Lighting The Menorah Prayer In English

Candles should be added to the menorah from right to left like hebrew writing.

Lighting the menorah prayer in english.

Each night special hanukkah blessings and prayers are recited before the candles are lit. Candles should be added to the menorah from right to left like hebrew writing. Click here for full lighting instructions and click here for a printable pdf of the blessings first blessing. One candle is added to the menorah each night.

See animation at right. The menorah lamp in modern hebrew is the nine branched candelabra used during the celebration of hanukkah the festival of lights. Hanukkah is also called the festival of lights because it is celebrated with the lighting of candles in a very specific way. Download a printable version of the hanukkah blessings.

On the shabbat of hanukkah kindle the hanukkah lights first and then the shabbat candles. The following two or three blessings are said before the menorah is lit. Candles are added to the hanukkiyah menorah from right to left but are kindled from left to right the newest candle is lit first. The first night you light only the shammus usually the the highest candle and one chanukkah candle.

By the eighth night you light all of the candles. The shammus candle is lit first. Three blessings are said on the first night and only the first and second blessings are said on the other seven nights. By the eighth night you light all of the candles.

Light the shamash the helper candle first using it to kindle the rest of the hanukkah lights. The menorah has eight branches with candle holders in a long line to represent the hanukkah miracle when the oil that was supposed to last only one day burned for eight days the ninth candle holder which is set apart from the rest of the candles holds the. ב רו ך א ת ה א ד נ י א ל ה ינו מ ל ך ה עו ל ם א ש ר ק ד ש נו ב מ צ ו ת יו ו צ ו נו ל ה ד ל יק נ ר. The shammus candle is lit first.