{"id":2426,"date":"2016-12-04T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2016\/12\/04\/how-to-light-shabbat-candles-conservative-tradition"},"modified":"2018-06-12T15:43:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T12:43:26","slug":"how-to-light-shabbat-candles-conservative-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2016\/12\/04\/how-to-light-shabbat-candles-conservative-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Light Shabbat Candles: Conservative Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article provides a concise overview of the ritual of lighting Shabbat candles in the home on Friday night, including where, when, by whom, and how the candles should be lit. The article provides a step-by-step guide, as well as an English transliteration and translation of the blessing.\u00a0<\/em>This description is provided by the United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism<\/a>, the primary organization of synagogues practicing Conservative Judaism in North America.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lighting Shabbat Candles<\/h2>\n

Lighting Shabbat <\/em>candles on Friday as evening approaches delineates the beginning of Shabbat. T<\/em>he candles should be lit at the place where the meal will be eaten.<\/p>\n

To prepare for candle lighting, find out from your synagogue bulletin the correct candle-lighting time or obtain a calendar with Jewish information from a local organization. Candles are lit between a half hour and 15 minutes before sunset with many authorities holding that the proper time is at least 18 minutes before. Choose a place for the candles to stay throughout Shabbat. <\/em>Set your candles in the candlesticks and have a match and matchbook set beside them. Finally, at candle-lighting time, assemble the family.<\/p>\n

The order for lighting candles at the beginning of Shabbat <\/em>is unique. Normally a brakhah <\/em>is said immediately before doing a mitzvah, fulfilling a commandment, and the mitzvah <\/em>follows without interruption after the brakhah. <\/em>Since Shabbat <\/em>starts once we say the brakhah, <\/em>we cannot light the candles after saying the brakhah. <\/em>We solve this problem by performing this mitzvah <\/em>in the following order:<\/p>\n

1. Light the Shabbat candles. Every Jew is obligated to light candles; when both man and woman are present, traditionally the woman has lit them for all who are present because this is one of the mitzvot <\/em>traditionally assigned to women.<\/p>\n

2. Many follow the custom of drawing their hands to their faces three times in a circular motion, beckoning Shabbat to enter.<\/p>\n

3. After the third circle, the person saying the brakhah <\/em>closes her\/his eyes and\/or shields the eyes with the hands and says the brakhah:<\/em><\/p>\n

Barukh atah Adonai Eloheinu, melekh ha’olam, asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tzivanu l’hadlik ner shel Shabbat.<\/em><\/p>\n

Praised are You, Adonai <\/em>our God, Who rules the universe, instilling in us the holiness of mitzvot <\/em>by commanding us to kindle the light of Shabbat.<\/em><\/p>\n

4. After the brakhah, <\/em>the eyes are uncovered, and the person who has made the brakhah <\/em>then looks at what are now the lit Shabbat <\/em>candles for the first time. Personal prayers of thanks may be silently added after the brakhah. <\/em>It is customary for everyone to wish each other “Shabbat Shalom.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article provides a concise overview of the ritual of lighting Shabbat candles in the home on Friday night, including where, when, by whom, and how the candles should be lit. The article provides a step-by-step guide, as well as an English transliteration and translation of the blessing.\u00a0This description is provided by the United Synagogue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[372],"tags":[233,257,373,291,297,254],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/"}],"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\/6\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2427\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}