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🇮🇱 Jerusalem, IsraelPassoverפסח A Jewish spring festival celebrating freedom from slavery with ritual mealsSpiritual · Dinner

🇮🇱 Jerusalem, IsraelPassover Sederסדר פסח A ritual meal opening Passover, told over wine, matzah and symbolic foodsSpiritual · Feasts and festival meals

🇮🇱 IsraelKiddushקידוש A blessing over wine or grape juice that marks Shabbat and festivals as holySpiritual · Tea, coffee and drinking ceremonies

🇮🇱 Israel and 5 moreChallahחַלָּה A braided Jewish bread, blessed and shared at Shabbat and holiday tablesTable custom · Feasts and festival meals

🇮🇶 IraqShabbat mealsסעודות שבת Three ritual meals eaten across the Jewish Sabbath from Friday sunset to Saturday nightTable custom · Dinner 🇸🇾 Syria and 1 moreThree Sundays of Commemoration A Maronite Christian observance held on the three Sundays before Lent to remember the departed.Spiritual · Dinner

🇮🇱 Jerusalem, IsraelChallah cover A cloth used to cover braided bread loaves on the Shabbat table in Ashkenazi Jewish tradition.Spiritual · Dinner

🇮🇱 Jerusalem, Israel and 1 moreHoshana Rabbahהוֹשַׁעְנָא רַבָּה The seventh and final day of Sukkot, marked by seven synagogue processions and night-long study.Festival · Dinner

🇮🇱 IsraelEve of Passover on Shabbatערב פסח Special Jewish calendar customs when the eve of Passover coincides with the SabbathSeasonal · Dinner

🇮🇱 Safed, Israel and 2 moreZemirotזמירות Jewish table hymns sung during the three meals of Shabbat and holidaysSpiritual · Dinner

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Passover Seder: Unknown author, Public domain, source
Kiddush: Dimitri, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Hoshana Rabbah: Unknown author, Public domain, source
Passover: User:RadRafe~commonswiki, Public domain, source
Eve of Passover on Shabbat: בעלת הזכויות - טלי אמתי, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Zemirot: ביקורת, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Shabbat meals: Yoninah, Public domain, source

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