 Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for peace amidst civil disagreement, difference, and strife before the lighting of Shabbat candles on Erev Shabbat. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: Four blessings to recite upon commencing the Shmitah year in candlelighting for Rosh haShanah, and to add to subsequent shabbat and festival candlelightings. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: “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. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: 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. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: entering, welcoming, candle lighting, Light, 21st century C.E., potential, 58th century A.M., fire, כוונות kavvanot, kindling, 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. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: This rhyming paraphrase and translation of the blessing over the lighting of the Ḥanukkiah was written by Jessie Ethel Sampter and published in her Around the Year in Rhymes for the Jewish Child (1920), p. 31. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: 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. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer on Erev Shabbat upon lighting the Shabbes Candles, in French with English translation. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: פוקח עברים Pokeaḥ Ivrim, Prayers as poems, 19th century C.E., English vernacular prayer, dveykut, candle lighting, 57th century A.M., British Jewry, Anglo Jewry, English Romanticism, Derekh Hashem, divine light  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags:  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: The Prayer for the mitsvot of kindling the lights of Shabbat from the Teḥinah of the Three Gates by Sarah bat Tovim (18th century). . . . |