Getting to Know Your Candles - A Hanukkah Writing Workshop with Emily Stern

Getting to Know Your Candles – A Hanukkah Writing Workshop with Emily Stern – NIGHT ONE

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Emily Stern

November 30, 2021

In this series of videos for Hanukkah recorded last year, Emily offers a different teaching and writing exercise for 鈥済etting to know your candles鈥� before lighting Hanukkah candles each night. Corresponding to the number of candles we light each night, these teachings and writing prompts are to help you get in touch with your personal intention and cultivate a unique relationship with your candles each night.听

Join Emily on this first night of Hanukkah to ignite your relationship with The One, the Unity that is all that is before lighting our first candle.听Candle lighting at the end of the video.

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