Communal Customs I

Catalog description

Explore, trace, analyze, and classify Minhagim (Jewish customs) pertaining to Friday-night prayers and rituals, festivals (Rosh Chodesh, Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and other fasts, Sukkot, and Chanuka), life-cycle events (birth through Bar/Bat Mitzvah), and the home (kashrut, health and hygiene). Understand authority of minhag, distinction from Halakha (Jewish law), and impact of both internal and external factors. Customs as a source of and resolution to conflict.