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How to Say Birkat Hamazon (Grace After Meals)

This blessing of thanksgiving is said after completing a meal.

How to Say El Maleh Rahamim

This prayer asking God to grant rest to departed souls is often recited at funerals.

How to Say Yigdal

This hymn, based on Maimonides' 13 principles of faith, is often sung at the conclusion of Friday night services.

How to Say the Kedushah Prayer

This prayer is traditionally recited as part of the repetition of the Amidah.

Kedushah d’Yotzeir: A Call to Holiness

This prayer invoking the heavenly angels offers key insights into the purpose of prayer and our broader responsibility as religious people.

Job

A book that challenges the rest of the Bible by asking how a good God can permit so much suffering.

Faith Took Abraham Far — Love Took Him Even Farther

The first Jew is widely regarded as a man of faith, but he was also a man of deep love.

Deborah

A warrior and prophetess, she's the only woman in the Hebrew Bible with hard political power who is portrayed positively.

Rebecca the Superheroine

Isaac's wife and Jacob's mother, the second matriarch survived a difficult pregnancy and engineered the future of the Jewish people.

The Shunamite Woman: A Model of Radical Empathy

Because she had a special relationship with the prophet Elisha, her child was miraculously conceived and miraculously resurrected.

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