This animated video, produced by Jewish Pathways, demonstrates how to wash your hands in accordance with Jewish law before eating bread. Besides cleanliness and holiness, the instant reason the rabbis call for washing before bread is to keep alive the memory of the proper treatment of teruma (...
Apart from eating matzah, Hebrews avoid all leavened bread during the entire week of Passover. Other foods that they avoid eating during this time include wheat, rye, barley, oats, or spelt in case they have a leavening agent. Based on their tradition these particular grains naturally rise ...
has pointed out thathandwashing has always played a crucial role in Judaism. “We wash ‘al netilat yadiim’upon awakening in the morning, before eating bread, and after going to the bathroom. Although it might seem like these rituals grew out of an impulse for physical cleanliness, the T...
Traditionally, Kabbalat Shabbat starts with Kiddush which consists of saying a prayer and lighting candles, then saying another prayer and drinking wine, and finally by blessing and eating the challah; a type of Jewish bread made with honey. After that dinner is served. My family doesn’t ...
the blessing of bread, which is dipped in salt or during the autumn holidays – in honey, and then the first change in Jewish dishes begins. Before eating, prayers and blessings are usually said. Traditional Tallit is also worn on this occasion. Tallit or a prayer shawl is a ritual garmen...
On the first day of Passover we say a special prayer asking for Sustenance in the year to come Abundant bread in the year to come The messiah to come and end Passover Dew to fall in Israel over the dry summer months Question 3 of 10 ...
Theprayer services for Rosh Hashanahare very long and last several hours. Unlike through most of the year, the hazzan's (cantor's) repetition of the Shmona Esrei do not word-for-word repeat the same prayers. Rather, the repetition is much longer, includes several long and elaborate songs...
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO[Sign of the serpent; The kingdoms are compared to a serpent; reason for each of the 10 plagues, and making known God’s Unique Name] CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE[More on the plagues and powers of natural order and Moses’ prayer] ...
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to God by waving them around in the Temple. Some understood this ritual to be a prayer for the protection of the barley harvest. Since biblical times Jews have observed the forty-nine days between Passover and Shavuot by formally counting them off. These forty-nine days of counting acquired...