LOS ANGELES (JTA) — There will be no eerie glow coming from your Havdalah candle on Saturday evening, Oct. 31. No boiling or toiling in your Kiddush cup or smell of sulfur in your spice box. Shabbat ...
Kveller via JTA — I’ve always been a big believer in the family Shabbat experience. In our family, we light Shabbat candles together every Friday night in our dining room — a room our boys so rarely ...
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Havdalah is the beginning of the workweek, when our hands begin to be productive once more. The use of a multi-wicked candle parallels the plural “lights of fire” which is said in the blessing. It is ...
Tzfat Candles, located in the old city, sells hand-dipped, woven and sculpted candles for Jewish ceremonial purposes and beyond. In addition to brightly colored beeswax and paraffin candles for ...
This is the third installment in a new monthly series, “Of Sacred Items And Gorgeous Tchotchkes,” looking closely at the Judaica items that fill our homes. Judaism is, by and large, a religion of ...
What is it about candle light that so draws us, like moths, to its flames? Watching children mesmerized by Shabbat candles, birthday candles and Havdalah candles opens the heart to the experience of ...