When entering a synagogue

Putting on the tallit

How to put on tefillin

The amidah

How to have an aliyah to the Torah 

How to understand the various forms of Jewish Literature

How to do hagbah and gelilah

Reciting kaddish

How to lead davening: Audio Siddur, Virtual Cantor,

How to chant Torah & Haftara: Trop Tutor, Navigating the Bible, Torah and Haftara, Special Event Chanting

Shabbat

How to add to the Shabbat acts not done during the week 

How to do Candle lighting

How to do Shabbat table rituals

How to do a d'var torah

How to do Shabbat Songs (z'mirot), Z'mirot

How to do the Shabbat Day (including the afternoon kiddush, cholent recipies, Shabbat afternoon activities for kids, the third meal)

How to do havdalah

How to subtract from the Shabbat acts done during the week

What we refrain from on Shabbat

The Toronto eiruv

How to observe Shabbat with non-observant Housemates 

Shabbat as a Secular Day? That, too.

Daily living

How to hang a m'zuza

How to tie tzitzit

How to make your house kosher

Doing a meal with bread

Food without bread

Blessings for the other senses: sight, hearing, smell and touch

Using the mikvah

When a loved one is dying

Holidays

How to prepare for the High Holy Days

How to make a shofar

How to blow shofar

How to conduct Rosh HaShana dinner 

How to do the special Rosh HaShana foods

How to build a sukkah

How to light Hanukah candles and Multimedia Presentation

How to play dreidel

How to Make Ready for Pesach

Conducting your own seder

Starting Passover on Saturday night

How to count the omer with Homer

 

If you have other questions, please contact any of our clergy:

Rabbi Baruch Frydman Kohl (416-781-3514, ext 228) Rabbi Roy D. Tanenbaum (416-781-3514, ext 219) Rabbi Sean C. Gorman (416-781-3514, ext 247)

Hazzan Simon Spiro (416-781-3514, ext 223) Lorne Hanick, Ritual Director (416-781-3514, ext 240)

A good how-to sourcebook with explanations, suitable for your home library is: Isaac Klein, A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice (New York: JTS, 1979). Click HERE to order.

Other how-to links: 

• Chanting the Bible Trop tutor
• Navigating the Bible Online Torah and Haftara tutor 
• Lead and Read Special trop for:

Rosh Hashanah

Yom Kippur

Purim

Tish'a Be'av

• How-to guides Interactives from My Jewish Learning

Shabbat Prayer & Study Baby Ceremonies Bar/Bat Mitzvah Jewish Household Conversion

All Multimedia Holidays Death & Mourning Parents & Children Nature & Environment Ethics & Behavior Other

• Ask the Rabbi an archive of questions from the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem
• Ask the Rabbi Beth Tzedec questions and answers
• Pesah Potpourri On the Origin and Development of Some Lesser-Known Pesah Customs from Rabbi David Golinkin, President, the Schecter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem