The Power of Shabbat Candles

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Aaron L Raskin’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] in the Bible we find when yizak meets up with Rifka for the first time his wife to be he brings her into the tent of his mother s and says Rashi there why did he bring her into the tent of his mother s to see her into the tent of his mother s to see if she had the same qualities as s what were the great qualities of s says Rashi number one that when she lit the candles Friday afternoon the candles burned the entire week number two that there was a miracle in her dough there was always enough food and dough and bread for the guests and thirdly that guests and thirdly that a Cloud of Glory hovered over her tent implying that the sh the divine presence was there alluding to the Mitzvah of Mikvah the Mitzvah of family Purity and when Rifka came into the tent of s all of these three Miracles once again reappeared and that is when Rifka lit the candles Friday afternoon at last the entire week and number two is that when entire week and number two is that when she made the Kal for shabas there was enough do and Kal for all the guests and number three when she came into the tent of s once again The Cloud of Glory reappeared and therefore our rabbis tell us that even though a woman is obligated to keep all of the negative Commandments in the Torah and all of the positive Commandments that are not restricted to a specific time zone and in general says the that there's a difference of 14

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1. 0:02[Music] in the Bible we find when yizak meets up with Rifka for the first time…
2. 3:06candles what does this Mitzvah represent why was it given to the women and what are…
3. 6:46appropriate today and that is because after so many years so many girls and so many…
4. 9:48children and as the Zohar says by lighting these candles we will give birth to candles…
5. 13:25imply we know that there are 248 positive Commandments and each commandment we are supposed to…
6. 16:28beginning but everywhere and throughout Jewish history we find that the women were first when it…
7. 20:03which is the the main stay of the home the source of the life and and…
8. 23:12holiday of shab we light the candle before the holiday of Passover because this adds to…
9. 26:47importance of this Mitzvah by giving s just likea everybody knows is a very important Mitzvah…
10. 29:50into the promised land and by praying at the time of candle liting this will no…

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