Let There Be Light

Four colorful candles with melting wax are burning, each flame glowing brightly in a dark setting.

“In times of hatred, / let there be light. / In times of fear,    let there be light…”

Rosh Chodesh Tevet

A woman in dark clothing gazes into a water basin, seeing her own reflection in the rippling water.

  In the days of lighting candles from left to right (or right to left) of gelt and dreidels, singalongs and latke parties, of remembering and publicizing the miracle of […]

Light Candles Now

Close-up of a row of lit oil candles with glowing flames against a dark background.

“Create new homes / And save the old ones. / Light candles, Now.”

Southbound

Raindrops on a car window with a blurred side mirror in the background, in black and white.

‘Rain does its Glasgow thing, / a mikveh in droplets.”

The Reconstructionist Network

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