The blessings on the kindling of the menorah including audio, translation and transliteration.
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Shalom,
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Thank you soooo much for the excellent presentation of the blessings. The three versions are so helpful.
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Half my family is Jewish, but my immediate family never practiced. Your site has been one of my entry points into Jewish life and faith and I thank you for that deeply! Your site is clear, meaningful and very helpful. Thank you very much!
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Hi I just wanted to say hello and that this site is great for Jewish people who can't read Hebrew yet but want to start being observant. I moved to Australia three years ago and my husband is Aussie and we are both Jewish, but my husband never learned hebrew, so now he is trying to learn blessings and about Judaism and we observe the holidays and so this site will definitely help us with the lighting of the Menorah! Thanks,
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I absolutely love the information provided on this site. It has helped me to know and understand all the things I need to know about holidays, shabbat, prayers, etc. Thank you so mcuh for providing this information. MAy G-d bless you and yours.
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Site is very informative...Really enjoyed the interactive files and the blessings
Shalom
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Thank you for the translations. Very helpful for my reforming son in law
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Thank you this has been a great help
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Thank you for this data. It was very interesting and some things I did not know.
Want to wish everyone a very happy and healthy chag.
May it bring us closer to the one above, and each other when we light the candles.
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I want to Thank you again for the lovely emails. So informative and useful.
I have printed out some of Prayes I didn't know by heart, to read on the lighting of our Menorah. Thank you agin.
I wish ALL of you at Chabad, a joyful and lovely Chanukah.
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Excellent review for those of us who are a bit rusty on ceremony. As our Talmudic rabbi in our adult education class states: "More than Halacha, it's our tradition and ceremony that has kept Judaism alive." For many of us, our religious education stopped prematurely, and did not keep up with our secular studies. Thank you for our second chance to reaquaint ourselves to Jewish practice and observance. Yasher koach.
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This is the first time I've celebrated chunukah in my life. I'm of Jewish blood but we never celebrated growing up, to our shame but I swore that I would start this tradition now in my later years... Thanks to your site I've gotten all the insight that's needed to celebrate and praise G-d. Bless you for a wonderful site to share with all...
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I have been , for the most part a non-practicing Jew, but still feeling a love for G-d. Six weeks ago I became a proud grandmother, for the first time of a half Jewish, half Luthern grandson. Although I know it's up to the parents to guide their son, I feel a need to show him a little also. Since this is his first Chanukah / Christmas and Christmas has so much glitter to it, and lights hold so much attraction for him now, this would be a good time to start his education. The prayers are helpful to me because I have no formal religious training. Having them in the format you provide makes it so much easier.
Thank you.
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Thank you for the prayers for the lighting of the candles. To have the transliteration is so helpful, I only vaguely remember them from my Grandmother...I had always wanted the full prayer...
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Excellent! Toda Raba! :-)
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Very inciteful! Thank you and peace be with you.
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I am going through a period of loneliness that I have never experienced in my life before. It has lasted a few years until I realized my emptinessis because of my need for a closeness to my people and I never realized how those that are a part of the Chabad are so non-judgemental and at least so far the Rabbi has accepted me as a part of the family instead of making me feel as if I am far apart from the congregation. My Mother is 92 but has been getting sicker as time goes by. I thank the Rabbi for his loving acceptance and for G-d's love and constant support I have received even though I need to improve my days and times I worship as I find I am not able to go the the Chabad but rather I have to pray at my home. Again, I thank you all for just being here and organizing as a large family rather than a large building with no character, warmth or feeling of love that comes from it.
A wonderful Chanukah and my love to all. And a very special "Thank You" to Rabbi Bukiet.
Shalom, Mike
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Having grown up in a non-religious family and now being married to a non-religious catholic (lower case on purpose!) we have developed our own rituals for the winter holidays that certainly revolve around light. We do light the menorah and each night we assign a miracle to each candle. Just thought I'd share.
Thank you for your site as we do fumble through the traditional Hebrew prayers as well.
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Thank you with proving us with the blessings and interpretations. It is not only uselful to Jewish people but Christians, so that they can understand and celebrate Chanukah.
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I am have a shop in Amsterdam Holland. I am not Jewish. We decorate our shop for Christmas, but I would also like to have a Menorah and light the candels and post the meaning of chanukah. Out of respect and to further the understanding between faiths. Would I be offending anyone if I was to do this ? I would also say the prays you have outline and follow the information you have posted. Please let me know if this would be wrong.
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Blessings should be our life.
The Three Blessings are at the same time simple and profound.
An enrichment for my soul and a path for my life.
I recognize that they came to me as a gift.
Love for life, love for our ancestors, love for others and loving G-d.
My appreciation and Blessings to you !
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I have been searching for the blessings, your web site has been of great help for my relearning.
Thank You
Debbi
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Blessings
Thankyou very much, the best for me to learn and understand the prayer especially in all three versions, G-d is doing miracles every day, but not everyone can recognize them and understand them in the right way. (See kiss of Esau) A kiss which is given, must be understand for love and sincerity.
I am with you and I will open my mouth to speak and you will get another miracle.
Sincerly yours
Inge Reisinger
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I wish to thank you for allowing me to listening the Blessings on the internet.
This is a luminous idea.
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Many thanks. As a gentile interested in Jewish heritage, this site was very useful in a primary event at a party to raise awareness of the holiday amongst my flatmates. Happy Chanukah!
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I see 2 pronunciations in different sources, either "LA-z'man hazeh, or LI-z'man hazeh.
Does the LA imply that there is the article (HA) before zeman, and does LI imply that the article is not present, except in HAzeh, as in the construct form? Which is more commonly used? I grew up with LA (Ashkenazic, if that makes a difference in this case)
Chag Sameach!
Zeleg
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thank you for the blessings and all the info on this sacred holiday. This is my first Chanukah, I am 22 years old and have looked into honoring the festival of lights for years. I want to raise my firstborn, Haniel Bethbarah in a Godly manner. thank you again.
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Many years ago (1969) the Lubavitch community sent me a small phamphlet that, in addition to the nightly Chanukah prayers, also included a small paragraph for each night that dedicated that night to specific tenents that we celebrated (i.e. one night was dedicated to family, another to charity, a third to learning, and etc.). In my moving across the country I have lost it and sorely miss it now that this wonderful time of year is again upon us. I would very much appreciate it if this site could post them.
A Happy Chanukah to all who celebrate and may they all remember that miricles are still all around us if only we take the time to see G_ds hand.
Shalom
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Thank you so much for the 3 versions of the blessings over the menorah. I am the only Jewish person in my office and my co-workers were very enthusiastic to learn about my celebration. We all enjoyed the latkes -- great recipe!
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Your site is a great help. I thank the Lord for it. May the Lord bless you during this Chanukah season.
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Your site made it posisble for me to give to my kids and their Jewish friends one great Chanukah party. It made it easy for me to maintain our traditions and faith in such a fun way.
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I just called and left a hearty "Happy Chanukah" with your help of pronounciation and spelling for a dear friend celebrating this holy day. As a gentile I feel a kindred spirit with my Jewish friends ..... my Lord was raised with the traditions and customs of the Jews. The Old Testiment is part of my Bible. My mom's best friend is Jewish and we would always celebrate our holidays together. Yours is a rich and sacred faith. Shalom !
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If you ever get around to it, it would be great to have the prayers recited also by a native hebrew speaker at normal speed. As someone who learned the prayers in Israel as a little girl but has since forgotten many, it would be easier to follow along.
Thanks much!
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Thank you so much for your help in repairing this world by enabling me to learn the blessings of lighting Chanukah candles, thus making the world a little holier.
Shalom,
Meri
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I don't know what else to say, other than I am so happy to have found your site. My ex-husband sent it to me. I grew up in Montreal, and now live a rural village in the province of British Columbia, and am probably the only Jewish person around. Apart from being legally blind, I feel quite isolated. I will be checking this site frequently! My Hebrew name is Malcha...
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So the woman could not find the menorah. she stacked these littles round candels on top of each other until she had a sort of Pyramid' One candle on either end and the second with two and then the middle one with 5 little round candles underneath one that was burning. All in all anyone from the Bais Des Ange in Nice France would have felt homesick.
In the end she saw me writing this report and she began to cry and said " I just tried to keep Ha=shems commandment as best as I could."
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This is my first Chanukah and I'm really nervous because I want everything to go well. This was a great help!
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I own a Judaica shop and copied the blessing to give out to each person who buys candles, oil or a menorah from my shop.
I am blessed to do a mitzvah everyday by helping people to perform their own mitzvot.
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This is one of the best and easiest to use websites I have ever been on. A true mitzvot!
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as a new jew, i am overjoyed to partake in my first real chanukah. learning this blessing is a big accomplishment for me. i just began to learn hebrew and im having my bat-mitzvah when i turn 16. thank you for helping make my first real chanukah special
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i just started dating a Jewish man and would like to help him celebrate Chanukah. This site is extremely helpful. Thank you.
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It would be wonderful to hear the melody for the blessings. I sang it as a child and would like to share it with my children.
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Your site has been very helpful, insighful in all aspects especially Holiday procedures.
Thank you,
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Thank You for the web site. My daughter and family will be celebrating Chanukah for the first time this year.
We will follow your plan.
Thank You
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Celebrated my candle lighting with 2 gentile friends in attendance and I sang the blessings for wife and self and they were impressed as they know many Jews who do not celebrate anything, but Christian Christmas.
Thank you for making the blessings available online.
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This site is most excellent. I will consult it in the future. We did observe, albeit not as perfectly as outlined here, by lighting what I THOUGHT were only two candles and explaining the importance of the holiday but, guess what, a third candle caught on fire by itself (I lie not!) and so tonite we do four. It was our first night last night for doing the lighting with my foster children along with doing our tree. I will have to explain my error. I think we'll also play the dreidel game since the youngest (9) asked about it all night.
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This is a great site. Keep the good works coming.
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i found this site looking for a guide on how to pronounce the hebrew because the canadian band "Barenaked Ladies" did a song called 'Hanukkah Blessings' which is amazing. As a gentile who grew up with NO jewish influence around, it brings up a little feeling about how a jewish person would feel with all of the christain fan fair of christmas would feel during christmas. ths site was very helpful in allowing me to sing along and learn the correct way to recite the hebrew prayers since i have not had to sing hebrew since school choir. thank you
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We needed some guidance and translaton for this wonderful ceremony-- thanks
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I think the gentlemen saying the blessings is terrific for those that need help with Hebrew pronunciation. Unfortunately, I am fine with that. What I need help with is the MELODY. Any hints for the tone deaf?
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It came in handy to find so easy the Chabad website so we make sure we have the right brachot for any holiday.
Thank you for making accessible.
Happy Chanukah!
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Thank you so much! Every Chanukah, I search for my siddur to look for the prayers to light the Menorah, and I just can't seem to find them quickly enough.
Now, I have printed them out from this site, and will always keep them handy. Happy Chanukah to everyone and a safe, peaceful New Year.
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When it came to prayer time, we knew where to go. Thanks for the great site!!
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Having supported Chabad with attendance and dollars, I find it refreshing that all the Chabad Rabbis are indeed scholars and dedicated men of GOD. Their wives are equally dedicated to Jews and their children because of their home schooling will never end up in a prison except to nurture other souls who have lost their path of rightiousness. May G-d bless their organization and the souls of the Rabbi and Rebbetzin of Mumbai in their life long dedication to better understand man's existance and purpose on this earth.
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Although Chanukah celebrates events which took place only some 150 years before the common era began, the first Menorah blessing is:
Blessed are You, Lord our G-d, King of the universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us to kindle the Chanukah light.
Perhaps a naive question, but how do we know that Hashem Himself so commanded us, other perhaps than that He surely inspires/influences all earthly activity?
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As a hopeful convert to Judaism, this site is absolutely wonderfully helpful to me during my journey. Thank you to everyone associated with this Chabad site for their wonderful work!
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Blessings on the Menorah
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The blessings on the kindling of the menorah including audio, translation and transliteration. (1:06) |
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| Traditional prayer, sung after the lighting of the Menorah.
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