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Candle-Lighting Reading | Reading
By Gila Gevirtz
Childhood memories of making Shabbat and its meaning to her as a child
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Candle-Lighting Blessings | Prayer
Blessings for lighting Shabbat candles using masculine and feminine God-language. Three women describe their families' practice of lighting Shabbat candles.
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The Woman's Prayer (La Orasion de la Mujer) | Prayer
Melody by Flory Jagoda, recorded by Susan Gaeta
Traditional Sephardic blessing before lighting candles
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A Special Mitzvah: Shabbat Candles | Article
By Jennifer Breger
An article describing the origins of the custom of lighting Shabbat candles and women's relationship to this mitzvah
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Techineh for Lighting Shabbat Candles | Prayer
By Sarah bas Tovim
A Yiddish techineh (traditional woman's prayer), written in the 18th century, for candle lighting
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Giving Tzedakah | Article
By Rabbi Michael Strassfeld
A reading about giving tzedakah before Shabbat
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Teaching Our Children Tzedakah | Article
By Rabbi David A. Teutsch
Strategies for passing on tzedakah practices to the next generation
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Seven Tzedakah Ideas for Shabbat | Article
Seven tzedakah ideas inspired by Shabbat rituals
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Tzedakah Customs | Article
By Julie Korostoff and Christer Larson
How one family practices giving tzedakah before Shabbat
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Blessing for Erev Shabbat Tzedekah | Prayer
By Elyse Wechterman
A blessing for giving tzedakah erev Shabbat
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Like a Mother ever-awed ... | Poem
By Gila Gevirtz
A modern poem about Shabbat to be read as an introduction to Shalom Aleichem
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Malachim Jewish Angel Cards | Article
By Deborah Eisenbach-Budner
These cards, whether purchased or homemade, help create mood and focus for Shabbat, Rosh Chodesh, personal rituals, learning tools, and more.
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Shalom Aleychem | Song
Traditional song sung at the Friday night table welcoming the Shabbat angels
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Blessing Children | Prayer
Traditional blessings for children on Friday night using masculine and feminine God-language. Families share their personal practices for blessing children.
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Blessing One's Children | Prayer
From Kolot
Alternative blessings to the traditional ones of custom
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A Woman of Valor | Poem
By Tamara Cohen
A poem capturing the ambivalence around this traditional song, sung by a husband to his wife at the Shabbat table.
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For Women of Valor, Past and Present | Reading
By Pat Barr z”l, Rabbi Fredi Cooper, and Lori Lefkovitz
A modern version of the traditional Kabbalat Shabbat reading to honor those we admire and value
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"A Woman of Valor" for Today | Song
Music and lyrics by Juliet I. Spitzer
A reinterpretation of the traditional, set to music
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Kiddush | Prayer
Traditional blessing over wine for Friday night using masculine and feminine God-language
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Hamotzi(ah) | Prayer
Traditional blessing over challah using masculine and feminine God-language
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Song of Praise: Holy Mother, Shechinah Soul | Song
Music and lyrics by Rabbi Geela Rayzel Raphael
A modern composition addressing the Shechinah, the Divine feminine
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