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Candle Lighting Wizard
Why Shabbat Candles ... Who Lights ... Times for Candle Lighting ... Charity before Lighting ... Kindle the Lights ... The Blessing ... Welcome the Shabbat ... | |
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Oil, Wick, Vessel, Flame
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
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  2 Comments | |
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A Missed Opportunity
By Sara Esther Crispe
Everything had changed. What was holy and productive one minute, was negative and destructive the next. It is not just about the action, it is about the timing... 9 Comments | |
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Shades of Light
By Adin Even-Yisrael (Steinsaltz)
The single wicks of the Shabbat candles, exuding calmness, repose and homeliness; the braided torch accompanying the departing queen, lighting the darkness that becomes more marked in her absence... | |
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Three Levels of Femininity
A Kabbalistic Understanding of Candlelighting
By Asher Crispe
It is in the power of women to ignite the souls of all human beings—to be the catalyst for their emerging out of spiritual dormancy and to become beautiful expressive flames that rises upwards toward their Creator. 6 Comments | |
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Hanging By a Wick
By Vanessa Paloma
I attended Catholic school, and I was instructed by my parents not to believe anything they taught me but to follow along. To say the least, I was a spiritually confused child... 6 Comments | |
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Shalom Shabbat
By Rivkah Slonim
In the endless conflict between earth and spirit, sheer weight often
wins out. Shabbat is a reunion with our inner selves, a return to the
primal oneness of our souls 1 Comment | |
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A Trick of the Eye
By Tzvia Eisenberg
Suddenly I saw a kaleidoscope-like view of all the individual candles, but they were no longer individuals. Each flame had burst into a circle of light, glowing within itself while extending outward... 2 Comments | |
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