Practical guides, prayer books, and community tools for Sephardic life.
The tools our community opens every day.
Everything you need for this week: candle-lighting times, the Shabbat guide with transliteration, and this week’s Torah portion.
Selichot through the month of Elul, then Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur: the prayers, the simanim, and the laws in one place.
The sukkah, the Four Species, Hoshanot and hakafot, and what Sephardic families do once the holiday ends.
Lighting order, blessings and songs, Sephardic halakhot, and the fast of Asara B’Tevet that follows.
The New Year for the Trees: fruits, blessings, and the Safed tradition of the Tu BiShvat seder. Purim is next.
Megillah, mishloach manot, matanot laevyonim and the half-shekel: the halakhot and Sephardic traditions of Purim.
From selling your hametz to the last day of Pesah: the Haggadah, the food list, and every step in between.
Counting the 49 days, the Hilula of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai on Lag BaOmer, and the Sephardic customs of Shavuot.
From the 17th of Tammuz to the 9th of Av: the laws of mourning, the kinot, and the memory of Sefarad.
Siddur, blessings, and guides for every day and every Shabbat.
From waking up to tallit and tefillin, step by step.
Read today’s Tehillim or choose psalms for a special purpose. How to read Tehillim.
This week’s Shabbat and holiday times for your city.
Join our online Shaharit and Arvit services.
The blessings for an aliyah, with transliteration.
Customs and halakha for Monday and Thursday readings.
Prayers and customs for the new Hebrew month.
Rabbi David de Sola Pool’s Thanksgiving prayers.
Every holiday in calendar order, starting with Rosh HaShana. Holiday names open the full holiday page.
Sephardic customs and texts for every stage of life.
Request a prayer, find a synagogue, trace your family, and look things up.
Request Kaddish, a memorial prayer, or a prayer for healing.
Add a name to our community healing list.
Find a Sephardic synagogue near you. Add a synagogue.
Hebrew dates, zmanim, holidays and Sephardic U events.
Guides and records for tracing Sephardic roots.
How we write Sephardic Hebrew in English letters.
Where, how, and the blessing, the Sephardic way.
Kosher meat, cheese, waiting times and eating out.
The full list of mitzvot, searchable.
Every Sephardic U prayer book and guide as a PDF, ready to print for home or synagogue.
Podcasts, prayer and Torah-reading videos, and books for further study.
Sephardic history, holidays and the weekly parasha.
Weekday readings in Moroccan te’amim, piyyutim and melodies.
Lectures, interviews and video from Sephardic U. YouTube channel.
Recommended books on Sephardic history and thought.
Read and discuss with the community.
Key moments in Sephardic history, in order.
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