What is a Jewish Confirmation? What is a Bat/Bar Mitzvah important? What Covenant was described in the Torah? What is Halacha? What is the Jewish holiday after Yom Kippur? What is etrog in Judaism? What is the mezuzah important to Jews?
Jewish law requires that one immerse in a mikveh as part of the process ofconversionto Judaism. It also requires women to immerse beforegetting marriedand when observing the laws ofniddah(menstrual purity). There are also various other reasons — both traditional and modern — that women, as w...
Judaism: Race, Religion, or Ethnicity? Is being Jewish related to being part of a race or a religion? Is it cultural? No matter what position you take in this matter, this is probably not the answer you’re expecting. Life, the Afterlife, and the Soul ...
What does Bar Mitzvah mean? What is the Hebrew word for prayer? What is the holiest day in the Jewish calendar? What day on the Hebrew calendar is Yom Kippur? What is the holiest day on the Hebrew calendar? What does emunah mean in Judaism?
Developed by 16th-century Jewish mystics, Kabbalat Shabbat is a special collection of psalms and prayers. They are sung at synagogue on Friday... Learn more about this topic: Judaism | Beliefs, Doctrines & Branches from Chapter 7/ Lesson 3 ...
Judaism has no concept of «being brought to salvation.» No one is in need of «saving.» When Adam and Eve sinned, they brought the world down to a more physical level. Now the work for spirituality is more difficult, but the rewards are greater. We are not born «in sin....
he'd get drunk off of Manischewitz wine at Bar Mitzvahs. He still makes the charoset for his family's Passover Seder. These kinds of cultural connections to Judaism are what inspired the dishes at Mayer-Selinger's newest restaurant,Pulkies—a Jewish-style barbecue joint in New York City'...
I noticed that the World Union for Progressive Judaism version of Mishkan T’filah is slightly different from ours. Because it serves all the communities outside of the United States and Canada, they have a few additional readings sourced from international authors, and no national anthems other ...
My guest today is Joseph Henrich, a professor at Harvard, and an expert on the evolution of human cooperation and culture. I am a big fan of his book, “The Secret of Our Success” and he just published a new one called the Weirdest People in the World about people who fall under ...
One about Shabbat and what is all about….and the other more focused on how Judaism can play a role in your life. Anyway talk about a funny guy. Take Robin Williams, Jerry Seinfeld, and jimmy Fallon…mix them up…through on a suit and pais’….and you have him. His lectures were ...