{"id":2438,"date":"2016-11-29T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2016\/11\/29\/a-reconstructionist-reflection-before-lighting-shabbat-candles"},"modified":"2018-06-12T15:47:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T12:47:40","slug":"a-reconstructionist-reflection-before-lighting-shabbat-candles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2016\/11\/29\/a-reconstructionist-reflection-before-lighting-shabbat-candles\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reconstructionist Reflection Before Lighting Shabbat Candles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This short reflection, recited prior to light Shabbat candles, is written by Jewish-American poet, <a href=\"https:\/\/margepiercy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marge Piercy<\/a>, and appears in the Reconstructionist Kol Haneshama siddur. It encourages the reader to be grateful of his\/her blessings and mindful of the sacred moment of lighting Shabbat candles. Reconstructionist Judaism is a modern Jewish movement that views Judaism as a progressively evolving civilization in its ongoing relationship with God.\u00a0As an active member of the Jewish renewal movement, Piercy also contributed to the Or Chadash siddur.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>A Reflection Before the Shabbat Candle Lighting<\/h2>\n<p>As the great doors of night are opening we come into the clean, quiet room of Shabbat.<br \/>\nLet us be thankful as we light these candles like eyes of holiness on this moment of peace.<br \/>\nLet us savor the fruit of the vine, the blood of the earth that quickens us.<br \/>\nLet us be thankful for grain, fruit of grasses that feed the cow, the gazelle, and us.<br \/>\nLet us be grateful for the children and the work of the week that are our own fruitfulness.<br \/>\nLet us as we eat never forget that food comes from the earth.<br \/>\nWe must cherish and heal through labor, we must respect and reward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short reflection, recited prior to light Shabbat candles, is written by Jewish-American poet, Marge Piercy, and appears in the Reconstructionist Kol Haneshama siddur. It encourages the reader to be grateful of his\/her blessings and mindful of the sacred moment of lighting Shabbat candles. Reconstructionist Judaism is a modern Jewish movement that views Judaism as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[372],"tags":[373,380,230,297,254],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/"}],"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=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2439\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}