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The complete how-to handbook for Jewish living / Kerry M. Olitzky and Ronald H. Isaacs ; illustrations by Dorcas Gelabert.
LIBRA BM700 .O425 2004
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olitzky, Kerry M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Judaism--Customs and practices.
- Judaism.
- Jewish way of life.
- Physical Description:
- 563 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, N.J. : KTAV Publishing House, 2004.
- Contents:
- Basic Berachot 1
- The Rubrics of Prayer 11
- How to Make Aliyah to the Torah 15
- Putting on Tefillin 18
- Putting on a Tallit 25
- Baking and Braiding a Challah for Shabbat 29
- Lifting and Tying a Torah 32
- Chanting the Haftarah Blessings and Haftarah Trope 35
- Chanting the Torah 41
- Birkhat Ha-gomel 145
- Night Prayer
- Keriat Shema al Hameeta 47
- How to Light the Sabbath Candles 49
- How to Make Shabbat Evening Kiddush 52
- How to Make Havdalah 57
- Blowing a Shofar 61
- Tossing Tashlich 64
- Building a Sukkah 65
- The Four Species: Assembling the Lulav 67
- Waving the Lulav 70
- Lighting a Chanukiyah 73
- How to Play the Dreidel Game 77
- The Search for Chametz 79
- Making Matzah 82
- Setting the Seder Table 84
- Leading the Seder 86
- Counting the Omer 89
- Leading Birkat Hamazon 92
- Lighting the Memorial Candle 97
- How to Read a Tombstone 101
- Putting Up a Mezuzah 104
- How to Dance the Hora 106
- Making a Jewish Family Tree 108
- How to Visit the Sick 111
- Tzedakah and Doing Deeds of Kindness 113
- Finding the Meaning of Your Hebrew Name 115
- Instant Information 118
- Synagogue Geography 118
- 39 Labors Traditionally Prohibited on Shabbat 120
- What to Avoid on Pesach 122
- Prohibited/Permitted Foods 124
- Rules for Kashrut 127
- Books of the Bible 130
- Parashat Hashavuah: Weekly Torah/Haftarah Readings 133
- The Hebrew (Luni-Solar) Calendar 138
- Alef-Bet 141
- Basic Modern Hebrew Vocabulary 143
- Greetings for Shabbat, Holiday and Everyday 145
- The Ten Commandments 147
- Thirteen Principles of Faith 149
- Maimonides' Eight Degrees of Tzedakah 152
- Singing Hatikvah 154
- How to Locate Twelve Important Places in Israel 156
- Psalm for Pilgrimage to Jerusalem 159
- Tefillat Haderech 161
- Kaddish Derabbanan 163
- Giving a Devar Torah 169
- Arranging Aliyot or, How to Be a Gabbai 172
- How to Tell If a Torah Is Kosher, Tallit and Tefillin Too! 177
- Finding Dates on a Hebrew (Soli-Lunar) Calendar 179
- When to Say Amen and Mean It 184
- Announcing the New Month 186
- Blessing the Sun 188
- Blessing the Moon 191
- Entertaining Bride and Groom 195
- Doing Gematria 200
- Making a Misheberach 202
- A Parent's Prayer for Bar/Bat Mitzvah 205
- How to Make a Blessing or Say a Prayer 207
- Saying Selichot 209
- Starting a Jewish Library at Home 211
- Choosing a Religious School 213
- How to Celebrate a Simchah 216
- How to Welcome Friends and Neighbors into Your Home (Or: Rules for Jewish Etiquette) 218
- How to Give Tzedakah 220
- How to Arrange for a Brit Milah (Circumcision) 222
- How to Arrange for a Simchat Bat (Female Hebrew Naming and Covenant Ceremony) 226
- How to Arrange for a Pidyon Haben (Redemption of Firstborn Son) 229
- Family Blessings 234
- Preparing for Shabbat 236
- Getting Ready for Rosh Hashanah 238
- How to Construct Your Own Theology 241
- Planning a Jewish Trip 243
- How to Bury Ritual Objects of Place Them in a Genizah 246
- Making a Shivah Call 248
- Sitting Shivah and Observing Sheloshim 250
- How to Write a Condolence Letter 253
- How to Prepare an Ethical Will 255
- How to Write a Living Will 257
- Saying Yizkor 261
- How to Take a Dip in the Mikvah 264
- How to Save the Planet 267
- Avoiding the Evil Eye 269
- Doing Teshuva 271
- How to Be a Mentsch 273
- How to Bring the Mashiach! 274
- Instant Information
- Angels and Demons 277
- The Twenty-Third Psalm 279
- Mourner's Kaddish 281
- Hallel Psalms 284
- Order of the Prayer Service 291
- The Twelve Tribes of Israel 295
- The Ketubah 297
- Jewish Divorce: The Get 302
- Hakafot for Simchat Torah 307
- Who's Who and What's What on a Page of ...? 312
- Jewish Acronyms 316
- Jewish Surnames and Their Meanings 320
- Rashi Script 322
- Who's Who in the Bible 323
- The 613 Commandments 328
- Magazines, Newspapers and Journals 350
- Videos and Video Distributors 357
- The Electronic Arts 360
- Extra Holiday How To's
- Making (International) Charoset 363
- Baking Hamantaschen 366
- Making Etrog Jam 368
- Sending Mishlo'ach Manot 370
- Making Cheese Blintzes 372
- Making a Tu Bishevat Seder 374
- Dipping Apples in Honey (and Not Getting Stuck) 378
- Life Cycle Checklists 380
- How to
- Interpret Dreams 387
- Ameliorate a Bad Dream 389
- Add Meaning to the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Party 393
- Prepare a Meaningful Passover Family Seder 395
- Celebrate Lag B'Omer 398
- Improve Your Derekh Eretz 400
- Annul a Vow 402
- Choose a Synagogue 404
- Do Ushpizin for Sukkot 406
- Spiritualize Your Morning Waking Moments 408
- Kasher a Home 410
- Behave in a Synagogue 414
- Count a Minyan 417
- Devise a Mitzvah Performance Plan 419
- Do Jewish Meditation 422
- Make a Havdalah Kit 424
- Move Toward Greater Shabbat Observance 427
- Observe Yom Hashoah 432
- Personalize a Bar/Bat Mitzvah 434
- Plan a Spiritual Trip to Israel 437
- Pray with Kavannah 440
- Start a Study Chavurah 443
- Talk to Your Kids About God 446
- Use the Book of Pslams 449
- Choose a Religious School 452
- Teach Civic Responsibility 455
- Explain Death to Children 457
- Honor the Memory of the Deceased 459
- Do an Unveiling 461
- Do a Taharah 463
- Seven Laws of Noah 466
- Psalm 31: Woman of Valor 468
- Shalom Aleikhem 470
- Jewish Ethical Advice 473
- Redeeming Captives 476
- The Biblical Precepts Relevant to the Founding of the United States 478
- Who's Who in Bible Commentators 481
- Rabbinic Remedies for Illness 484
- Prophets of the Bible 486
- Names of God 494
- Jewish Numerology 497
- Jewish Superstitions 500
- Notable Quotations from the Bible 502
- Best Times to Get Married 503
- The Confessional 505
- Sing Hava Nagilah 507
- Who's Who in Rabbinic Commentators 509
- Sephardic Customs 512
- Twenty-Year Calendar of Jewish Holidays 516
- Sabbath Table Songs 521
- Healing Prayers, including Mi Sheberakh Prayers 525
- Basic Jewish Library 528
- Avoiding Lashon Hara 532
- Basic Terms in Kabbalah 534
- Books of the Talmud 537
- Fifteen Morning Blessings 541
- Healing Psalms 547.
- Notes:
- Compilation of three previous volumes: The how-to handbook for Jewish living / Kerry M. Olitzky and Ronald H. Isaacs, The second how-to handbook for Jewish living / Kerry M. Olitzky and Ronald H. Isaacs, and The third "how to" handbook for Jewish living / by Ron Isaacs and Kerry Olitzky.
- Contains:
- Olitzky, Kerry M. How-to handbook for Jewish living.
- Olitzky, Kerry M. Second how-to handbook for Jewish living.
- Isaacs, Ronald H. Third "how to" handbook for Jewish living.
- ISBN:
- 0881258385
- OCLC:
- 54774936
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