{"id":2084,"date":"2017-05-04T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2017\/05\/04\/humanist-liturgy-for-lighting-shabbat-candles"},"modified":"2018-07-09T17:43:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T14:43:03","slug":"humanist-liturgy-for-lighting-shabbat-candles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2017\/05\/04\/humanist-liturgy-for-lighting-shabbat-candles\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanist Liturgy for Lighting Shabbat Candles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Shabbat candle lighting <a href=\"https:\/\/ritualwell.org\/ritual\/lighting-shabbat-and-festival-candles-humanist-liturgy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ceremony<\/a> was composed by\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: 400;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.machar.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Machar: The Washington Congregation for Secular Humanistic Judaism<\/a>. Typical of this movement, founded in 1963 by the late Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine, the blessing omits any mention of God, as Humanistic Judaism enables people of any ethnic or religious background to cherish Jewish history, culture, and ethics without worshipping a supernatural being. The strong emphasis on community\u00a0 is evident in the communal nature of the blessing, as well as a strong theme of relationships\u00a0within the text itself. The Hebrew, English and transliterated text of the blessing can be found on<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ritualwell.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ritualwell<\/a>, a project of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College that provides a platform for creating new Jewish practices and observances.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"page-title\" class=\"title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Lighting Shabbat Candles: Humanist Liturgy<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Leader Says:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u05e0\u05b0\u05d1\u05b8\u05e8\u05b5\u05da\u05b0 \u05d0\u05b6\u05ea \u05d4\u05b8\u05d0\u05d5\u05b9\u05e8 \u05db\u05bc\u05b7\u05d0\u05b2\u05e9\u05c1\u05b6\u05e8 \u05e0\u05b4\u05e7\u05b8\u05d1\u05b5\u05e5 \u05d1\u05bc\u05b0\u05e6\u05b7\u05d5\u05ea\u05b8\u05d0 \u05dc\u05b0\u05d4\u05b7\u05d3\u05b0\u05dc\u05b4\u05d9\u05e7 \u05e0\u05b5\u05e8\u05d5\u05b9\u05ea \u05e9\u05c1\u05b6\u05dc \u05e9\u05c1\u05b7\u05d1\u05bc\u05b8\u05ea (\u05d5\u05b0\u05d9\u05d5\u05b9\u05dd \u05d8\u05d5\u05b9\u05d1). \u05d1\u05bc\u05b0\u05d0\u05d5\u05b9\u05e8 \u05e0\u05b0\u05d1\u05b8\u05e8\u05b5\u05da\u05b0 \u05d0\u05b6\u05ea \u05d4\u05b7\u05d7\u05b7\u05d9\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Transliteration:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>N&#8217;varekh et ha-or\u00a0<\/em><em>ka-asher nikavets b&#8217;tzavta\u00a0<\/em><em>l&#8217;hadlik nerot shel <cite title=\"Shabbat is the Sabbath day, the Day of Rest, and is observed from Friday night through Saturday night. Is set aside from the rest of the week both in honor of the fact that God rested on the seventh day after creating the world. On Shabbat, many Jews observe prohibitions from various activities designated as work.\u00a0Shabbat is traditionally observed with festive meals, wine, challah, prayers, the reading and studying of Torah, conjugal relations, family time, and time with friends. \">Shabbat<\/cite> (v&#8217;<cite title=\"A festival or holiday. Most of the restrictions that apply on Shabbat also apply on a yom tov, with the exception of the prohibitions against cooking and carrying. \">yom tov<\/cite>).\u00a0<\/em><em>B&#8217;or n&#8217;varekh et ha-hayyim.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>All read aloud together:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Let us bless the light as we gather together to kindle Sabbath (and festival) candles. With light let us bless life<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Congregant lights the candles.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Leader:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As we rest from our work taking care of our narrower mundane concerns, let us move toward those more expansive and transcendent. Let us deepen our selves and renew our world by engaging in labors of love: fostering and transforming family and friendships, community and humanity. As we journey together through life, may such flames as these light our ways and ever remind us to share the warmth of our hearts and the hearths of our homes, the rainbow of our wisdoms and the radiance of our inspirations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Shabbat candle lighting ceremony was composed by\u00a0Machar: The Washington Congregation for Secular Humanistic Judaism. Typical of this movement, founded in 1963 by the late Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine, the blessing omits any mention of God, as Humanistic Judaism enables people of any ethnic or religious background to cherish Jewish history, culture, and ethics without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[372],"tags":[253,395,254],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions\/2378\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2085\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}