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Deracheha » The Life-Cycle

The Life-Cycle

Dedicated by Lynn Sykes in Loving Memory of Gene Sykes,
devoted husband, father, and uncle

Girlhood ● Marriage ● Physical Intimacy ● Motherhood ● Contraception ● Headcovering

Girlhood

Chinuch: Education

What is chinuch for mitzvot? Who is obligated? At what stage?

Bat Mitzva

What is the halachic significance of bat mitzva? How should it be observed?

Marriage

Marriage I
Concept of Kiddushin

What is kiddushin and how does it work? What role does a woman play?

Marriage II
Mitzva & Beracha

Is kiddushin a mitzva? What type of beracha is Birkat Eirusin? Who can recite it?

Marriage III
Nissuin

How does nissuin work and what are its implications and attendant obligations?

Marriage IV
The ketuba

What is the ketuba? What are its contents and purpose? What does this mean today?

Marriage V
Sheva Berachot

What are Sheva Berachot and what role do they serve? Who can recite them?

Marriage VI
The Wedding Day

What are the halachot and customs of the wedding day? May a couple see each other?

Marriage VII
Before kiddushin

What are the customs of the wedding from reception, to bedecken, to processional, to how the chuppa is made?

Marriage VIII
Kiddushin

What's the role of mesader kiddushin, and who can fulfill it? How is kiddushin conducted in practice? Can the kalla give a ring?

Marriage IX
After Kiddushin

How do the later stages of the wedding, from reading the ketuba to yichud, work? What potential roles are there for women?

Physical Intimacy

Physical Intimacy I
Marital Intimacy

What views on physical intimacy are found in our tradition? What's the halachic framework for marital intimacy?

Physical Intimacy II
Boundaries & Touch

How does Halacha regulate touch, in and out of marriage? What are the halachic underpinnings of shemirat negia?

Physical Intimacy III
Touch in Practice

What touch (negia) is permissible between women and men who are prohibited to each other, and in what contexts?

Motherhood

Motherhood I
Procreation

What are the blessing and imperative to “be fruitful and multiply”? What are its levels, and how do they apply to women?

Contraception

Contraception I
Intro & Health

When is contraception permissible? What roles do health considerations play in permissibility?

Contraception II
Family Planning

When is contraceptive use permissible after childbirth? What about after pirya ve-rivya has been fulfilled?

Head-Covering

Head-covering I
Halachic Basis

What is the halachic basis for married women’s head-covering?

Head-covering II
Rationale and Meaning

What explanations for the mitzva of head-covering emerge from the sources?

Head-covering III
Who

Who is obligated to cover her head? When does a bride become obligated?

Head-covering IV
How

How much of her head or hair does a woman need to cover? Where do the variations in custom come from?

Head-Covering V
Where

In what settings does the obligation of head-covering apply?

Continue to Concepts Halachic Foundations

Girlhood

From birth to bat mitzva, how does Halacha shape girls’ lives?

Womanhood

From dating to establishing a room of her own, what halachot are relevant to a single woman?

Communal Roles

What are the implications and halachic standing of different communal roles for women?

Marriage

What are the halachot related to the Jewish wedding, the marital relationship, and divorce?

Motherhood

What are the halachot of conception, contraception, childbirth, nursing, and child-rearing?

The Final Passage

What are the halachot of mourning and bereavement, kaddish, inheritance, and preparing for the end of life?

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        • Hallel
      • Pesach
        • Af Hen: Inclusion in the Miracle
        • The Seder I
        • The Seder II
      • Sefirat Ha-omer
      • Shavuot
        • Tikkun Leil Shavuot
      • Fast Days
        • Fast Days
        • Exemption: Minor Fasts
        • Exemption: Major Fasts
        • The 3 Weeks and 9 Days
      • Elul
        • Selichot
        • Shofar in Elul
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        • The Mitzva of Shofar
        • Blowing Shofar
      • Yom Kippur
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        • Af Hen: Inclusion in the Miracle
        • Candle-Lighting
        • Other Observances
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        • Arba Parashiyot
        • Af Hen: Inclusion in the Miracle
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        • Mitzvot of Purim
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