Hanukkah Prayers: How to Say the Menorah Blessings - Chabad.org
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.
Anita Diamant • Saying Kaddish: How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead, and Mourn as a Jew
Music sweetens the harsh judgements. When you sing the words of the prayers in a clear, bright voice, the Shechinah is robed in radiant garments, and this is how the harsh judgements are sweetened (42).
Rabbi Nathan of Breslov • Advice - Likutey Etzot
Immediately after I light my candles, it is as if I flicked a switch that turned Shabbat on in the world,
Blu Greenberg • How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household
the mitzvot in this understanding gain an irreplaceable urgency that embodies delight, companionship in times of joy and sorrow, at our waking, and throughout our days.
Rabbi Bradley Shavit DHL Artson • God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology
In Judaism, eating is a spiritual practice, sanctified by benedictions before and after the meal, which are intended to bring mindfulness and intentionality to what might otherwise be a mere gustatory
Nehemia Polen • Stop, Look, Listen: Celebrating Shabbos through a Spiritual Lens
And I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all that are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee: 7 the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy-seat that is thereupon, and all the furniture of the Tent, 8 and the table
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