Chabad: How to Light Shabbat Candles

Chabad: How to Light Shabbat Candles

This short instructional video describes and illustrates step-by-step instructions on how to light the Friday night Shabbat candles at home. This video is complete with the recitation of the blessing that is said over the candles, along with the Hebrew and English transliterated texts. It also provides helpful tips along the way, including by whom and how the Shabbat candles are lit according to the Orthodox Ashkenazic tradition. This video is a great companion for those who are learning for the first time how to light the Shabbat candles. The video is from Jewish.TV, the video channel of Chabad.org, the official website of the Hasidic Chabad-Lubavitch movement, which has a strong emphasis on Jewish outreach.