Shabbat Candles

Miri demonstrates how one little candle puts a lot of power into the hands of one little girl. Or is it really just one little girl?

There are three fundamental mitzvot entrusted to every Jewish woman. Separating challah “from the first of your dough” shows that before benefiting from anything in this world, we “set aside an offering for G‑d.” By knowing that the beginning of ...

The Shabbos candle lighting campaign has yielded far-reaching results. One example from the many reports we received: A little girl, five or six years old, attended a non-religious school in Israel. One day, an older girl spoke to her class about the ...

Each Friday, 18 minutes before sunset, everything stops and we usher in the Shabbat with the lighting of the candles. Rebbetzin Rivkah Denburg of Boca Raton shares some personal thoughts on the meaning of lighting the Shabbat candles

How to light the candles before Shabbat and Holidays.

The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, encourages Jewish women and girls to light Shabbat candles.

The unique role of the Jewish woman is described in terms of three archetypical mitzvahs -- Shabbat candles, family purity, and kosher. How do traditional ideas of Jewish femininity compare to modern feminist ideas about the role of women in society?

In the Mishnah, R' Yehudah says that if a metzorah (one who suffers from Biblical leprosy) enters someone's home uninvited, the home becomes defiled within the amount of time it takes to light the Shabbat candles. What is the deeper, spiritual meaning of ...

Children at the shtetl candle shop speak about the meaning of light in Judaism and the significance of lighting Shabbat candles as well as the Menorah on Chanukah.

A miraculous account of the power of the Shabbos lights (1957).