“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. . . .
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Contributor(s): Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center
Categories:  Rosh Hashanah, Erev Pesaḥ, Yom Kippur, Kabbalat Shabbat, Environment, Shavuot, Sukkot, Ecotastrophes | Tags:  20th century C.E., eco-conscious, kindling, North America, candle lighting, 57th century A.M., kavvanot, English vernacular prayer, ecoḥasid
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories: Kabbalat Shabbat | Tags: fire, kindling, tkhines, Needing Translation, Needing Source Images, Needing Attribution 
This is a faithful transcription of the תחנה פון ליכט בענטשין (“Tkhine for Lighting Candles [for Shabbes]”) as it appeared in the Vilna, 1869 edition. I have transcribed it without any changes from The Merit of Our Mothers בזכות אמהות A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women’s Prayers, compiled by Rabbi Tracy Guren Klirs, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1992. shgiyot mi yavin, ministarot nakeni. If you can scan an image of the page from the 1869 edition this was originally copied from, please share your scan with us. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown Author(s) and Jonah S. Boyarin (translation)
Categories: Shavuot | Tags: 19th century C.E., kindling, Yiddish, tkhines, candle lighting, teḥinot, 56th 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. . . . Contributor(s): Tamar Elad-Appelbaum, R' Amichai Lau-Lavie (translation) and Sheikha Ibtisam Maḥameed
Categories: Erev Shabbat, Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession | Tags: kindling, Palestine, candles, Erets Yisrael, 21st century C.E., 57th century A.M. 
Two mothers, one plea: Now, more than ever, during these days of so much crying, on the day that is sacred to both our religions, Friday, Sabbath Eve Let us light a candle in every home – for peace: A candle to illuminate our future, face to face, A candle across borders, beyond fear. From our family homes and houses of worship Let us light each other up Let these candles be a lighthouse to our spirit Until we all arrive at the sanctuary of peace. . . . 
Shabbat happens, If I let it. . . . Contributor(s): Bonna Devora Haberman
Categories: Ḥanukkah | Tags: Israel, kindling, Progressive Zionism, 21st century C.E., 57th century A.M., lamp lighting, olive oil 
This is an intention that I composed for the conclusion of a performance piece, Inner Fire, created and performed by my Mistabra Institute for Jewish Textual Activism at Brandeis University in 2002. It is as relevant today as ever. Please use it for inspiration when you light Ḥanuka candles. . . . Contributor(s): Yehudis Fishman and צבי אלימלך שפירא
Categories: Ḥanukkah | Tags: 19th century C.E., kindling, Bluzhov, Dinov, Minhag Ḥasidei Dinov, Munkacz, 55th century A.M., Ḥasidic, lamp lighting 
For the purpose of the unification of the Holy One and His divine (feminine) Presence, with trepidation and love and love and trepidation, to unify the name Yud-Kay with Vav-Kay (the four letters of the Tetragrammaton) with a complete unity in the name of all Israel, behold I intend in the lighting of the Hanukkah candle to fulfill the command of my Creator as our wise men of blessed memory have commanded us to repair her root in a supernal abode. . . . Contributor(s): Chaya Kaplan-Lester
Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Kabbalat Shabbat, Leil Pesaḥ, Shavuot, 7th Day of Pesaḥ, Sukkot | Tags: Light, potential, fire, kindling, entering, welcoming, candle lighting, 21st century C.E., 57th century A.M., 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. . . . |
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