Shabbat Candles
Shabbat candles (Hebrew: נרות שבת) are candles lit on Friday nights, 18 minutes before sunset, to usher in the Jewish Sabbath. Lighting Shabbat candles is a rabbinically mandated law. Candlelighting is traditionally done by the woman of the household, but in the absence of a woman, it should be done by a man. After lighting the candles, the woman waves her hands over them, covers her eyes, and recites a blessing.
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““... And maybe we are all the same
Where no candles are,
And maybe we are all the same
That strip the body bare.”
O my dear, O my dear.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)