Jewish practices quotations

10.4 Daily Services and Prayer

“You shall look at them and remember the commandments of the Lord” (The book of Numbers - Tzitzit)

10.5/6 Shabbat

“Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy” (Exodus)

It is not thew Jews who sustain Shabbat, but Shabbat which sustains the Jews” (Rabbi Jonathan Sacks)

10.8 Ceremonies associated with birth

“For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised” (Genesis)

“You shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and that shall be the sign of the covenant“ (Genesis)

“Have the first born of man redeemed” (The book of Numbers)

10.10 Marriage

“A man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, so that they become one flesh” (Genesis)

10.11 Mourning for the dead

Jacob’s example in Genesis: “put sackcloth on his loins”

10.12 Dietary Laws

“You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and chews the cud” (Deuteronomy)

“Pig is unclean”

“Do not partake in the blood, for the blood is life”

10.13 Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

“You shall do no manner of work… on this day of atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you of all your sins” (Leviticus)