{"id":2258,"date":"2017-11-13T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2017\/11\/13\/pre-candle-lighting-tzedakah-custom-for-children"},"modified":"2018-06-12T14:48:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T11:48:33","slug":"pre-candle-lighting-tzedakah-custom-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2017\/11\/13\/pre-candle-lighting-tzedakah-custom-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Candle-Lighting Tzedakah Custom for Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ritualwell.org\/ritual\/tzedakah-customs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">short post <\/a>suggests a creative way to involve children in the custom of giving charity before lighting Shabbat candles. O<span id=\"region-content\">riginally published in &#8220;A Kolot Egalitarian Bentcher: Shabbat Blessings and Customs for Your Home&#8221;(Philadelphia, PA: Kolot, 2001), this tradition was shared by\u00a0<\/span>Julie Korostoff and Christer Larson and posted on\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\">Tzedakah Customs<\/h2>\n<p>In our home before Shabbat we set a dollar at everyone&#8217;s place, on top of the napkin. Then before we light candles, our daughters, ages four and two, go around and collect the tzedakah\u00a0from each person in a special Tupperware container we have transformed into our tzedakah box. They take immense joy from their participation in this ritual. Every few months we collect a few pieces of mail from non-profit organizations that we think would interest the girls and ask them to choose where to send the tzedakah money they have gathered.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"page-title\" class=\"title\"><\/h2>\n<p class=\"title\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short post suggests a creative way to involve children in the custom of giving charity before lighting Shabbat candles. Originally published in &#8220;A Kolot Egalitarian Bentcher: Shabbat Blessings and Customs for Your Home&#8221;(Philadelphia, PA: Kolot, 2001), this tradition was shared by\u00a0Julie Korostoff and Christer Larson and posted on\u00a0Ritualwell, a project of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[372],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/"}],"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=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2259\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}