Recently, as my mother’s yahrzeit – anniversary of her death – came around I wondered: Was I going to New York to pray at her gravesite and recite the kaddish, or was I going to Florida to pray with ...

Upon entering the sukkah on the first night of Sukkos, one recites two berachos [at the conclusion of Kiddush]: the blessing on the sukkah (“Leishev baSukkah”) and Shehecheyanu. [Shehecheyanu is a ...

Answer: The chazzan reciting the blessing of shehecheyanu (lit., who has sustained us …) on Yom Kippur night before prayer is unusual in that this is not done as part of any other prayer service ...

Two interesting comments have come from readers about [my November 25 column][1] on the Jewish toast “l’chaim,” which I traced back to a medieval custom, still practiced by Sephardic and Middle ...

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