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Lighting the Sabbath and Festival Candles
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This woodcut depicts Jewish women and girls lighting candles to mark the beginning of the Sabbath or a holiday. The illustration appears in a Yiddish translation by Shim’on Levi Gintsburg, printed in…

Contributor:

Isaac Tyrnau, Shim’on Levi Gintsburg

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1600

Subjects:

Women, Holidays, Sabbath, Ritual & observance, Dress

Categories:

Print & book culture, Household objects
Printed page with Yiddish text below illustration of women and children lighting a hanging lamp next to dining table.
Seder mitsvot ha-nashim (The Order of Women’s Commandments): On the Sabbath Eve
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Every woman is obligated to kindle lights on the eve of each Sabbath and Festival and this is a great mitzvah. And she makes the blessing, “Blessed are You God, our Lord, King of the universe. Who has…

Contributor:

Benjamin Slonik

Places:

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Poland)

Date:

1577

Subjects:

Women, Holidays, Sabbath, Ritual & observance, Sin, Theology

Categories:

Theology