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rank Are Birthday Candles Jewish?Questions & Answers
Question: Do Jews place candles on birthday cakes and blow them out? Response: Candles are nice. But some trace the custom of placing candles on a birthday cake to the ancient Greek practice of celebrating the birthday of one of the pagan gods, as ...
Ask the Rabbi » Latest Questions » The Details » Are Birthday Candles Jewish?
rank The WickArticle
The flame represents Torah study (knowledge) and the wick stands for mitzvot (action). The knowledge of morality and spirituality becomes the shining light that guides and illuminates our existence...
Jewish Holidays » Chanukah » Insights & Stories » Light » The Wick
rank A Street Drain, Hot Ice & the Chanuka FlamesArticle
A Lesson In Metaphysics
Are things as they appear to be? Or is everything also its opposite? Is heat hot? Or is it cold as well? Is ice fire? And am I no-thing?
Women » Spirituality & the Feminine » Time in Thought » Chanukah & Kislev » A Street Drain, Hot Ice & the Chanuka Flames
rank A Little LightBlog
Kabalah Toons: Episode XIV
A little light chases away a lot of darkness.
Video » Kabbala Toons » Kabbala of Stuff » A Little Light
rank Candle on the RiverArticle
Kabbalistic meditations on Chanukah show that redemption depends on consciousness
Kabbalah Online » Holidays » Hanukah » The Holy Ari » Candle on the River
rank Burning IceStory
The Baal Shem Tov loved light. So his disciples always made sure to have many candles burning whenever they expected their master...
Library » Stories » Chassidic » Burning Ice
rank Seeing LessonsArticle
Hedonism and ascetics are two sides of this same Hellenic coin: when the soul (flame) meets the body (wick), either the flame gutters out, or it consumes the wick leaving only formless soot behind...
Jewish Holidays » Chanukah » Insights & Stories » The Battle » Seeing Lessons
rank The CandleArticle
You can light thousands of candles from one flame without losing the slightest amount of its light; but put thousands of candles in a room, and there will still be a single light...
Spirituality » Short Insights » Other Authors » The Candle
rank Oil, Wick, Vessel, FlameArticle
The wick would flare and die. The oil is difficult to ignite at all. But when brought together in the lamp, they produce a steady flame. And so it is in the of the "a lamp of G-d" that is our soul
Spirituality » Essays » Oil, Wick, Vessel, Flame
rank Why do Jews sway while praying?Questions & Answers
The Swaying Candle
When we praise G‑d, we do so with all of our being: the mind, heart, and mouth express the prayer through speech, and the rest of the body does so by moving.
Jewish Practice » Jewish Prayer » Insights » Questions and Answers » Why do Jews sway while praying?

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