Your study note: A four-cornered garment has specially made strings on each corner to remind us of the commandments. Memory calculation: tzitzit = 600, plus 5 sets of knots and 8 threads = 613.

Your study note: All men over Bar Mitzvah.

Your study note: Not in the shower and not required while sleeping; the note also raises exercising as a practical situation involving a four-cornered garment.

Your study note: Black leather boxes from kosher animal hide. Head tefillin has four compartments with separate scrolls; hand tefillin one compartment. Placement: arm toward the heart and on the head above the hairline.

Your study note: All men over Bar Mitzvah.

Your study note: Not on Shabbat, at night, while sleeping, or on Yom Tov; the note mentions a machloket regarding Chol Hamoed.

Your study note: Two: one on the head above the hairline and one on the left bicep.

Your study note: Exodus 13:1–10, Exodus 13:11–16, Deuteronomy 6:4–9 and Deuteronomy 11:13–21; summarized as two Shema passages and two from Parashat Bo.

Your study note: First two paragraphs of Shema: Deuteronomy 6:4–9 and 11:13–21.

Your study note: Right side when entering, upper third, on an angle. It may be placed inside if outside is dangerous.

Your study note: Not bathroom/laundry-room doorway or very small closet; walk-in closet treated differently. One month maximum is given in the note.

Your study note: A men’s prayer shawl, worn by a married man for davening.

Your study note: Bris Milah.

Your study note: All Jewish males; normally the eighth day after birth.

Your study note: Sickness, baby too small/premature, or danger to life.

Your study note: Father, mohel and sandek. The original note labels the sandek as a witness.

Your study note: A boy is given his Hebrew name after circumcision. The supplied note does not separately give the procedure for a girl.

Your study note: Give five silver coins to a Kohen; connected with transfer of Temple service from firstborn to Kohanim after the Golden Calf.

Your study note: On the 31st full day after birth, counting from birth.

Your study note: Father and a Kohen. Child does not have to be present, though usually is.

Your study note: Father gives five silver coins to Kohen; note also mentions wine and a bracha.

Your study note: Not for a girl, later-born son, son of a Kohen or Levi, or son of a daughter of a Kohen or Levi.

Your study note: Boy 13; girl 12.

Your study note: Becoming obligated in mitzvot; happens automatically from the Jewish birthday and does not depend on a ceremony.

Your study note: From morning until the chuppah, where they drink wine. Wedding day is compared to Yom Kippur: repentance/forgiveness before married life.

Your study note: Chuppah is a canopy on four poles symbolizing the new home. Sheva Brachot are seven blessings recited under it.

Your study note: Two unrelated witnesses; wine/opening blessing; groom gives ring with marriage formula; Ketubah read; second cup for seven blessings; glass broken; couple goes to private room to conclude.

Your study note: Husband’s obligations including food, clothing and marital relations, plus financial obligation if marriage ends through divorce or death.

Your study note: Groom gives ring and says: “With this ring, you are married to me, according to the laws of Moses and Israel.”

Your study note: Prohibition against being secluded alone with a woman who is not one’s wife or daughter; an open/accessible doorway is given as a practical safeguard.

Your study note: Bikkur Cholim.

Your study note: Yes, except three categories listed: killing another person, forbidden sexual relations and idol worship.

Your study note: In an effort to change the person’s mazel.

Your study note: “Blessed is the True Judge.”

Your study note: Prepare body according to Jewish law: washing/purification, shrouds, watching over it, arranging burial. Men and women care for deceased of the same sex.

Your study note: Death is not the end; soul continues in next world. Note describes Gan Eden for a tzadik and Gehinnom as purification for others, linked to mitzvot in this world.

Your study note: Body is made in image of Hashem and treated with dignity; burial also connected with belief in resurrection.

Your study note: Opposed because of respect for body. Note gives exception when an organ is immediately needed and suitably matched to save a life. Practical cases need qualified guidance.

Your study note: Sit on low chairs; mirrors covered.

Your study note: White linen.

Your study note: Yes. Wash hands after leaving cemetery and before entering house.

Your study note: The setting is for mourning and sorrow, not decorative cheering.

Your study note: Final days of major Torah festivals and Yom Kippur. Candle represents connection with neshama on these holy days.

Your study note: Ayin hara.

Your study note: Attend outside the religious facility or at graveside rather than participating in the religious service inside.

Your study note: On anniversary of death to represent connection with soul; before dark; burn 24 hours.

Your study note: Eulogies, coffin to grave, blessing True Judge, tearing mourner’s garment, burial with earth placed into grave, Kaddish, consolation lines, then Shiva.

Your study note: Following Yaakov erecting one for Rachel; connected with neshama and Yahrzeit remembrance.

Your study note: Shiva 7 days, 30-day period, 12-month period for parents.

Your study note: A parent.

Your study note: Shirt or jacket being worn for one of seven close relatives: parent, child, sibling or spouse.

Your study note: Kriah; torn garment worn during Shiva.

Your study note: Seven-day mourning to remember deceased, express grief and show person mattered; preferable in place where person lived.

Your study note: Ordinary greetings are not given.

Your study note: “Hashem should console you among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.”

Your study note: To elevate the soul of the deceased.

Your study note: For parent, 11 months after daily tefillot; son normally recites it, or someone may be engaged if no son.

Your study note: After Shiva and regularly, especially Elul and Yahrzeit; approximately twice a year or more, but not twice in one day.

Your study note: Hair is part of beauty and reserved for husband; note distinguishes unmarried women and comments on very natural-looking wigs.

Your study note: Class standards: covered knees/elbows/collarbone, clothing not tight/flashy, modesty/separation in swimming settings.

Your study note: Obligated in Megillah, Seder and Chanukah because women were included in those miracles. Shofar and sukkah treated as time-bound exemptions. Havdalah: note records dispute and practical participation by listening. Elsewhere tefillin is stated as obligation on men over Bar Mitzvah.

Your study note: In front of Beit Din: acceptance of all mitzvot, Bris Milah for man, immersion in mikvah.

Your study note: Maintain respect, while not participating in their religion or allowing contrary religious agendas to influence Jewish observance.

Your study note: Shabbat candles, separating challah in home, Niddah/family purity laws.

Your study note: Prevent through Jewish education, distinct Jewish identity/community and avoiding intermarriage.

Your study note: Jewish court; note lists divorce, conversion and financial matters.

Your study note: Ten-percent tithe; note refers to tithes for Leviim and in contemporary giving to poor.

Your study note: Prohibited wool-linen mixture in clothing; note mentions checking garments when necessary.

Your study note: Worn-out holy books/sacred writings containing Hashem’s name that cannot simply be discarded; must be buried.