The Complete How to Handbook of Jewish Living Book

	Preface	v
	Basic Berachot	1
	The Rubrics of Prayer	11
	How to Make Aliyah to the Torah	15
	Putting on Tefillin	18
	Putting on a Tallit	25
	Baking and Braiding a Challah for Shabbat	29
	Lifting and Tying a Torah	32
	Chanting the Haftarah Blessings and Haftarah Trope	35
	Chanting the Torah	41
	Birkhat Ha-gomel	145
	Night Prayer--Keriat Shema al Hameeta	47
	How to Light the Sabbath Candles	49
	How to Make Shabbat Evening Kiddush	52
	How to Make Havdalah	57
	Blowing a Shofar	61
	Tossing Tashlich	64
	Building a Sukkah	65
	The Four Species: Assembling the Lulav	67
	Waving the Lulav	70
	Lighting a Chanukiyah	73
	How to Play the Dreidel Game	77
	The Search for Chametz	79
	Making Matzah	82
	Setting the Seder Table	84
	Leading the Seder	86
	Counting the Omer	89
	Leading Birkat Hamazon	92
	Lighting the Memorial Candle	97
	How to Read a Tombstone	101
	Putting Up a Mezuzah	104
	How to Dance the Hora	106
	Making a Jewish Family Tree	108
	How to Visit the Sick	111
	Tzedakah and Doing Deeds of Kindness	113
	Finding the Meaning of Your Hebrew Name	115
	Instant Information	118
	Synagogue Geography	118
	39 Labors Traditionally Prohibited on Shabbat	120
	What to Avoid on Pesach	122
	Prohibited/Permitted Foods	124
	Rules for Kashrut	127
	Books of the Bible	130
	Parashat Hashavuah: Weekly Torah/Haftarah Readings	133
	The Hebrew (Luni-Solar) Calendar	138
	Alef-Bet	141
	Basic Modern Hebrew Vocabulary	143
	Greetings for Shabbat, Holiday and Everyday	145
	The Ten Commandments	147
	Thirteen Principles of Faith	149
	Maimonides' Eight Degrees of Tzedakah	152
	Singing Hatikvah	154
	How to Locate Twelve Important Places in Israel	156
	Psalm for Pilgrimage to Jerusalem	159
	Tefillat Haderech	161
	Kaddish Derabbanan	163
	Giving a Devar Torah	169
	Arranging Aliyot or, How to Be a Gabbai	172
	How to Tell If a Torah Is Kosher, Tallit and Tefillin Too!	177
	Finding Dates on a Hebrew (Soli-Lunar) Calendar	179
	When to Say Amen and Mean It	184
	Announcing the New Month	186
	Blessing the Sun	188
	Blessing the Moon	191
	Entertaining Bride and Groom	195
	Doing Gematria	200
	Making a Misheberach	202
	A Parent's Prayer for Bar/Bat Mitzvah	205
	How to Make a Blessing or Say a Prayer	207
	Saying Selichot	209
	Starting a Jewish Library at Home	211
	Choosing a Religious School	213
	How to Celebrate a Simchah	216
	How to Welcome Friends and Neighbors into Your Home (Or: Rules for Jewish Etiquette)	218
	How to Give Tzedakah	220
	How to Arrange for a Brit Milah (Circumcision)	222
	How to Arrange for a Simchat Bat (Female Hebrew Naming and Covenant Ceremony)	226
	How to Arrange for a Pidyon Haben (Redemption of Firstborn Son)	229
	Family Blessings	234
	Preparing for Shabbat	236
	Getting Ready for Rosh Hashanah	238
	How to Construct Your Own Theology	241
	Planning a Jewish Trip	243
	How to Bury Ritual Objects of Place Them in a Genizah	246
	Making a Shivah Call	248
	Sitting Shivah and Observing Sheloshim	250
	How to Write a Condolence Letter	253
	How to Prepare an Ethical Will	255
	How to Write a Living Will	257
	Saying Yizkor	261
	How to Take a Dip in the Mikvah	264
	How to Save the Planet	267
	Avoiding the Evil Eye	269
	Doing Teshuva	271
	How to Be a Mentsch	273
	How to Bring the Mashiach!	274
	Instant Information
	Angels and Demons	277
	The Twenty-Third Psalm	279
	Mourner's Kaddish	281
	Hallel Psalms	284
	Order of the Prayer Service	291
	The Twelve Tribes of Israel	295
	The Ketubah	297
	Jewish Divorce: The Get	302
	Hakafot for Simchat Torah	307
	Who's Who and What's What on a Page of ...?	312
	Jewish Acronyms	316
	Jewish Surnames and Their Meanings	320
	Rashi Script	322
	Who's Who in the Bible	323
	The 613 Commandments	328
	Magazines, Newspapers and Journals	350
	Videos and Video Distributors	357
	The Electronic Arts	360
	Extra Holiday How To's
	Making (International) Charoset	363
	Baking Hamantaschen	366
	Making Etrog Jam	368
	Sending Mishlo'ach Manot	370
	Making Cheese Blintzes	372
	Making a Tu Bishevat Seder	374
	Dipping Apples in Honey (and Not Getting Stuck)	378
	Life Cycle Checklists	380
	How to
	Interpret Dreams	387
	Ameliorate a Bad Dream	389
	Add Meaning to the Bar/Bat Mitzvah Party	393
	Prepare a Meaningful Passover Family Seder	395
	Celebrate Lag B'Omer	398
	Improve Your Derekh Eretz	400
	Annul a Vow	402
	Choose a Synagogue	404
	Do Ushpizin for Sukkot	406
	Spiritualize Your Morning Waking Moments	408
	Kasher a Home	410
	Behave in a Synagogue	414
	Count a Minyan	417
	Devise a Mitzvah Performance Plan	419
	Do Jewish Meditation	422
	Make a Havdalah Kit	424
	Move Toward Greater Shabbat Observance	427
	Observe Yom Hashoah	432
	Personalize a Bar/Bat Mitzvah	434
	Plan a Spiritual Trip to Israel	437
	Pray with Kavannah	440
	Start a Study Chavurah	443
	Talk to Your Kids About God	446
	Use the Book of Pslams	449
	Choose a Religious School	452
	Teach Civic Responsibility	455
	Explain Death to Children	457
	Honor the Memory of the Deceased	459
	Do an Unveiling	461
	Do a Taharah	463
	Instant Information
	Seven Laws of Noah	466
	Psalm 31: Woman of Valor	468
	Shalom Aleikhem	470
	Jewish Ethical Advice	473
	Redeeming Captives	476
	The Biblical Precepts Relevant to the Founding of the United States	478
	Who's Who in Bible Commentators	481
	Rabbinic Remedies for Illness	484
	Prophets of the Bible	486
	Names of God	494
	Jewish Numerology	497
	Jewish Superstitions	500
	Notable Quotations from the Bible	502
	Best Times to Get Married	503
	The Confessional	505
	Sing Hava Nagilah	507
	Who's Who in Rabbinic Commentators	509
	Sephardic Customs	512
	Twenty-Year Calendar of Jewish Holidays	516
	Sabbath Table Songs	521
	Healing Prayers, including Mi Sheberakh Prayers	525
	Basic Jewish Library	528
	Avoiding Lashon Hara	532
	Basic Terms in Kabbalah	534
	Books of the Talmud	537
	Fifteen Morning Blessings	541
	Healing Psalms	547
	Index	561