Shabbat Candles

Learn the inner reasons, historical context, and basic how-to instructions for lighting Shabbat candles.

Simple-to-follow instructions on how to light the Shabbat candles.

Miri demonstrates how one little candle puts a lot of power into the hands of one little girl. Or is it really just one little girl?

A true story of a rabbi visiting amongst Eskimos in search of Jews and the incredible way a young girl discovers how her lighting Shabbat candles is so special. (This clip is from the Pre-Shabbat Party program by Friendship Circle)

One of the great mitzvah campaigns the Rebbe initiated was that all Jewish women, and even young girls, light the Shabbat candles, which usher in the holiness of the day. Though this mitzvah is merely rabbinic in origin, yet in this class we uncover the i...

Learn the laws and customs to properly perform the mitzvah of lighting candles for Shabbat.

Join in on the beautiful mitzvah of lighting Shabbat candles on Friday late-afternoon (at least eighteen minutes before sunset) to usher in the Sabbath.

Lighting candles to honor the Sabbath is a duty incumbent upon both men and women. How and why, then, did this ritual become “a woman’s mitzvah”? What is the special connection between women and Shabbat candles?

How to light the candles before Shabbat and Holidays.

Each Friday, 18 minutes before sunset, everything stops and we usher in the Shabbat with the lighting of the candles. Rebbetzin Rivkah Denburg of Boca Raton shares some personal thoughts on the meaning of lighting the Shabbat candles