candlelighting
How Many Shabbat Candles Should Be Lit
While lighting two Shabbat candles is a widespread custom, Jewish law only requires one.
Candle-Lighting Blessings for Yom Kippur
Blessings for beginning Yom Kippur in Hebrew, English, and transliteration.
What Do Shabbat Candles Have to Do With Eve’s Sin?
According to the Midrash, the lighting of Sabbath candles is a symbolic rectification for Eve's sin in the Garden of Eden. Why?
How to Say the Blessing Over Shabbat Candles
This blessing is recited after the lighting of candles on Friday night.
Why Every Home Needs Its Own Menorah
The tradition of lighting Hanukkah candles in every household teaches that all of us have the power to lighten our little corner of the world.
Hanukkah 2016
Get ready to light the menorah on Dec. 24.
Ask the Expert: Early Candlelighting
How early is too early?
Ask the Expert: Shabbat in the Land of the Midnight Sun
How can I tell when Shabbat starts if it never gets dark?
Shabbat Candles: Some Women’s Customs
What are the customs that shape this tradition?