The Shabbat Candles

Ok....I can see here its more than me wondering about this traditions Jewish people are doing.......I respect your traditions and this is important for you, but is this lighting Shabbat candles and blessings and so on, are they biblical? Or is it taken from Talmud........from what I can see its not taken from Torah in our bible and then its not a teaching that is from Hashem.........what do you think about this?

That is a lovely video of the women lighting the candles. I am a christian but I look forward to looking more at this site. After WW2 in England I went to school with many jewish girls. I remember them with affection even though it was many years ago as they were so kind to a very shy little girl. I think their parents got out of Germany before the Holocaust or got out of Europe somehow during the war. After the war also we say many items on the news about the camps when they were opened up and it gave me terrible nightmares as a young child to see the terrible things people can do to each other. Best wishes for your site

This video depicted an individual woman's reflection on lighting shabbat candles with her daughters. It did not exclude the idea that men are obligated to light if there are no women in the household. Traditionally, this mitzva is a woman's mitzva.

In a home with no females, either "yet", or "anymore", the male lights the candles and says the blessing. It seems a little disingenuous to say that it's only a female's job, as did this video. Feminism never works both ways, does it?

I would like to know where does Torah specifies to light candles on Shabbat. Thank You and Shalom.

I think this is a beautiful tradition and want to learn all I can about it. However, is it actually written in Torah to light a candle or does it only say to observe the Sabbath and keep it holy?