Shabbat at Home

• Describe the 4 steps that officially welcomes Shabbat into the home- who does this?

  1. Woman lights the 2 of the candles

  2. She then waves/beckons with her arms around the candles

  3. Closes her eyes to say a blessing

  4. says a prayer asking God to bless the family
• How is Shabbat celebrated in the home after the Friday evening service?

  The family shares a special meal
• What happens before the meal? (2)

  < Parents bless their children

  < head of household recites the Kiddush blessings while holding the Kiddush cup
• What happens to begin the meal?

  Bread is blessed and passed to everyone
• What is the Kiddush?

  A ceremony of prayer and blessing over wine, performed by the head of a Jewish household at the meal ushering in the Sabbath
• How is the end of Shabbat marked?

  The havdalah service