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Contributor(s):	Arthur Waskow
Categories:	The Shmitah Year (Earth's Shabbat)
Tags:	blessings, eco-conscious, kindling, interbreathing, entering, candle lighting, ecoḥasid
	Four blessings to recite upon commencing the Shmitah year in candlelighting for Rosh haShanah, and to add to subsequent shabbat and festival candlelightings. . . .

A Prayer before Candle-lighting, by Chaya Kaplan-Lester

Contributor(s):	Chaya Kaplan-Lester
Categories:	Erev Pesaḥ, Erev Shabbat, Shavuot, Sukkot, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, 7th Day of Pesaḥ
Tags:	potential, 58th century A.M., fire, כוונות kavvanot, kindling, English poetry, Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, entering, welcoming, candle lighting, Light, 21st century C.E.
	Please God Let me light More than flame tonight. More than wax and wick and sliver stick of wood. More than shallow stream of words recited from a pocket book. . . .

תְּחִינָה לִשָּׁבוּעוֺת נאָך ליכט צינדן | Tkhine upon Candlelighting at the Onset of Shavuot

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown Author(s) and Jonah S. Boyarin (translation)
Categories:	Shavuot
Tags:	candle lighting, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Yiddish vernacular prayer, Torah as intercessor, 19th century C.E., kindling, תחינות tkhines, Needing Attribution
	This tekhina (supplication) upon candlelighting for Shavuot in Hebrew and Yiddish appears in the Maḥzor for Shavuot Rav Peninim (Vilna 1911) although we are uncertain whether it first appeared here. We welcome your help in correctly attributing and translating it. . . .

Prière pour Demander la Lumière Divine | A Prayer for Divine Light [upon candlelighting], by Jonas Ennery & Rabbi Arnaud Aron (1852)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (translation), Jonas Ennery and Arnaud Aron
Categories:	Erev Shabbat
Tags:	French vernacular prayer, divine light, 19th century C.E., candle lighting, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., French Jewry
	A prayer on Erev Shabbat upon lighting the Shabbes Candles, in French with English translation. . . .

תְחִינָה פון דיא מִצְוה הַדְלָקַת הַנֵר | Prayer for the Mitsvah of Kindling the Shabbat Lights, by Sarah bat Tovim from the Tkhine of Three Gates (ca. early 18th c.)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Tracy Guren Klirs (translation) and Sarah bat Tovim
Categories:	Erev Shabbat
Tags:	kindling, תחינות tkhines, candle lighting, 56th century A.M., 18th Century C.E., Yiddish vernacular prayer, lamp lighting
	The Prayer for the mitsvot of kindling the lights of Shabbat from the Teḥinah of the Three Gates by Sarah bat Tovim (18th century). . . .

Between the Fires: A Kavvanah for Lighting Candles of Commitment, by Rabbi Arthur Waskow (the Shalom Center)

Contributor(s):	Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center
Categories:	Erev Pesaḥ, Erev Shabbat, Shavuot, Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Sukkot, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, Ecotastrophes
Tags:	eco-conscious, כוונות kavvanot, kindling, English vernacular prayer, ecoḥasid, North America, candle lighting, 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M.
	“Between the Fires: A Prayer for lighting Candles of Commitment” was composed by Rabbi Arthur Waskow, drawing on traditional midrash about the danger of a Flood of Fire, and the passage from Malachi. . . .

A Kavvanah for Welcoming the Shabbat with the Spring Equinox, by Rabbi Yaakov Reef

Contributor(s):	Yaakov Reef
Categories:	the Dry Season (Spring & Summer), Kabbalat Shabbat
Tags:	candle lighting, Aviv, Spring, vernal equinox, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., North America
	In the year 5775 (2015), the vernal equinox coincided with Rosh Ḥodesh Nissan, the Hebrew month known also as Aviv (Spring), as well as the onset of Shabbat, and a total solar eclipse. Here is a short meditation to receive the shabbat in embrace of the new season. . . .

God Our Light, a poem by Rosa Emma Salaman (1845)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Rosa Emma Salaman
Categories:	Erev Shabbat
Tags:	British Jewry, Anglo Jewry, English Romanticism, Derekh Hashem, divine light, פוקח עברים Pokeaḥ Ivrim, Prayers as poems, 19th century C.E., English vernacular prayer, dveykut, candle lighting, 57th century A.M.
	The poem, “God Our Light” by Rosa Emma Salaman, was first published in the Occident and American Jewish Advocate 3:8, Marḥeshvan 5606, November 1845, p.379-380. . . .

Gebete bei dem Anzünden der Lichter Freitag nachts | Prayer at the kindling of the Friday night lights, a teḥinah by Wolf Mayer (1828)

Contributor(s):	Aharon N. Varady (translation), Daniel Bar Sadeh-Weise (transcription) and Wolf Mayer
Categories:	Erev Shabbat
Tags:	candle lighting, תחינות teḥinot, 56th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, German vernacular prayer, German Jewry, lamp lighting, 19th century C.E., Light, kindling
	“Gebete bei dem Anzünden der Lichter Freitag nachts” was translated/adapted by Mayer Wolf and published in his anthology of teḥinot, תְּחִנּוֹת בְּנוֹת יְשֻׁרוּן Gebethbuch für gebildete israelitisch Frauenzimmer (1828) on pp. 107-109. . . .

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