Friday, May 4, 2012
Traditions - Shabbat
I think traditions are so important in a family. They do not need to be religious - just something that the kids can expect to happen, look forward to and that brings the family together. We have a lot of religious and non-religious traditions that we try to follow. Our most common religious tradition is shabbat. Every friday night, either at our home or a relatives or friends house, we say a prayer to light two candles, my husband then blesses each child (in age order), we say a prayer over the wine and finally a prayer over challah. We then eat dinner and try to reflect on the past week. When my husband and I were first dating we would do our "highs and lows of the day." We would each tell the other one great thing that happened (the high) and one not so great thing (the low). As our lives got more and more hectic we reduced the frequency to the "highs and lows of the week." Very often the high is - "I jumped so high." And the low is - "I fell down." Or the high and the low were things that happened that day. We then try to give some suggestions. "Maybe your high could be your birthday party that was on Sunday." What I like about it, is that we all get to express how are time that week has been. We get to connect to one another - which is something so special - I hope we keep up with all of our shabbat practices.
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religious,
traditions
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