This week’s Torah portion begins: “It shall be as a consequence (eikev) of your listening to these judgments and keeping and performing them, that the Lord your God will keep for you the Covenant and ...

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The Torah does not specify the exact text of BirkatHamazon, the blessing recited after eating a meal. The Talmud, however, informs us that it comprises four blessings, authored over a period of a ...

Q: Why does the blessing over bread exempt the other foods in a meal? A: There are two reasons for this: 1) Bead is the main part of a meal, and all the other foods are secondary to it. 2) ‘Bread’ is ...

Though this year's attendance was poorer than usual, thousands participated at Monday's Birkat Kohanim at the Western Wall Plaza. Thousands participated in the first Birkat Kohanim ("priestly ...

My oldest sister knew how to sing on tune. The rest of us, no. Our family hardly ever sang Shabbat zemirot anyway, but we did sing Birkat HaMazon. Actually, the first time I heard Shabbat zemirot was ...