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Preparing For Shabbat
Here are some suggestions (these are NOT halachot!) of what to prepare in advance of Shabbat. Add or delete to suit your needs!
 
Candle Lighting
  • Check candle lighting time
  • Set the candles in their holders (and have matches nearby)
 
Set the Table
Set the table, including the challa and its cover and the wine cup.
 
Kitchen Preparation
  • Sharpen knives
  • Tear paper towels
  • Refrigerator: Turn off or unscrew lights; disconnect any LEDs or fans
  • Set up blech
  • Set up hot water urn
  • Turn off stove, oven
 
Food Preparation
  • Thaw frozen meat, fish, and other food that might take hours to defrost before being cooked
  • Cook whatever can be cooked ahead of time on Thursday night, Friday morning, or earlier in the week
  • Squeeze lemons; do any other boreir-type preparations
  • Chill wine
  • Open bottles and cans that will be needed on Shabbat
  • Prepare tea essence
 
Cleaning
  • Make beds
  • Sweep or vacuum
  • Dump garbage
 
Clothing
  • Do laundry
  • Empty pockets of muktza (or if there is no eruv, of everything!)
  • For men, set out Shabbat talit
 
Muktza
Check that nothing you will need is beneath a muktza item
 
Personal Care
  • Cut hair and nails, if needed
  • For men, shave or trim beard and mustache, if needed
  • Tear dental floss
  • Tear toilet paper or put out tissues in bathrooms
  • Open any new boxes of tissues
 
Electronics
  • Set heat or air conditioning
  • Turn on or off lights, or set timers for them
  • If desired, turn off or disconnect:
  • Alarms 
  • Cellphones and phones
  • Computers
  • Microwave detectors
  • Other electronics
 
Eruv
Check that the eruv (if any) is good
Borei Pri HaGafen*: After SheHakol
Situation You said she'hakol on a non-grape beverage, drank the beverage, and then want to drink wine (or grape juice).
What To Do Say borei pri ha'gafen before drinking the wine (or grape juice).
Borei Pri HaAdama: Which Foods: General Rules
Say borei pri ha'adama on:
  • Common vegetables,
  • Fruits and nuts that grow on annual plants (such as pineapple, bananas, strawberries, peanuts), and
  • Uncooked or unbaked grains, including those not of the Five Special Grains.
Note For when to say she'hakol, see Borei Pri HaAdama: Sprouts .
Borei Pri HaGafen: Mixed Drinks: Wine/Grape Juice Mixed with Non-Water Liquids
Say borei pri ha'gafen on mixtures of wine (or grape juice) with beverages other than water, as long as the final mixture would still be considered to be wine (or grape juice) by most people in your area.
Note If the mixture is at least 50\% wine (and maybe even at greater dilutions), it will normally be considered borei pri ha'gafen.
Borei Pri HaGafen: Mixed Drinks: Wine/Grape Juice Mixed with Water
Say borei pri ha'gafen on drinks of wine or grape juice mixed with water if at least 1/7th of the total volume is wine (or grape juice) but the mixture but also still be considered to be wine or grape juice.
Borei Pri Ha'Eitz or SheHecheyanu First
Steps for saying she'hecheyanu on a new fruit:
  • Say borei pri ha'eitz first, then
  • Say she'hecheyanu, then
  • (Cut and) Eat it.
Borei Nefashot: Special Cases: Popcorn
To say the after-blessing on popcorn, you only need to eat a few popped kernels as long as in the popped state they fill 1 fl. oz. (30 ml).
Borei Nefashot: Minimum Requirements
Say borei nefashot after:
  • Eating at least 1.3 fl. oz. (39 ml, or 1/6 cup) of non-mezonot food or non-special fruits within four minutes, OR
  • Drinking at least 3.3 fl. oz. (99 ml) of non-grape juice drinks or wine within 30 seconds.
Borei Pri HaAdama: Sprouts
Say the fore-blessing of she'hakol if the sprouts were grown only in water.
Say borei pri ha'adama if the grains were sprouted in the ground (such as sunflower sprouts or wheat grass).
Borei Pri HaAdama: Salads
Say borei pri ha'adama on vegetable salad.
Note The fore-blessing of borei pri ha'adama also covers salad toppings and additions that by themselves require a different blessing, such as:
  • Borei pri ha'eitz for a sprinkling of pine nuts, cashews, apple slices, or raisins, or
  • Borei minei mezonot or ha'motzi for bread croutons. 
Reason Since these toppings and additions are subordinate to the main salad, you do not say the individual blessings; you only say borei pri ha'adama.

Borei Pri HaAdama: Bread Croutons in Salad
For fore-blessing of bread croutons in salad, see Borei Pri HaAdama: Salads.
 
Borei Pri HaAdama: Bananas, Hearts of Palm
Say borei pri ha'adama if the tree from which the food grew can only be used once, such as banana trees or palm trees that get cut down after giving their produce.
Borei Pri Ha'Eitz: Five Special Fruits: Order and Preference
To eat more than one type of the Five Special Fruits:
  • If you have a particular preference, you may eat the fruits in whichever order you prefer.
  • If you have no particular preference, eat them in this order:
    1. Olive
    2. Date
    3. Grape
    4. Fig
    5. Pomegranate.
Note Order of Five Special Fruits
The order for eating the Five Special Fruits comes from Deuteronomy/Devarim 8:8 and follows the fruit's proximity to the two times the word “eretz” is used:
“Eretz chita u's'ora v'gefen u't'eina v'rimon, eretz zayit shemen u'dvash.”
A land of wheat and barley and grapevine and fig and pomegranate, a land of olive oil and honey.
Borei Pri Ha'Eitz: Five Special Fruits: General Rule
Say borei pri ha'eitz on the Five Special Fruits for which the Land of Israel is praised.
Borei Pri Ha'Eitz: All Fruits: Perennial Fruits and Nuts
Say borei pri ha'eitz on fruits and nuts from perennial trees or bushes.
Note A perennial tree or bush is a plant whose trunks or stalks survive from year to year; often with bark on the trunk or stalk.