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Sephardi

Traditional Sephardic Mishebeirach for Naming a Daughter

With Hebrew, a traditional Sephardic blessing for a girl [more]

Found In: Covenant & Naming Rituals

Tags: naming, Sephardi

Symbolic Foods

Sephardic traditions imbuing food with meaning [more]

Found In: Blessings for Food, Holidays, Shabbat

Tags: Sephardi

Supplemental Verses to Grace After the Meal

For optional incorporation into the ceremony [more]

Found In: Covenant & Naming Rituals, Blessings for Food

Tags: birkat hamazon, Sephardi

Zeved Habat Origin

The biblical foundation of the centuries-old Sephardic tradition for welcoming a newborn girl [more]

Found In: Covenant & Naming Rituals

Tags: Sephardi, welcoming

Grace After Meals Meditation

Abbreivated grace after meals based on Brachot 40b, music by Rabbi Shefa Gold [more]

Found In: Blessings for Food

Tags: birkat hamazon, Rabbi Shefa Gold, Sephardi

Overview of Sukkot

The customs and ceremonies of the festival [more]

Found In: Sukkot

Tags: hoshana, Sephardi, sukkah

Ushpizata: Egalitarian Seder Ushpizin

A seder based on Sephardic tradition and form for welcoming the spiritual matriarchs and patriarchs to the sukkah [more]

Found In: Welcoming Guests: Ushpizin / Ushpizot

Tags: Sephardi

Culinary Prayers — "Yehi Ratzon"

A women's tradition, followed largely in the Sephardic community, that provides a tasty counterpoint to the traditional male liturgy of the High Holidays. It also provides an opportunity for celebrating Jewish women's relationship to food as a historic source of creativity and spirituality. [more]

Found In: Blessings for Food, Rosh Hashanah

Tags: Sephardi

Rosh Hashanah Recipes

Sephardic recipes for Rosh Hashanah and blessings for special foods for the holiday [more]

Found In: Rosh Hashanah

Tags: recipe, Sephardi

Celebrating Pregnancy

Describes the customs of Sephardic Jews who celebrated a woman's first pregnancy by cutting the swaddling clothes at a festive gathering of women [more]

Found In: Pregnancy

Tags: Sephardi