In order to help our Tefillot be answered, we should offer prayer filled with sincerity, emotion, and linked to a higher spiritual purpose.

Kavod Shabbat is fulfilled by one's erev shabbat attitudes and behaviors.

Having an open house with many guests will help limit petty conversations and improve peace in the home.

In some shuls or homes during the Friday night kiddush, there are those who have the minhag to sing along at certain parts. Can both the listener and the one making kidush say parts of kidush, mixing and matching?

The set times for ritual prayers are designed to discipline the mind.

Not only do we abstain from cooking on Shabbat, we don't even give it a little stir.

Instead of saying what we will do for others-just do it, and enjoy the smiles on the faces of our friends who are pleasantly surprised.

We are obligated to give comfort to the bereaved, and ultimately that is something we can't do unless the mourner opens his or her mouth first.

To offer a real prayer, a person must be realistically in touch with what is lacking in their life, and what is lacking in the life of others.

Understanding the different concepts that apply to the intent of certain actions on Shabbat.