The Lifetime Guide to the Jewish Holidays: Abundant Ways to Bring the Joy, Meaning and Relevance of Celebration Into Your Home and Heart Year After Year

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The Lifetime Guide to the Jewish Holidays presents a diversity of ways to understand and bring the joy, meaning and relevance of Jewish holiday celebration into readers' homes and hearts, whether they are observing for the first or the fiftieth time.
While easily accessible to the beginner, the multi-dimensions Guide has something even for those long experienced in Jewish tradition. Including the rational underpinnings, historic connections and humane values--along with the special sounds, tastes and rituals--of every feast, fast, and commemorative day on the calendar, it provides the ingredients for both positive emotional experience and inspiring intellectual appeal.

Fully based in classic Jewish teachings, this trans-denominational resource will benefit parents, educators, and the children they expose to the joys of Judaism through holiday celebration.

For every holiday, the book includes a history lesson, personal growth opportunity, explanation of ritual items used, information on how and where to observe, preparation guidance, customs, traditional foods, folk and liturgical music, stories with holiday values, a moral message, halakhah, relevant fine art and music, museums and tourist sites, and references for further exploration.