Besides Tet shopping, cleaning the altar and removing incense sticks are also important tasks in the twelfth lunar month.

Ah, incense. As the priest rhythmically swings the censer, the aromatic smoke from the burning incense, with its sweet fragrance of frankincense and myrrh, rises and fills the sanctuary. Then the ...

At the end of the year, cleaning the altar and removing incense sticks properly, avoiding feng shui violations, is something families always need to pay attention to and remember.

In last week’s Parasha, Parshat Terumah, Bnei Israel are commanded (27:1-8), to make an ‘altar of acacia wood’, and to plate it with copper. Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl comments:”In addition to this copper ...

When the Dao finish building a new house, they immediately set up an ancestral altar. The dedication ritual is held at midnight. The altar is placed in a corner of the central room, in front of the ...