSheva Shevahot, or seven praises. These seven praises are recited before, rather than after, the wedding meal, and emphasize the psalms and poems which celebrate the accomplishments ofbiblical women. The seventh praise is often theShehechiyanublessing. ...
During a Jewish wedding reception, honored guests will help recite blessings to give thanks for the festive meal and the couple's new union. Blessing the Challah The wedding meal and reception starts with a blessing, orhamotzi, over a beautiful loaf of challah, the traditional braided Shabbat ...
No kiddush is recited before this meal. As with all the Three Meals of the Sabbath, before we begin eating we must wash our hands. We make the Hamotzie blessing over two loaves ofchallah, just as we do for all the Sabbath Meals. ...
She is placed on a chair, wrapped in a large cloth, and the groom stands in front of her and quotes again from the Book of Esther (viii. 15 et seq.). Then the groom himself, as is customary in Yemen, pronounces, according to the version of Maimonides, the first blessing over a ...