Jewish Traditions : JPS Guide.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Language -- Life-Cycle Events -- The Stages of Life -- First 16 Years of Life -- Birth -- Circumcision -- Names -- Pidyon ha-Ben -- Adoption -- Bar Mitzvah -- Bat Mitzvah -- Confirmation -- Marriage -- Jewish Marriage -- Marriage Ceremony -- Harmonious Married Life -- Obligations and Rights of the Husband -- Prohibited Marriages -- Levirate Marriage/Halitzah -- Intermarriage -- Sex -- Divorce -- Death -- Death and Dying -- Angel of Death -- Preparation for Burial -- Funeral Service/Burial -- Mourning -- Suicide -- Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide -- Cremation -- Modern Issues Concerning the Dead -- Afterlife and the World to Come -- Sabbath and Festivals -- Sabbath -- Overview -- Restrictions -- Observances -- Liturgy -- Havdalah -- Special Sabbaths -- Festivals and Fasts -- Overview -- Jewish Calendar -- Rosh Hodesh -- High Holy Days -- Repentance (Teshuvah) -- Selichot -- Elul -- Rosh Hashanah -- Ten Days of Repentance -- Yom Kippur -- Fall Festivals -- Sukkot -- Hoshana Rabbah -- Shemini Atzeret -- Simchat Torah -- Winter Festivals -- Hanukkah -- Tu b'Shevat -- Purim -- Spring Festivals -- Passover -- Omer Period -- Shavuot -- Fast Days and Summer Observances -- 17th of Tammuz -- The Three Weeks -- Tisha b'Av -- Tu b'Av -- Tzom Gedalyah -- 10th of Tevet -- Synagogue and Prayer -- Synagogue -- Overview -- Synagogue Architecture -- Torah Scrolls and Ornaments -- Ark -- Bimah -- Mechitzah -- Rabbi -- Hazzan -- Prayer -- Overview -- Major Themes of Prayer -- Language of Prayer -- Proper Forms of Prayer -- Answer to Prayer -- Congregational Prayer -- Prayer as Polemic -- Siddur -- Minyan -- Kippah -- Tallit -- Tefillin -- Blessings and Benedictions -- Amen -- Kaddish -- Daily and Sabbath Prayers -- Daily Order of Prayers -- Morning Blessings (Birchot ha-Shachar) -- Pesukei de-Zimra -- Barchu.

Ahavah Rabbah/Ahavat Olam -- Shema -- Amidah -- Tachanun -- Torah Service -- Haftarah -- Av ha-Rachamim -- Yekum Purkan/Mi She Berakh -- Prayer for the Government -- U-va le-Zion Go'el -- Ein Keloheinu -- Aleinu -- Prayers Recited before Leaving the Synagogue -- Psalm of the Day -- Yigdal -- Adon Olam -- An'im Zemirot -- Personal Prayers -- Jewish Literature -- Bible -- Ten Commandments -- Masoretic Text -- Biblical Commentary -- Rabbinic Literature -- Mitzvot -- Overview -- Performance of the Mitzvot -- Obligation of Women to Perform the Commandments -- Proper Behavior and Ethical Living -- Gemilut Hasadim -- Tzedakah -- Hospitality (Hakhnasat Orchim) -- Visiting the Sick (Bikur Holim) -- Pikuach Nefesh -- Lashon ha-Ra -- Washing the Hands -- Mikveh (Ritual Bath) -- Niddah (Menstruating Woman) -- Sha'atnez (Mingling of Fabrics) -- Jewish Courts and Judges -- Business Ethics -- Prohibition against Lending at Interest -- Miscellany -- Symbols of Jews and of Israel -- Magic and Superstition -- Other Customs and Concepts -- Beards -- A Chosen People -- Conversion -- Dreams -- Excommunication -- Golem -- Heavenly Bodies -- Kissing Holy Objects -- Kitel -- The Messiah -- Mizrach -- Names of God -- Numbers -- Satan -- Shalom -- Food -- Overview -- Dietary Laws (Kashrut) -- Seven Species -- Specific Foods -- Plants and Animals -- Plants -- Trees -- Specific Plants -- Animals -- Specific Animals -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Appendix -- Weekly Torah and Haftarah Readings -- Torah Readings for Holidays and Special Sabbaths -- Orders of Mishnah and Tractates of the Talmud -- Index.

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