The traditional Jewish blessings over wine and bread, the Kiddush and the Motzi, echoed through the sanctuary at 10 HaRav Kook Street in Jerusalem. It was a room of striking simplicity — with ...

Friday night begins with a blessing over wine and Saturday evening’s Havdalah ends with the same. Wine acts as the gate for the Jewish sabbath, both welcoming and bidding farewell to the sacred.

Kiddush (referred to by Rabbi Goldstein), meaning sanctification, is the blessing recited over wine to sanctify the Sabbath (Shabbat), all Jewish holidays and most celebrations. The prayer is a ...

After comparing tasting notes about each juice variety, the students practiced reciting the Hebrew blessing over the wine. It was a kid-friendly, hands-on activity that made learning the blessing fun.

Thirty Jewish vintners and winemakers from Napa ... the “fruit of the vine,” a phrase found in the traditional blessing over wine offered every Sabbath and on holidays, and will be a ...

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(Shabbat, like all Jewish holidays, begins at sundown the previous day.) In some homes, Shabbat is “brought in” with singing, blessings for children, prayers over wine and bread, and a set table.

From the weekly Kiddush (a blessing said over a wine cup) on Shabbat to holidays ... Certainly sober people in Jewish communities have found ways around alcohol consumption, and the rest of ...

We welcome the Sabbath day in song, we bless God over the wine and the bread ... Moses or King David? The blessing that Jewish boys receive on Friday night was given in the Torah — but not ...

A kiddush cup that may have been passed around the Friday night dinner table during the reign of Ghengis Khan will be available for auction this fall. The rare remnant of the Silk Road, the ...