Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Tzedakah is a duty of justice rather than an act of generosity, and the word does not mean charity.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. 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.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. The groom veils the bride before the ceremony.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. The search for leaven is made by candlelight on the night before Passover eve.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Brit Milah is performed by a mohel on the eighth day, and the day is not moved for convenience.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Burial is in the earth, without embalming, ordinarily within a day.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Chalitzah is performed where a man dies childless and his brother declines to marry the widow, and it is what releases her to remarry.
Israel's election is affirmed in its classical form, underwriting this stream's deliberate separation from the surrounding secular culture.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. The marriage is solemnised under the canopy.
Haredi and Hasidic communities keep the eighth-day circumcision with a large celebration, and some Hasidic groups retain metzitzah b'peh, oral suction of the wound, which public health authorities have sought to restrict.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Coming of age is a matter of obligation taking effect at a fixed age rather than of a ceremony conferring it.
The covenant is read as binding without qualification, and the refusal to reinterpret its obligations for the modern world is the defining commitment of this stream.
Creation from nothing by divine will is held in its traditional form, and the account is read as history.
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.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. The public fasts of the calendar are kept, the two full fasts from sunset to nightfall and the four minor fasts from dawn.
Haredi and Hasidic synagogues use a gabbai, often a figure of real standing in the community beyond the liturgical function.
Acts of loving kindness are held as a standing obligation, and this stream sustains a dense network of mutual aid institutions on that basis.
Giyur, Rituals Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Conversion requires acceptance of the commandments before a rabbinic court, circumcision where applicable, and immersion, and conversions performed outside this body are not recognised.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Hakafot are made with the Torah scrolls on Simchat Torah.
Halakha is held divinely given and binding in full detail, observed with particular strictness under the authority of leading rabbis and yeshiva heads.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Hoshanot are said with the four species on each day of Sukkot.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Kabbalat Shabbat opens the Sabbath on Friday evening.
Haredi and Hasidic households take the strictest available position at each point, using only the supervisions their own community accepts, keeping glatt meat and often shmura matzah, and treating a lesser certification as none at all.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Visiting the graves of parents and of the righteous is customary before the High Holy Days.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Betrothal and marriage, once separate by a year, are performed together under the canopy.
Kriah, Rituals Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. A garment is torn by the mourners.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Maariv is prayed at night.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. 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.
Haredi kashrut certification networks and Lithuanian-style yeshivos are where both senses of the mashgiach office are most institutionally developed.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. The dead are remembered at Yizkor on four days of the year.
The Lag BaOmer gathering at the tomb ascribed to Shimon bar Yochai draws Hasidic and Sephardi pilgrims in very large numbers.
A personal Messiah is awaited literally, the classical Orthodox position this stream shares with Modern Orthodoxy.
Midrashic literature is held as authoritative rabbinic interpretation of scripture.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Immersion is required for conversion, for family purity, and for vessels bought from a non-Jew.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Mincha is prayed in the afternoon.
The Mishnah 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 in their fullest traditional extent, with stringency preferred to leniency where authorities differ.
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.
Haredi and Hasidic communities use certified mohelim, frequently a hereditary or long-apprenticed specialty within a family.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Musaf is prayed on Sabbaths, new moons and festivals, and it asks in plain words for the restoration of the Temple and its offerings.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Mussar, the disciplined work on character, entered the yeshiva world in the nineteenth century and is taught in many of them.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. A boy is named at his circumcision, a girl at a Torah reading.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Hands are washed with a vessel on rising and before eating bread.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. The laws of family purity are kept, with immersion in a mikveh at their conclusion, and they are among the observances that most distinguish this body in practice.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Nusach Ashkenaz is used in the congregations of this body descended from the communities of the Rhineland and eastern Europe.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Nusach Edot HaMizrach is used in the Sephardi and Mizrahi congregations of this body.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Nusach Sefard is used in the Hasidic congregations of this body.
Haredi and Hasidic households keep the thirty-nine categories at their strictest and add the customs of the court, a tish at the rebbe's table and a third meal at dusk with singing, alongside a deliberate separation from the surrounding week.
God is addressed as almighty in the received liturgy, kept here in its traditional form.
The Oral Torah in its entirety is held as revealed at Sinai and equally binding with the Written Torah.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. The Seder is conducted from the Haggadah in full, with the four cups and the four questions.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Pesukei Dezimra opens the morning service.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. A firstborn son of a mother is redeemed from a kohen on the thirty-first day, unless the father is a kohen or a levi.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Pilgrimage to the Western Wall and to the graves of the righteous stands in place of the three pilgrim festivals that required attendance at a Temple that no longer stands.
Haredi Judaism follows the individual-posek model, with the most respected living poskim of a generation carrying broad authority (a daas Torah figure) beyond their own community.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Prayer is obligatory, fixed in text and in time, and the obligation falls on men three times daily.
Prophecy is held as real, closed, and preserved in the written record, with no continuing prophetic office.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. The Purim play is a licensed annual reversal, and in the yeshivot it is turned on the institution itself.
Haredi Judaism ordains rabbis through yeshiva semicha and does not ordain women.
Haredi communities give the rebbetzin significant informal standing, often running the practical side of communal institutions.
Redemption is held as a future divine act, and for much of this stream it is the reason the present political restoration is not mistaken for it.
Religious anti-Zionism, holding that a Jewish state before the Messiah's coming oversteps human authority, has been the position of significant Hasidic and Haredi authorities within this stream.
Bodily resurrection of the dead is affirmed literally.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. The Omer is counted aloud, with a blessing, on each of the forty-nine nights.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Selichot are said in the penitential season and on the fast days.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. The Sabbath as a day of prescribed rest, prayer and meals is the frame the whole week is built on.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Shacharit is prayed daily, ordinarily with a quorum of ten, with tefillin on weekdays.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. The body is watched continuously from death until burial.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. The seven blessings are said under the canopy and repeated at meals through the following week.
Shiva, Rituals Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Seven days of mourning are kept at home, the mourners seated low and not going out.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Thirty days of lesser mourning follow the seven.
The slaughterer's qualification and practice are governed in detail by the Shulchan Aruch's Yoreh De'ah, which sets both the law of shechitah and the requirement that a shochet be examined and licensed before he may act for a community.
The Shulchan Aruch is held as the standard authoritative code of practical halakha, followed with particular strictness.
The scribe's work is governed by the Shulchan Aruch's Yoreh De'ah, which sets the law for the writing of Torah scrolls, tefillin and mezuzot, down to the forming of the letters and the intention required while writing the divine name.
Haredi and Hasidic communities require sofer-written ritual objects to the strict halakhic standard, and Hasidic courts often maintain their own soferim.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Scribal work on Torah scrolls, tefillin and mezuzot is done to the received halakhic standards, and a scroll that fails them is not used.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. The body is washed and purified by the burial society before dressing.
The Talmud is held as authoritative and binding, studied intensively as the center of traditional yeshiva learning.
The Tanakh is held as divinely revealed scripture.
Repentance is held in its full traditional form, with the season of return kept at the length and intensity the classical sources set.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. Maaser, the tenth, is given from income, and the practice survived the loss of the agricultural tithes it began as.
The Torah is held as verbatim divine revelation given at Sinai.
Affirmed in its strictest classical form, written and oral Torah alike dictated at Sinai, foundational to this stream's separation from modern reinterpretation.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. A boy's first haircut is delayed to his third birthday.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. The Yahrzeit is kept with Kaddish and a lamp on the anniversary of a death.
Kept in Haredi Judaism, where the halakhic standard is the strictest and the most stringent opinion is ordinarily followed. The couple withdraw alone after the ceremony, which completes the marriage in halakhah.