{"id":2107,"date":"2017-06-02T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2017\/06\/02\/shabbat-sweet-unique-melody-shabbat-candle-lighting"},"modified":"2018-06-12T15:06:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T12:06:37","slug":"shabbat-sweet-unique-melody-shabbat-candle-lighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2017\/06\/02\/shabbat-sweet-unique-melody-shabbat-candle-lighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Shabbat Sweet: A Unique Melody for Shabbat Candle Lighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rddhdJcVyd8\">video<\/a>, Billy Kaplan offers a unique rendition of the blessing over the Shabbat candles (starting at 1:05), including a post-blessing message of hope. In his blessing, the singer replaces the name of God (Adonai) with a euphemism (Adoshem) in order not to recite God&#8217;s name in vain, as he is not actually lighting candles for Shabbat. Billy Kaplan is the creator of &#8220;A Shabbat Sweet,&#8221;&#8216; a Friday night Shabbat service which blends traditional Jewish prayers with melodies that are original, lively and soulful. He is a singer-songwriter of all kinds music: Jewish liturgical music, children\u2019s music, holiday music and adult contemporary music.\u00a0To hear more of his music, visit his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwaJBqPABnuEprtMao5901Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, Billy Kaplan offers a unique rendition of the blessing over the Shabbat candles (starting at 1:05), including a post-blessing message of hope. In his blessing, the singer replaces the name of God (Adonai) with a euphemism (Adoshem) in order not to recite God&#8217;s name in vain, as he is not actually lighting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[372],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/"}],"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\/8\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2306,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions\/2306\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2108\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}