Rabbi Julian Sinclair on the paths to practice
"Lighting a candle for Shabbat is not optional and is way of honouring the Shabbat"
The Talmud describes Jerusalem as a "hill toward which all mouths are turned".
The end of infancy and the start of doing mitzvot.
The custom to check every egg is still entrenched in observant Ashkenazi homes.
Since when were adults allowed to throw food?
What makes a great sage?
The great mystic Rabbi Isaac Luria put it on the map as a minor holiday
Gelilah has a reputation as a second-class mitzvah.
Hagbah is one of the most dramatic and potentially heart-stopping moments in the synagogue service.
Sanctifying the new moon, Kiddush Levanah, is a prayer recited once every month.
One of the more radical tools in the arsenal of self-improvement.
In Jerusalem, most people light their Chanucah lamps outside their front doors or at the entrance to apartment buildings.
Dreidel is a four-sided top used to play a children's gambling game on Chanucah.
Many people have the custom of saying grace after meals on Shabbat while holding a full cup of wine in their right hand.
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