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Friday Night Blessings of the Children

A family shares their "trickle down" multi-generational version of blessing their children [more]

Found In: Friday Evening

Tags: at the shabbat table, priestly blessing

Traditional Parental Blessing

This blessing is traditionally used every Friday evening by parents when blessing their children. [more]

Found In: Covenant & Naming Rituals, Friday Evening

Tags: at the shabbat table, Marcia Falk, priestly blessing

Tzedakah Customs

How one family practices giving tzedakah before Shabbat [more]

Found In: Friday Evening

Tags: at the shabbat table, tzedakah

Shalom Aleychem

Traditional song sung at the Friday night table welcoming the Shabbat angels with masculine and feminine Hebrew. [more]

Found In: Friday Evening

Tags: at the shabbat table, kabbalat shabbat

Blessing Children

Traditional blessings for children on Friday night using masculine and feminine God-language. Families share their personal practices for blessing children. [more]

Found In: Covenant & Naming Rituals, Friday Evening

Tags: at the shabbat table, Marcia Falk, priestly blessing

Blessing One's Children

Alternative blessings to the traditional ones of custom [more]

Found In: Covenant & Naming Rituals, Friday Evening

Tags: at the shabbat table

A Woman of Valor

A poem capturing the ambivalence around this traditional song, sung by a husband to his wife at the Shabbat table. [more]

Found In: Friday Evening

Tags: at the shabbat table, eshet hayil, Tamara Cohen

"A Woman of Valor" for Today

A reinterpretation of the traditional, set to music [more]

Found In: Friday Evening

Tags: at the shabbat table, eshet hayil, Juliet Spitzer

A Response to "Ayshet Hayil" for Sabbath Evening

The woman to her spouse [more]

Found In: Friday Evening

Tags: at the shabbat table, eshet hayil, Ruth Brin

Making Shabbat

Family rituals for Shabbat [more]

Found In: Contemporary Shabbat Practice

Tags: at the shabbat table