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How To Do It - an Introduction |
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Judaism is very much a "doing" religion. In the orthodox tradition the details of how to do things can be overwhelming to the uninitiated and many Jews who have forgotten or never knew how in the first place can find it impossible to fit back in.
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How to make Friday nights more Jewish |
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Friday night is, of course, the beginning of
Shabbat. Traditionally it begins just before sunset but the constraints of modern life mean that this poses problems for many.
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How to make Saturdays more Jewish |
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Many people have to work on Shabbat but the idea of having a rest from
work once a week appeals to most of us. Since Saturday is the
traditional Jewish day of rest what can be done about this dilemma?
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How to Celebrate Rosh Hashana |
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The first thing to note about Rosh Hashana is that the calendar of
repentance starts with the month of Elul which precedes Tishri - the
first month of the spiritual year. The idea is something along the
lines of: "repent now - avoid the Yom Kippur rush".
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From the orthodox point of you there are many rules about building a
sukkah both in terms of its dimensions and how to construct it. From
the Reform point of view it is the principle which counts.
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How to Celebrate Simchat Torah |
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Together with Purim, Simchat Torah must rank as
one of the most fun-filled festivals of the Jewish calendar.
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How to Celebrate Chanukah |
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Chanukah celebrates the freeing of the Temple by the Maccabees. It also falls very close to Christmas and thus poses a problem for Jews in a Christian society.
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How to Celebrate Tu B'Shevat |
The Hebrew month of Shevat (the number fifteen being represented by the Hebrew letters making the sound 'Tu') is the new year for trees.
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At Pesach many people are invited to family gatherings but there is no reason why you cannot do it yourself should you find you are "it".
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The commandment to affix a mezuzah is contained in the Shema - one of the central prayers of the Jewish faith.
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Yes, this is an article about how to pray,
surprising though this may seem! You see one of the problems with most peoples'
Jewish education is that it stops at about age 13.
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How to convert to Judaism |
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Most Jews today accept that there are two ways of
becoming Jewish, by being born Jewish - generally accepted as being the child
of a Jewish mother - or by conversion.
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How to Make your Eating more Kosher |
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No, this is not an article about bagels and gefilte fish! Virtually every Jew is familiar with the word kosher and most have a reasonable idea what kashrut entails in whole or part.
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How to Participate in a Shiva |
In Jewish tradition when a relative dies it is
traditional for the mourner to "sit Shiva". The word "shiva"
relates to the Hebrew word "sheva" meaning "seven" and, as most people
know, it is the first seven days of the mourning period.
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