Minhag (Hebrew: מנהג "custom", classical pl. מנהגות, modern pl. מנהגים, minhagim) is an accepted tradition or group of traditions in Judaism. A related...

Minhag Morocco (Hebrew:מנהג מרוקו) refers to the religious customs adopted by Moroccan Jewry, from the Hebrew "Minhag", or custom. Although in the Middle...

Minhag Ashkenaz is the minhag of the Ashkenazi German Jews. Minhag Ashkenaz was common in Germany, Austria, the Czech lands, and elsewhere in Western Europe...

Minhag Polin/Minhag Lita (Polish/Lithuanian/Prague rite) is the Ashkenazi minhag of the Polish Jews, the Polish/Lithuanian or Eastern branch of Nusach...

The Eretz Israel minhag, (Hebrew: נוסח ארץ ישראל, translit: Nusach Eretz Yisrael translation: "Rite or Prayer Service of The Land of Israel") as opposed...

and traditions of Sephardi Judaism (but with some differences among the minhag "customs" of particular communities). That has resulted in a conflation...

Minhag America is a siddur created in 1857 by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise that was intended to address conflict between sides supporting and opposing traditionalism...

consistent with these customs. A theory grew up that custom trumps law (see Minhag): this had some Talmudic support, but was not nearly so prominent in Arabic...

component buttressing Orthodox and other practice is local or familial custom, Minhag. The development and acceptance of customs as binding, more than disagreements...

Bereavement in Judaism (Hebrew: אֲבֵלוּת, avelut, "mourning") is a combination of minhag (traditions) and mitzvah (commandments) derived from the Torah and Judaism's...

Muʾassasat ar-Risāla, Beirut, 1996. Bd. IV, S. 300. Digitalisat Ibn Taimīya: Minhāǧ as-sunna an-nabawīya. Ed. Muḥammad Rašād Sālim. Ǧamiʿat al-Imām Muḥammad...

Ovadia Yosef (Hebrew: עובדיה יוסף, romanized: Ovadya Yosef, Arabic: عبد الله يوسف, romanized: ‘Abd Allāh Yūsuf; September 24, 1920 – October 7, 2013) was...

Kabbalah Panentheism History Practices Torah study Mystical exegesis Mitzvot Minhag Customary immersion in mikveh Meditation Kavanot Teshuvah Deveikut Prayer...

1486 Ḥelek me-ha-maḥzor kefi minhag k”k Roma, Bologna 1540 Maḥzor ke-minhag Roma, Mantua 1557 Siddur mebarekhah: ke-minhag k”k Italiani, Venice 1618 Siddur...

Jerusalem Talmud instead of the Babylonian Talmud (see Eretz-Yisrael minhag). This Minhag was once widespread in Southern Italy, the Balkans, Greece, Anatolia...

of Isaiah Horowitz, and many others, give the piyyutim according to the Minhag of Ashkenaz and Poland. Like other Jewish ethnic groups, the Ashkenazi originate...

German or Western branch - Minhag Ashkenaz - used in Western and Central Europe, and the Polish/Lithuanian or Eastern branch - Minhag Polin - used in Eastern...

practices instituted by the rabbis not based (directly) on the commandments Minhag: Customs, community practices, and customary law, as well as the exemplary...

brings forth bread from the earth"). The bread (one or two, depending on minhag) is sliced (or torn) and salted, and the pieces are distributed to each...

and new observances established in a piecemeal fashion, as spontaneous minhag (custom) emerging by trial and error and becoming widespread if it appealed...

melodies used in the singing of prayers. Sephardim traditionally pray using Minhag Sefarad. The term Nusach Sefard or Nusach Sfarad does not refer to the liturgy...

believed that opponents like Rabbi Yosef Karo likely repented of changing minhag at the end of his life. Dealing with the widespread practice of hiring gentiles...

of the community, including the musical rendition. It is one example of minhag, which includes traditions on Jewish customs of all types. Nusach Ashkenaz...

a small sum of money at this time of year as a token of gratitude. One minhag favors the fifth night of Hanukkah for giving Hanukkah gelt. Unlike the...

Wise submitted to the bet din the manuscript of a siddur to be titled the Minhag America and to be used by all the congregations of the country. No action...

the ArtScroll Siddur as their standard prayerbook). The African Israelite minhag, which is the cultural expression of their Judaism, uses the upper register...

authorities during the 1960s. Among Mediterranean Jews there was a longstanding minhag of considering swordfish kosher. Swordfish was and possibly still is consumed...

Italian nusach has been considered an offspring of the ancient Land of Israel minhag and it has similarities with the nusach of the Romaniote Jews of Greece...

Crete, Constantinople and Asia Minor kept the old, so-called "Romaniote minhag" and the Judaeo-Greek language. During the 19th century Yevanic switched...

international law, an aspect of international law involving the principle of custom Minhag (pl. minhagim), Jewish customs ʿUrf (Arabic: العرف), the customs of a given...