Judaic Rituals

fire air water earth

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fire

• lighting Sabbath candles/ festival candles
• havdala candle – indicating the end of the Sabbath
• memorial candles for those who have passed over
• chanukia or Chanukah’s 8+1 candle sticks menorah
• the eternal light above the ark of the Torah
• burning leaven before Passover
• the bonfire of Lag B’Omer

air

• blowing the shofar [ram’s horn] in the month of Elul/ Rosh Hashanah/ Yom Kippur
• blessings of spices – end of the Sabbath
• building a succah [booth] with an open roof on Sukkoth
• noisemakers on Purim
• singing/chanting as part of prayer
• dancing on Simchat Torah
• lifting up into the air the bride & groom at the wedding celebration

water

• immersing in a ritual bath before a sacred occasion – birth/ marriage/conversion
• washing hands before eating bread
• washing the dead before burial
• dipping greens in salt water on Seder night at Passover
• placing an extra cup of wine for Elijah, the prophet at the Seder table
• symbolically throwing one’s sins into a river at the end of Rosh Hashanah [new Year]

earth

• having bread & salt/ bread & honey on the Sabbath table
• blessing wine on the Sabbath
• carrying/ blessing on Succoth the land’s 4 species: citron/ willow branch/ myrtle branch/ palm branch
• planting a tree on the festival of Tu Bishvat [tree/plant festival]
• school competitions of the best decorative basket of fruit/ flowers/ leaves in honour of Shavuot, the harvest festival
• burying damaged sacred texts
• helping to bury a loved one by shoveling earth into the grave

 
Source; 
https://telshemesh.org
https://en.wikipedia.org