After marriage or when we move into a new home it is an exiting time especially when it is your first home.
Turning a home into a Jewish home is evidently Jewish by the presence of books and Seforim which brings holiness into our home like Torah, Siddur, Zohar, Tanya, Talmud and many more books to fill your bookcase.
The children's room(s) when they are old enough, can have their own little bookcase with the Chumash, Siddur, Tehillim, Haggadah and their own Tzedakah box. Personalize the books with their name, and to make the children extra proud, you can hang the certificate of the letter they received in the Children's Sefer Torah.
A home is at the heart of Judaism, it is where we connect with HaShem in our daily lives, when we daven, learn Torah and give Tzedakah before lighting the Shabbos candles, the seder with Pesach and the Sukkah, a dwelling place outside our home, celebrating eight days of the Chanukah and Shabbos Kodesh a day of rest, spiritual upliftment and to sanctify our home into a dwelling place for HaShem. Home is where we recite Tehillim, where we say most of the brachos.
Our house is so much more than just a comfortable and nicely decorated home, we dedicated our home to HaShem and mitzvos.
Chanukas Habayis the Jewish house warming ceremony is the seudah mitzvah which we enjoy with family and friends, but it is really about expressing our gratitude to HaShem for the blessings He gives us in our new home.
Now we turned our new house into a Jewish home, by affixing the Mezuzos unto the front doorpost and every doorpost in the house apart from the bathroom/restroom or affixing a mezuzah on a doorpost facing the bathroom.
It is fun to let the children choose their own mezuzah case and hang a sign of Tzivos HaShem on their door makes it extra special.
The Torah teaches us that a home is intended to serve as spiritual growth and performance of Mitzvos. There are Mitzvos that are dependant on your home, like the Mezuzah on your doorposts.
🔸️Seforim
🔸️Chumash
🔸️Tanya
🔸️Mitzvos
🔸️Brachos
🔸️Mezuzah
🔸️Letter