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Candle Lighting Reflections
Women reflect on their experiences of lighting Shabbat and holiday candles
A Shabbat Insight
Friday afternoon rolls around and I unplug my phones, shut down my computer and as I light the Shabbat candles and welcome the holy day of rest, I suddenly find myself connected...
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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
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She strikes the match,
Her concentration as intense as the flame. As the candle wicks flare Her heart fills with joy. |
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...
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"Tell me honestly, don't you ever feel Orthodoxy is unfair in its treatment of women? Aren't the Rabbis degrading to women?"
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One of the lights Mother kindled each Friday night was for me. The full impact of this message did not occur to me until many years later...
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Like many great feats, the towers didn’t go up easily. It was the culmination of decades of political wrangling and years of laborious construction.
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