Yom Kippur services
Chabad Piazza Bologna in Rome organizes each year, since 5774 (2013), pre-fast meals and Yom Kippur service with explanations in English and Hebrew, for foreign students and visitors.
Category: Holidays
Olive Press Workshop
What did the original Menorah really look like in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem? What really is Shemen Zayit Zach (pure olive oil)? How did the Maccabees of old make olive oil for the Golden Menorah? The Olive Oil Press Workshop answers all these questions and many more. Our current workshop demonstrates, with the help of participants, […]
Pesach Seder in Rome
The Pesach or Passover Seder is undoubtedly one of the most attended religious events after Yom Kippur, almost no Jew would want to miss this tradition of millenias. Chabad Piazza Bologna organizes each year a Seder on the first and second night in English and in Hebrew to accommodate the travelers and the foreign students […]
Public Sukka
Chabad provides a Sukkah open to the public, during Yom Tov Chabad hosts the meals and during Chol Haomed the Sukkah is open for people to bring their own food.
Lulav and Etrog
Chabad supplies the four species necessary for the holiday of Sukkot: the frond from the date palm (lulav), the fruit of a citron tree (etrog), branches of myrtle tree (haddas) and branches of the willow tree (arava). Chabad also offers the service on a one time basis for whoever is available.
Public Chanukah Menorah
Every year, in the gardens of Piazza Bologna, a giant Chanukah Menorah is lit each night at 8 pm, on friday at 3 pm. The first Saturday night of Chanukah a big party takes place, details and a list of the lightings is available at the Event section. Some history… In 2010 for the first […]
Distribuition of Chanukiot
The Mitzvah of the holiday of Chanukah is that each house should have it’s own Chanukah Menorah or Chanukiah lit each night, Chabad offers them complete with candles to tens of households, tourists and students each Chanukah holiday.
Shmura Matzah distribuition
The Passover Matzot need to be made specifically for the Mitzvah of eating the Matzah, also the Matzah must be guarded to ensure that it does not become chametz, guarding starts at the harvesting of the wheat; these two principles are found just in the Shmura (guarded) Matzah, the machine matzot usually lack of both principles. For […]
Chametz sale
A person may sell his chametz to a non Jew for the duration of Pesach, and after writing a bill of sale, he may leave the chametz in his home without transgressing the prohibitions of not seeing or having chametz, since the chametz no longer belongs to him. On the morning of the eve of […]
Model Matza Bakery
In the Model Matzah Bakery, children learn how Shmurah Matzah is made. Dressed in baker’s hats, children mix the flour and water into Matzah dough. Then the dough is rolled out, and riddled full of holes with special Matzah perforators. The matzot are rushed to the “brick” oven in the hope of baking the entire batch of […]