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Eruv for Beginners: Shabbat Boundaries, Carrying, and Community Care
A narrative beginner guide to the eruv, explaining Shabbat carrying, neighborhood boundaries, family life, …
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Shabbat Afternoon for Beginners: Rest, Third Meal, and the Slow Return
A narrative beginner guide to Shabbat afternoon, including synagogue return, rest, Torah study, seudah shlishit, …
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Your First Shabbat Table: A Friday Night Story
A narrative beginner guide to Friday night Shabbat: candles, kiddush, challah, food, rest, guests, and the feeling of …
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Jewish Home Rituals for Beginners: Doorposts, Blessings, Giving, and Small Habits
A narrative beginner guide to everyday Jewish home practice through mezuzah, blessings, tzedakah, havdalah, hospitality, …
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Children at the Jewish Table: Helping Small Rituals Become Familiar
A narrative beginner guide to including children in Jewish home rituals through Shabbat, blessings, questions, songs, …
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Shabbat Morning for Beginners: Synagogue, Lunch, Rest, and Return
A narrative beginner guide to Shabbat morning at synagogue and home, from prayer and Torah reading to kiddush, lunch, …
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Yom Tov for Beginners: Festival Time at Home and Synagogue
A narrative beginner guide to Yom Tov, the major Jewish festival days that shape holiday meals, synagogue prayer, home …
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Preparing the Home for Passover: Chametz, Kitchen Change, and Calm
A narrative beginner guide to preparing a Jewish home for Passover, from chametz and kitchen change to questions, …
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Rosh Hashanah at Home for Beginners: Sweetness, Sound, and Return
A narrative beginner guide to Rosh Hashanah at home, including the table, shofar, greetings, symbolic foods, repair, …
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Modeh Ani and Morning Blessings: Beginning the Jewish Day
A narrative beginner guide to Modeh Ani and Jewish morning blessings, showing how waking, gratitude, the body, prayer, …
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Tu BiShvat at Home for Beginners: Fruit, Trees, and Quiet Renewal
A narrative beginner guide to Tu BiShvat, the Jewish new year for trees, through fruit, seder customs, ecology, …
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Shabbat Candle Lighting for Beginners: Welcoming the Week's Rest
A narrative beginner guide to Shabbat candle lighting at home, with attention to preparation, blessing, timing, family …
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The Shema at Home for Beginners: Morning, Bedtime, and Doorposts
A narrative beginner guide to the Shema as a Jewish home practice, from morning and evening prayer to bedtime, mezuzah, …
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Sukkot at Home for Beginners: Fragile Shelter, Guests, and Joy
A narrative beginner guide to Sukkot at home, including the sukkah, harvest joy, lulav and etrog, hospitality, meals, …
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Hanukkah for Beginners: Candles, Windows, and Public Memory
A narrative beginner guide to Hanukkah, including the hanukkiah, candle lighting, publicizing the miracle, oil foods, …
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Yahrzeit and Remembrance at Home: Candles, Kaddish, and Memory
A narrative beginner guide to yahrzeit, Jewish remembrance after shiva, memorial candles, Kaddish, Yizkor, tzedakah, …