HADLAKAT NEROT – CANDLE LIGHTING The lights kindled before Shabbat and Yom Tov symbolize the Divine Presence (“The LORD is my light,” Ps. 27:1), as well as shalom bayit, the domestic peace that prevails when a home is filled with the love between husband and wife, parent and child, sustained and strengthened by the love of God. In the soft luster of this holy light we see the pristine beauty of the familiar and recover a sense of the sacred, the immanence of transcendence, as it bathes the faces of those we love with its radiance.