Orthodox Judaism

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Named among the spices of the temple compound, and the same aromatic the gospels record being poured out at Bethany.

The hexagram became the sign of the Jewish community in Europe only in the modern period, adopted as a communal and later a national emblem. It has no liturgical office and no rite calls for it.

The fringed prayer shawl is worn by adult men at the morning service, and by a groom from marriage in most Ashkenazi custom.

The small four cornered garment is worn under the shirt through the day so that the commandment of the fringes is kept and not only at prayer.

Bound on the arm and the head at the weekday morning service, containing the four passages written by hand on parchment.

The burial place of the patriarchs and matriarchs, and the second holiest site in Judaism after the Temple Mount.

The ban was pronounced by the Portuguese congregation of Amsterdam in 1656 and has never been lifted; requests to lift it have been considered and declined.

The Ashkenazi ban on polygamy and on divorcing a wife without her consent has bound Ashkenazi Jewry for a thousand years and is treated as settled law.

The site of the Temple and the direction toward which Jewish prayer is said. The rabbinate has held since 1967 that Jews may not ascend, because the position of the holy of holies is uncertain and the purification required to enter it cannot now be performed.

The plaza is administered as an Orthodox synagogue, with men and women separated by a partition under the authority of the rabbi of the wall.

A married woman covers her hair. The scarf is one of the accepted forms and the choice between them is a matter of community custom.

The scrolls are kept in a cabinet on the wall facing Jerusalem, and the congregation stands when it is opened.

The Torah is read by the accents, which carry the phrasing and the syntax as well as the tune.

Written by hand on parchment by a trained scribe, and disqualified for use by a single missing or malformed letter.

The fringes are the commandment; the garment exists to carry them, which is why a four cornered undergarment is worn to make the obligation possible.

Uriel stands in front of the sleeper in the bedtime Shema formula, the fourth of the four archangels the Ashkenazi rite names.

The pointer keeps the reader's hand off the parchment and keeps the place in a text written without vowels or punctuation.

Rabbinic tradition holds the Ark to have been hidden before the first temple fell rather than destroyed or carried off, and makes no claim to possess it. The Torah ark of a synagogue is named for it and is not it.

Orthodox Judaism refuses the platform outright, since it denies the binding force of the commandments that Orthodox practice exists to keep.

The Talmud itself carries an argument over whether the constellations govern Israel, and Maimonides ruled judicial astrology a falsehood, so the tradition holds a live criticism alongside older passages that take the stars seriously.

Tzedakah is a duty of justice rather than an act of generosity, and the word does not mean charity.

The Amidah is said standing, silently, and then repeated aloud by the reader where a quorum is present.

Avinu Malkeinu is said in the penitential season and on fast days.

A boy becomes obligated at thirteen and reads from the Torah. A girl becomes obligated at twelve, and the manner in which that is publicly marked varies widely across this body and is not a Torah reading.

The groom veils the bride before the ceremony.

The search for leaven is made by candlelight on the night before Passover eve.

The grace after meals is said in full after any meal with bread.

Brit Milah is performed by a mohel on the eighth day, and the day is not moved for convenience.

Burial is in the earth, without embalming, ordinarily within a day.

The hazzan leads congregational prayer as the shaliach tzibbur, the community's emissary, a standard office in Orthodox synagogue life.

Israel's election at Sinai for the Torah and its commandments is affirmed in essentially its classical, particularist form.

The marriage is solemnised under the canopy.

Orthodox practice holds brit milah on the eighth day without exception unless the child's health forbids, performed by a trained mohel with blessings and the naming, and the day is not deferred for the Sabbath or a festival.

Coming of age is a matter of obligation taking effect at a fixed age rather than of a ceremony conferring it.

The covenant at Sinai is read as binding in its own terms, obligating this people to the commandments as given.

Creation from nothing by divine will is held, following the classical rabbinic and medieval Jewish philosophical reading of the opening of Genesis.

The judge of a rabbinical court sits under the law of the Shulchan Aruch's Choshen Mishpat, which governs the constitution of a beit din, the competence required of those who sit on it and the procedure it follows.

Elohai Neshamah is said on waking.

The public fasts of the calendar are kept, the two full fasts from sunset to nightfall and the four minor fasts from dawn.

The gabbai assigns Torah honours and corrects the public reading in Orthodox synagogue services.

Acts of loving kindness are held as one of the pillars on which the world stands, and the obligation is unlimited in a way that charity is not.

Conversion requires acceptance of the commandments before a rabbinic court, circumcision where applicable, and immersion, and conversions performed outside this body are not recognised.

Hakafot are made with the Torah scrolls on Simchat Torah.

Halakha is held divinely given at Sinai and binding in its full detail, the classical Orthodox position.

Hashkiveinu is said at the evening service.

Hoshanot are said with the four species on each day of Sukkot.

Kabbalat Shabbat opens the Sabbath on Friday evening.

Orthodox observance keeps the full detail: separate dishes and sinks for meat and dairy, a waiting period after meat before dairy, reliance on recognised rabbinic supervision for processed food, and separate arrangements for Passover.

Visiting the graves of parents and of the righteous is customary before the High Holy Days.

Betrothal and marriage, once separate by a year, are performed together under the canopy.

A garment is torn by the mourners.

Maariv is prayed at night.

Marriage is contracted by the giving of an object of value in the presence of two witnesses, and it is followed by the seven blessings.

Orthodox kashrut certification agencies and yeshivos both maintain the mashgiach office in its two senses.

The Masoretic Text is held as the authoritative Hebrew text of the Tanakh.

The dead are remembered at Yizkor on four days of the year.

A personal Messiah and the rebuilding of the Temple are awaited literally, per Maimonides' twelfth principle of faith.

Midrashic literature is held as authoritative rabbinic interpretation of scripture.

Immersion is required for conversion, for family purity, and for vessels bought from a non-Jew.

Mincha is prayed in the afternoon.

The Mishnah, the Talmud's foundational layer, is held as authoritative rabbinic tradition reaching back to Sinai.

Maimonides' Mishneh Torah is held as an authoritative code of Jewish law.

The commandments are held as divine obligations, six hundred and thirteen of them, and their performance is the ordinary shape of a Jewish life.

Circumcision and the fitness of the one who performs it are governed by the Shulchan Aruch's Yoreh De'ah, which fixes the rite, its timing and the conditions under which it may be deferred.

Orthodox mohelim perform brit milah as the father's halakhic agent.

The Mourner's Kaddish is said for eleven months by a child for a parent, and it requires a quorum.

Musaf is prayed on Sabbaths, new moons and festivals, and it asks in plain words for the restoration of the Temple and its offerings.

Halakha as binding and divinely given, developed by authorised interpretation but not subject to revision on other grounds.

Orthodox authorities retain the requirement of chalitzah in full, and Israeli courts can imprison a refusing brother in law.