{"id":2257,"date":"2018-04-25T11:43:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T08:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/04\/25\/post-candle-lighting-tkhine-an-18th-century-prayer-2"},"modified":"2018-07-04T10:22:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T07:22:45","slug":"post-candle-lighting-tkhine-an-18th-century-prayer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/04\/25\/post-candle-lighting-tkhine-an-18th-century-prayer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8220;Tkhine&#8221; for Lighting Candles on Shavuot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/opensiddur.org\/prayers\/special-days\/pilgrimage\/shavuot\/supplication-candlelighting-night-shavuot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tkhine<\/a>\u201d (supplication) is a para-liturgical prayer in Hebrew and Yiddish with an English translation that is\u00a0meant to be recited by a woman after lighting candles to welcome the holiday of Shavuot, an auspicious time for personal prayer. The prayer beseeches God to help the reader observe the Torah, to protect and bless her family, and for the coming\u00a0of the Messiah, and more.\u00a0It appears in the\u00a0Ma\u1e25zor for Shavuot Rav Peninim\u00a0(Vilna 1911), although it is unclear if this is the original source. It was shared by Rivka Zakutinsky in her collection of Tekhinot:\u00a0Tekhinas, A voice From the Heart\u00a0(Aura 1992). The English translation provided here was edited by <a href=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aharon Varady,\u00a0<\/a>a community planner, Jewish educator, and the founding director of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/opensiddur.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Open Siddur Project,\u00a0<\/a>which\u00a0aims to\u00a0liberate the creative content of Jewish spiritual practice as a commonly held resource for adoption, adaptation, and redistribution<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kulam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Shavuot-candle-prayer.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\"  data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Shavuot candle prayer<br\/><\/a>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/opensiddur.org\/prayers\/special-days\/pilgrimage\/shavuot\/supplication-candlelighting-night-shavuot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u05ea\u05bc\u05b0\u05d7\u05b4\u05d9\u05e0\u05b8\u05d4 \u05dc\u05b4\u05e9\u05c1\u05bc\u05b8\u05d1\u05d5\u05bc\u05e2\u05d5\u05ba\u05ea \u05e0\u05d0\u05b8\u05da \u05dc\u05d9\u05db\u05d8 \u05e6\u05d9\u05e0\u05d3\u05df | Te\u1e25inah upon Candlelighting at the Onset of Shavuot<\/a>\u201d\u00a0is shared by Aharon N. Varady (transcription) with a\u00a0<a class=\"external external_icon\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\" rel=\"license nofollow\">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike\u00a04.0\u00a0International<\/a>\u00a0copyleft license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This \u201ctkhine\u201d (supplication) is a para-liturgical prayer in Hebrew and Yiddish with an English translation that is\u00a0meant to be recited by a woman after lighting candles to welcome the holiday of Shavuot, an auspicious time for personal prayer. The prayer beseeches God to help the reader observe the Torah, to protect and bless her family, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[372],"tags":[291,425,379,426,427,428],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/"}],"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\/4\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5621,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions\/5621\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}