Hanukkah Prayers: How to Say the Menorah Blessings - Chabad.org

Singing together creates sacred space; it carries forward the great biblical mandate mentioned above to settle in place and form the “House of Israel.”

How might we make Shabbos even more radiant, more beautiful, more transformative? The answer surely has little to do with elegance of table settings or sumptuousness of cuisine, and everything to do with palpable blessing and sanctity, with welcoming smiles, with sweet melodies, with wise speech and even wiser silence.

Typically, the ba’al habayit, the head of household, will ask a guest to lead the Grace.

Syllable by syllable, shoulder to shoulder, Kaddish is a sigh that affirms the core beliefs and dreams of the Jewish people: God is beyond us. Understanding is beyond us. Holiness and beauty are all around us, but beyond us, too. We have work to do. There is hope. Peace is possible.

The tradition mandates saying Kaddish, with clear directions about how, where, and when it should be said.