Mentoring

Shabbat

• Conduct Shabbat Table Service
  • Light the candles
  • Chant Friday evening Kiddush
  • Wash hands with blessing
  • Bless children
  • Bless spouse/partner
  • Sing Shabbat songs (zemirot)
  • Chant birkat hamazon
  • Enjoy a Friday Shabbat dinner service with a host family
  • Chant the Havdallah service
• Home Rituals
  • Affix a mezuzah to a doorpost with the blessing
  • Make my home kosher

Holiday (Yom Tov) Rituals

• Chant the Kiddush for Rosh Hashanah, Sukkot, Passover, and Shavuot
• Blow the shofar
• Perform Tashlich
• Build a sukkah
• Shake the lulav and estrog
• Light Hanukkah candles and chant blessings
• Prepare home for Passover
• Conduct a Passover seder

Create a Shabbat or Holiday Environment in your Home

• Holiday activities for children
• Special holiday recipes and meals

Synagogue Skills

• Take an aliyah
• Put on tallit and tefilin, with appropriate blessings
• Recite the mourner’s Kaddish
• Choreography of the Shabbat morning service
  (types of prayers and their significance, when to stand, sit, chant out loud, read silently)
• Overview of Shabbat evening service (types of prayers and their significance, songs)
• Participate in morning or evening minyan
• Chant from Torah (tutors available for fee, mentors available for final check-up)
• Chant a Haftorah (tutors available for fee, mentors available for final check-up)

Life Cycle

• Baby naming
• Brit Milah (circumcision)
• Bar/Bat Mitzvah
• Wedding
• Mourning rituals—Chevra Kadisha, funeral, shiva