1/2/26 - FRIDAY evening - SHABBAT STARTS.

KABBALAT PANIM: HOME/SHUL.

Welcome (2).

Personal Supplication.

A Prayer for Lightening Shabbat Candles by Merle Feld.

Candle Lighting with Blessing & Poems (2).

Meditation Following Candle-lighting.

Where Has This Week Vanished (1).

Gratitude (3).

Shabbat Songs (2).

Greeting the Heavenly Guests.

Blessing Those at Our Table.

Kiddush for Shabbat Evening.

Hand Washing.

Hamotzi / Double Challah with Cover.

KABBALAT SHABBAT: SHUL.

Song of Songs.

Y'Did Nefesh.

Psalms 95-99, 29.

Ana, B'Kho-ah.

L'chah Dodi.

Psalm 92-93.

Mourners Kaddish 

Lamdeini, Elohai.

Shabbat Study Texts.

MAARIV:

Shema with Blessings  / Alternative Blessing (1).

Biblical Sanctification of the Day.

Amidah with Symbolic Repetition.

The Giving Of Thanks. [NEW]

Aleinu.

Mourners Kaddish.

Psalm 27.

Concluding Song.

Ki Eshm'rah Shabbat.

Yitgal.

SABBATH EVE MEAL & EVE Zemiros  [NEW] 

BEDTIME SHEMA:

Master of the Universe.

Hamapil.

Shema - Det. 6:4-9.

Psalm 91.

Psalm 3:2-9.

Hashkiveinu.

Blessed is Hashem by Day.

Verses that recall God's Blessings and Protection.

Psalm 128.

Adon Olam.

Berakhot 16B Concluding Prayer (1).

SHABBAT MORNING:

Modeh Ani & There Is Grace.

Washing Hands (Twice) [1st within 4 Cubits of the Bed].

Asher Yatzar & Reform Poem (2).

Elohai Neshama  & Reform Poem (2).

In-Person Services at GATES OF PRAYER.

In-Person Torah Study at GATES OF PRAYER.

Mah Tovu - מַה טּוֹבוּ אֹהָלֶיךָ יַעֲקֹב מִשְׁכְּנֹתֶיךָ יִשְׂרָאֵל

A Meditation Before Prayer.

Tallit Blessing.

BIRKCHOT HASHACHAR:

Blessings for a New Day.

Penitential Prayer.

B'rakhot Before Studying Torah & Passages of Study (4).

Concluding Prayer.

Psalm 92.

Psalm 27.

Psalm 30.

P'SUKEI D'ZIMRAH:

Baruch She-Amar.

David's Prayer - Dedication of the Ark.

Anthology of Verses.

Psalm 19, 34, 90, 91, 135, 136, 33, 92 & 93.

God's Sovereignty.

145, 146-150 +Bless Adonai Always.

David's Final Prayer.

Song of the Sea.

Nishmat.

Yishtabach.

SHEMA & Its Blessings.

Women With Their Timbrels.

Shabbat Morning Amidah.

"Grant me the liberating joy of Shabbat..." by Nahman of Bratzlav.

Personal Prayers Before the Open Ark.

Mystical Prayer Before the Open Ark.

Shabbat Torah Service.

Haftarah Reading.

Yekum Purkan. 

Prayers for Peace/State of Israel/Our Country/Mi Shebeirach.

Ashrei.

Musaf Amidah.

Concluding Prayers:

Ein Keiloheinu.

A Final Teaching. 

Aleinu.

A Song of Glory.

Adon Olam.

Forget Not Shabbat.

Song of Choice.

SHABBAT MINCHA:

Washing Hands.

Selections from The Songs of Ascent.

Excerpts from Psalm 104.

Ashrei.

Uva L'Tziyon.

Amidah - with extra beginning & extra supplication to follow.

Tzidkat'kha - Psalm 119:142; 71:19; 36:7.

Psalm 23.

Pirkei Avot Study (5 paragraph).

Aleinu.

Three Torah Blessings / Numbers 6:24-26; Peah 1:1; Shabbat 127A.

The Torah - A Modern Commentary URJ] - 1 cycle completed...3 min lines of text daily with corresponding text with no vowels. 

Talmud (Koren) (2 pages).

A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice by Klein (2 pages).

Section of Pirket Avot (1 section). 

Kashrut:

- No pork and no shellfish, no game meat and no imitations; only permitted fish, fowl & meat.

- No foods with blood as an ingredient / effort to rid the meat of any visible blood & avoiding the hindquarter.

- Checking eggs for blood spots and vegetables and fruit for bugs; no gelatin.

- No meat and dairy together (6/3 hour separation rule) & no imitation of either with the other.

- Kosher wine only & Yayin Mevushal; Pas Israel; Bishul Yisrael; Marit Ayin.

- All food at home to be eaten on disposable paper plates and with disposable utensils.

- No veal (Tza'ar ba'alei chayim); no fish and meat together.

- Daily kitchen cleaning with exception of Shabbat; making sure food properly covered.

Tefillah, Shabbat and Jewish Calendar:

- Follow Jewish Calendar, celebrate Holidays and adhere to religious fasts + adhere to prayer attributes of each particular event; participate in all Bar/Bat Mitzvas in my Synagogue.

- Following Zmanim.

- Using combination of Mishkan T'Filah, Sim Shalom, Lev Shalom and ArtScroll Siddurim.

- Kabbalat Shabbat/Family Dinner & Shabbat Morning Services Attendance.

- Sunday Shacharit Minyan Attendance & Monday-Friday Twice Min Minyan Attendance.

- Weekly Shabbat Group Torah Study & Daily Study of Laws of Shabbat.

- Bowing (Berakhot 12B) & feet alignment (Berakhot 10B) during Amidah.

- Tallit worn during each morning prayer, and covering one's head during Amidah when Tallit worn.

- No food or drink (except for water) min 20 minutes before Shacharit, Mincha and Maariv...management of what is eaten within a 2 hour period prior to prayer in order to avoid drowsiness.

- Recite daily at least 10 prayers in Hebrew (no repetitions) & 1 full Amidah daily in Hebrew.

- Birkat Hamazon & Blessings: Bread, Grains, Fruit, Vegetables & Other Foods.

- Never exit the sanctuary with the one's back towards the Torah; hurry towards the synagogue/class/Torah/prayer...and move away slowly.

- Shabbat restrictions on: income work, business transactions, electronics/phone/electricity usage, fire kindling, driving, money use, carrying, creating/destroying, activities involving evolving change/start/finish point, building/tool usage, writing, planning, cooking, washing, repairing/sewing/tearing, planting/gardening/harvesting and involvement in regular chores; rules surrounding the Muktzeh.

- Shalosh Seudos; Zemiros for Shabbos; Separation of Challah; Compensatory Blessings; Amelioration of a Dream; Verses For People's Names.

- Study of Mesadrim & the flow of Shabbat liturgy / acceptance of honors / synagogue involvement/volunteering.

- Tsitsit in Baruch She'Amar, 3rd part of Shema & Emet; Holiday Musaf. 

- B'Rakhot of Gratitude: Wonders of Nature, Storm/Thunder, Rainbow, Mountain/River/Comet, Ocean. Trees Bloom, Striking Beauty, the Unusual, Healthy Friends, Friends after a year of absence., Those who Study the Torah, Those with Worldy Wisdom,  Righteous Government, Good/Bad News, Place with a Miracle, Smelling Perfumes, Wearing New Clothes & Shehecheyanu.  

- Traveler's Prayer, Prayer for Tranquility, Prayer Upon Recovery from Illness & Upon a Loss.

- Daily: Tehillim Reading 1-150 series (1) and a Midrash; Monthly: 

Other:

- Mezuzot: on all outside doors/daily contact/check; Parapet Blessing.

- No shaving with a razor [Leviticus 19:27], nor removing completely the hair on the side of the head.

- Shomer Negiah & Monthly Mikvah.

- Shmirah Volunteering & Shiva Sitting.

- Jewish Speech Rules as per Greenburg in "Jewish Household," & Deuteronomy 23:10-15.

- Daily fulfillment of min 1 Eilu D'Varim deed & Weekly Tzedakah, Shaliach Mitzvah & Daily Focus on Shalom Bayit.

- 1 new book a month related to Judaism; daily read of 1 piece of information on NLI; study of Trope.