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Chabad.org provides daily, date-specific information relevant to each day from Jewish history, daily Torah study, candle-lighting times, and forthcoming Jewish holidays. [7] Chabad.org maintains a number of sub-sites, including Weekly Magazine email on Torah and contemporary life.
Shabbat candles (Hebrew: נרות שבת) are candles lit on Friday evening before sunset to usher in the Jewish Sabbath. [1] Lighting Shabbat candles is a rabbinically mandated law. [2] Candle-lighting is traditionally done by the woman of the household, [3] but every Jew is obligated to either light or ensure that candles are lit on their ...
On December 10, 1997, the Internet's first widely celebrated Interactive Menorah was the premiere greeting for the New York Times 'Cyberseason's Greetings' section of their website. This digital Menorah allowed users to celebrate the holiday from anywhere, lighting candles with a mouse click.
The shammash candle is the only one lit with a lighter or match, and its light is used to set the rest of the candles aglow throughout the eight evenings. Candles should ideally burn for at least ...
A public Hanukkah menorah in Donetsk, Ukraine.. A public menorah is a large menorah displayed publicly during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.It is done to celebrate the holiday and publicize the miracle of Hanukkah, and is typically accompanied by a public event during one of the nights of Hanukkah attended by invited dignitaries who are honored with lighting the menorah.
Havdalah candle, kiddush cup, and spice box Havdalah candles in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland. Like kiddush, havdalah is recited over a cup of kosher wine or grape juice, [4] although other important beverages (chamar ha-medinah) may be used if wine or grape juice are not available. [2]: 141
Every president since has recognized Hanukkah with a special menorah-lighting. [4] President Ronald Reagan is credited with naming it the National Menorah in a statement read during the menorah-lighting in Lafayette Park in 1982. [5] As of 2013, the Menorah was 30 feet (9.1 m) high, [5] and rested on an elevated platform 2 feet (0.61 m) high ...
Chabad mitzvah campaigns, or Mivtzo'im (Hebrew: מבצעים) refer to several campaigns launched by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson. From 1967 to 1976, Schneerson said all Jews should observe ten basic "beginner's mitzvot " (commandments) . [ 1 ]