Candle lighting time presents a special opportunity to pray for our lives and home to be filled with peace.
During our matriarch Sarah’s lifetime, her lamps burned from Shabbat eve to Shabbat eve. When she died this light ceased. When Rebecca (Rivkah) married her son Yitzchak, this light returned.
The light that burned from Shabbat eve to Shabbat eve proved that the weekday did not tarnish the holiness that was achieved on the sacred Shabbat. Shabbat infused the light needed for the week. So every Shabbat eve a new light was created to add an influx of light for the next week.
The whole purpose of a Jew is to be a light in the world, this is why Shabbat is a repetitive act, week after week. Our light should never cease, on the contrary, it should be constantly rekindled so it burns always. From mother to daughter, generation to generation.
When lighting your Shabbat candles today, Erev Shabbat, meditate on how everywhere in the world at every time women are lighting their lights at all different hours. Shabbat might have ended somewhere else and it can be beginning in another place. The light goes on and on.
#shabbatshalom
Some excerpts taken from JLI Rosh Chodesh Society
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