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PrayerAll the World’s a Place for Prayer Why Pray? A Soul for God Hannah’s Prayer The Words Are Only a Way Living a Prayerful Life From the Depths God is My Shepherd Significance of the Tallit (Prayer Shawl) Significance of Tefillin (Phylacteries) Climbing the Rungs of Prayer
GodGod Is My Shepherd Does God Hear Our Prayers? Must I Believe in God? From Belief to Faith Anybody Listening? Outer Faith, Inner Faith
Body & SoulSpirituality & the Soul Body & Soul Treating Addiction
The EnvironmentEnvironmentally Conscious Jewish Life The Need for Wonder Guests in God’s World The Souls of Trees
FoodThe Spirituality of Food No Food Before Helping Those In Need Vegetarianism: Kashrut for Our Age Food & Awareness I Am What I Eat
RelationshipsBuber’s I & Thou Making It Holy Marriage & God Marriage & Community
NewbornsWhen She Arrives A Difficult Rite Why the Covenant?
TeensD’var Torah as Religious Struggle Leaving for College AgingLike Abraham & Moses Celebrating Aging
Work & MoneyWork As Spiritual Practice Balancing Work & Family Work as Calling Judaism’s Encounter With Greed |
ShabbatA Spiritual Orientation Friday Night at Home How to Bring in Shabbat Enjoyment & Spiritual Fulfillment A Sanctuary in Time Sabbath Meditation Creation & Exodus Taking Leave of Shabbat
Rosh HashanahListening to the Shofar Renewing Ourselves Facing the Music Guided Meditation Music to Our Ears Psalm 27 Confronting Death Liberating Life
Yom KippurLast Chance The Double Purpose of Yom Kippur The Healing Power of Confession Jonah: Success or Failure?
SukkotGod’s Sukkah The Sukkah Paradox Joy as Religious Obligation After Liberation The Sukkah Still Stands
HanukkahLiving With Imperfection Spiritual vs. Political Hanukkah & Winter Solstice November-December Dilemma
Tu BishvatThe Promise of Tu Bishvat A Lesson in Abundance
PassoverThe Hidden Matzah Spiritual Hametz Self-Liberation
ConversionNew Name for a New Identity Going to the Mikveh: The Day Before Going to the Mikveh: The Day After
Death & MourningKaddish Speaks to Mourners Being With the Dying Confronting Death Before Death Confronts Us What Death Teaches About Life Yizkor for Infant Deaths
New RitualsLeaving Home After High School
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Hasidic
Pronounced: khah-SID-ik, Origin: Hebrew, a stream within ultra-Orthodox Judaism that grew out of an 18th-century mystical revival movement.
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mitzvah
Pronounced: MITZ-vuh or meetz-VAH, Origin: Hebrew, commandment, also used to mean good deed.
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Shabbat
Pronounced: shuh-BAHT or shah-BAHT, Origin: Hebrew, the Sabbath, from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday.
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shofar
Pronounced: sho-FAR or SHO-far, Origin: Hebrew, a ram’s horn that is sounded during the month of Elul, on Rosh Hashanah, and on Yom Kippur. It is mentioned numerous times in the Bible, in reference to its ceremonial use in the Temple and to its function as a signal-horn of war.
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Torah
Pronunced: TORE-uh, Origin: Hebrew, the Five Books of Moses.
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