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Shiva (Hebrew: שִׁבְעָה , romanized: šīvʿā, lit. 'seven') is the week-long mourning period in Judaism for first-degree relatives. The ritual is referred to as "sitting shiva" in English. The shiva period lasts for seven days following the burial.
Jewish customs of etiquette, known simply as Derekh Eretz (Hebrew: דרך ארץ, lit. ' way of the land '), [a] or what is a Hebrew idiom used to describe etiquette, is understood as the order and manner of conduct of man in the presence of other men; [1] [2] being a set of social norms drawn from the world of human interactions.
Some Orthodox families will sit shiva (Mourning) for someone who has married outside the faith because unless to prevent assimilation both the father and the mother teach both their sons and daughters to accept the Iron Yoke of the Torah, [14] the chances are not good the child will be raised in the Jewish faith; hence the sitting of Shiva is ...
Seventeenth of Tammuz (Shiva Asar B'Tammuz, minor fast) The minor fasts are mentioned in the Book of Zechariah as fasts in memory of the destruction of the First Temple . Zechariah 7 mentions the fasts in the fifth and seventh months, [ 10 ] and Zechariah 8 mentions four dates: "the fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth and the ...
This new wave of Jewish cinema allows considerable moral flexibility in its characters, centering (if not always celebrating) the unlikable (including in Shiva Baby and Beau is Afraid), or even ...
A mourner sitting shiva traditionally does not recite Kiddush levana due to the happy nature of its recitation, unless the shiva will end after the tenth of the month and there is a concern that he will miss the opportunity to recite it entirely.
Shemira (Hebrew: שמירה, lit. "watching" or "guarding") refers to the Jewish religious ritual of watching over the body of a deceased person from the time of death until burial. A male guardian is called a shomer (שומר ), and a female guardian is a shomeret (שומרת ). Shomrim (plural, שומרים ) are people who perform ...
'sitting'; pl. ישיבות, yeshivot or yeshivos) is a traditional Jewish educational institution focused on the study of Rabbinic literature, primarily the Talmud and halacha (Jewish law), while Torah and Jewish philosophy are studied in parallel.