Yom Kippur Cemetery/Grave Measuring and Soul Candle Making: A Ritual Guide
In many Eastern European Jewish communities in the week between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, women would gather to make soul candles or neshome likht. The tekhines or […]
Cemetery/Grave Measuring and Soul Candle Making: A Ritual Guide
In in times of crisis such as during a plague, a difficult childbirth or a severe illness, Ashkenazi Jewish women used to measure graves and cemeteries with thread. […]
