 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: 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 translation of “Adonai boker e’erokh lekha” by Rabbi David Aaron de Sola of a piyyut by an unknown paytan was first published in his Ancient Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews (1857). . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags:  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: |