{"id":2391,"date":"2017-05-04T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2017\/05\/04\/reform-additional-customs-2"},"modified":"2017-05-04T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T00:00:00","slug":"reform-additional-customs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2017\/05\/04\/reform-additional-customs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Light Shabbat Candles: Reform Tradition &amp; Customs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B0_XhZnQew0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a> demonstrates how to light the Shabbat candles and recite the blessing according to the Reform tradition. In <\/em><em>the first of a series of instructional videos, Rabbi Betsy Torop discusses the basic \u2018how tos\u2019 of the ceremony, along with several common customs that people implement at the time of the candle lighting. Complete with the blessing recited and then sung in both English and Hebrew, this video is ideal for beginners who would like to learn about the ritual for the first time.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bethshalom-brandon.org\/about-us\/our-rabbis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rabbi Betsy Torop<\/a> is the spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Shalom of Brandon, FL affiliated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urj.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Union for Reform Judaism<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This\u00a0video demonstrates how to light the Shabbat candles and recite the blessing according to the Reform tradition. In the first of a series of instructional videos, Rabbi Betsy Torop discusses the basic \u2018how tos\u2019 of the ceremony, along with several common customs that people implement at the time of the candle lighting. Complete with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[372],"tags":[257,291,383,387,388,457,283,260,261],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/"}],"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\/12\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}