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לִשְׁמֹר הַשָּׁנָה שֶׁל שְׁמִטָּה | Candlelighting for Rosh haShanah, Shabbat, and Yom Tov during the Shmitah Year, by Rabbi Arthur Waskow

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 Shabbat, Erev Pesaḥ, Shavuot, Sukkot, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, 7th Day of Pesaḥ
Tags:	Light, potential, fire, kindling, entering, welcoming, candle lighting, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, English poetry, Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer
	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:	19th century C.E., kindling, ײדיש Yiddish, תחינות tkhines, candle lighting, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Torah as intercessor, 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. . . .

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 Shabbat, Erev Pesaḥ, Shavuot, Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System, Sukkot, Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Yom Kippur, Ecotastrophes
Tags:	20th century C.E., eco-conscious, kindling, North America, candle lighting, 58th century A.M., כוונות kavvanot, English vernacular prayer, ecoḥasid
	“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. . . .

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 (English translation), Jonas Ennery and Arnaud Aron
Categories:	Erev Shabbat
Tags:	19th century C.E., candle lighting, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., French Jewry, French vernacular prayer, divine light
	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). . . .

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:	North America, candle lighting, Aviv, Spring, vernal equinox, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M.
	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:	19th century C.E., candle lighting, 57th century A.M., British Jewry, Anglo Jewry, English Romanticism, Derekh Hashem, divine light, פוקח עברים Pokeaḥ Ivrim, Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, dveykut
	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. . . .

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