Food is a source of sustenance and pleasure. It brings us together around the table for holiday feasts and simple weekday meals. Baking challah with an old family recipe reminds us how food connects us to time and tradition. Trying an international dish at a new restaurant or growing our own tomatoes can show us the complex relationship between food and place. All of this is remarkable, providing so many reasons to pause and offer a blessing.Â
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Revised traditional “Harakhaman” for a baby naming
For optional incorporation into a baby naming ceremony
An expression of mindfulness of and gratitude for farm workers
Blessings phrased in the traditional masculine and alternative feminine God-language
Abbreivated grace after meals based on Brachot 40b, music by Rabbi Shefa Gold
To be inserted at the same point as one would add for Hanukkah or Purim
A modern interpretation of the three original core themes of the ancient blessings after a meal
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.
Sephardic recipes for Rosh Hashanah and blessings for special foods for the holiday
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