Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is a great time to recite Hanukkah blessings and Hanukkah prayers. When lighting the menorah, the candles are lit each evening from left to right, starting with the shammash, the candle used ...
The first performance of certain mitzvot in a year, including sitting in a sukkah, eating matzah at the Passover Seder, reading the megillah, or lighting the candles on Hanukkah. Eating a new fruit for the first time since Rosh Hashanah. Normally said before the blessing over the fruit, but some customarily say it afterwards. [3]
The "standing [prayer]", also known as the Shemoneh Esreh ("The Eighteen"), consisting of 19 strophes on weekdays and seven on Sabbath days and 9 on Rosh haShana Mussaf. It is the essential component of Jewish services, and is the only service that the Talmud calls prayer.
Beginning at sundown on Friday, September 15, 2023, Jews around the world will begin to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which ends at sundown on Sunday, September 17, 2023.
One of the most important holidays in the Jewish faith, "Chanukah" is an eight-day celebration of a miracle that took place around 200 B.C. Playing dreidel, lighting the menorah candles, and ...
The narrative in the Book of Genesis describing the announcement of Isaac's birth and his subsequent birth [33] is part of the Torah readings in synagogues on the first day of Rosh Hashanah, and the narrative of the sacrifice and binding of Isaac [34] is read in synagogue on the second day of Rosh Hashanah. The Mussaf Amidah prayer on Rosh ...
No matter how you plan to spend the holiday, check out this list of Hanukkah wishes, greetings, blessings, and captions to use this year. Traditional Hanukkah Greetings. Hanukkah Sameach (Happy ...
A Hanukkah menorah, or hanukkiah, [a] is a nine-branched candelabrum lit during the eight-day Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. Eight of the nine branches hold lights (candles or oil lamps) that symbolize the eight nights of the holiday; on each night, one more light is lit than the previous night, until on the final night all eight branches are ignited.