Candle lighting times for Melbourne: 4.59pm and Sydney: 4.44pm
Connecting through Candle Lighting
Historically, as women, we shine a light of hope and positivity on challenges that confront us in our personal or communal lives. The three week mourning period begins now with the fast day of the seventeenth day of the Hebrew month of Tammuz which commemorates, among other tragic events, the breaking of the luchot, tablets, when the Jewish people worshipped the golden calf.
Is it in fact correct to even say that the Jewish people worshipped the calf because we do know that the women would have no part of it. They adamantly refused to part with their jewellery for this reprehensible cause, and were appropriately rewarded for their stance with the gift of Rosh Chodesh.
To make it very clear, the women were first in their haste to donate their jewellery and more for the Holy Temple and do whatever they could at that occasion to bring more light into this world.
How appropriate is it then that the women have been charged with the special Mitzvah of lighting the Shabbat Candles as a means to spread physical and spiritual light from home to home, community to community bringing the light to the world.
Because light is her essence and to spread light is her mission.
For more on candle lighting read this beautiful article from Chabad.org.
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Our candle lighting whatsapp group has now been transformed to a weekly broadcast. Whether you were one of the 250 women who were receiving the candle lighting times for Sydney and Melbourne, the inspirational messages and the names to pray for at candle lighting as part of our whatsapp group, or you are a newcomer to this concept - we would like to connect with you. Candle lighting time is an auspicious time for women's prayers and we’d like to facilitate this meaningful connection to women in all parts of the world.
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In this way may we help bring healing and light to our world through our connections and prayers.
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