Jewish practices (festivals and rituals)
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- Jewish Practices
- Festivals
- Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year)
- Book of life - good
- Book of death - Bad
- intermediate book - middle
- apples dipped in honey/sweet new year
- Charity work so God forgives them for their sins
- Shofah is blown to call for repentance
- prayers said in synagogue/torah read out
- Book of life - good
- Pesach (slavery)
- held in march or april
- Lasts for 7 to 8 days
- Food on sedar plate
- Karpas= green vegetables dipped in salt water/new life and the tears shed
- Maror = bitter herbs/bitterness of slavery
- Baytsah = an egg (not to be eaten)/sacrifices in temple
- Z'roah = lamb bone (not to be eaten)/lamb sacrificed before the exodus
- Charoset = sweet paste/life is sweeter now
- Begins with sedar which consists of meal and service
- wine as a symbol of lambs blood put on doors during 10 plagues
- Matzah is eaten/ bread could not rise in time
- Haggadah (storybook) is told throughout the meal
- Yom Kippur (day of atonement)
- "Atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you of all your sins"
- holiest day
- asking god for forgiveness
- many believe the day of judgement will be held on yom kippur
- time spent at synagogue
- 25 hour fast
- wear white as a symbol of purity
- do not bathe, wear leather or shoes, or have sex
- Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year)
- Rituals
- Child
- Brit Milah
- "every male among you shall be circumcised
- covenant between Abraham and god
- 8 days after birth
- carried out by a mohel
- given hebrew name
- Kiddush is siad
- Bat Mitzvah (girl)
- 12
- only reform, not orthodox
- similar pattern to bar mitzvah
- Bar Mitzvah (boy)
- 13
- takes place during service at synagogue
- boy will read from torah
- father thanks god for bringing his boy to maturity
- gift and meal
- after ceremony boy is now part of minyan
- Brit Milah
- Adult
- Wedding Ceremony
- 1. the couple fast to cleanse sins
- 2. the ceremony takes place under the chuppah = home
- 3. the groom gives the bride a ring
- 4. 7 blessings are recited
- 5. rabbi blesses the couple
- 6. the couple sign the ketubah infront of witnesses (brides rights)
- 7. couple share a glass of wine
- 8. man breaks glass to show regret of the destruction of the temple
- 9. couple share time in a private room ;)
- 10. wedding reception
- "Hence a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, so that they become one flesh"
- "be fruitful and multiply"
- a spiritual bond is created by the merging of two souls
- synagogue or non religious venue
- Betrothal
- 12 month engagement period
- kiddushin
- orthodox couples do not see each other a week before wedding ceremony
- Wedding Ceremony
- Child
- Festivals
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