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Shira: why so we say _asher kidshanu bemitsvotav_1 while lighting sabbath candles?
Rabbi Eliezer Gurkow: is the basis of your question that Shabbat candles are a rabbinical commandment?
Shira: yes
Rabbi Eliezer Gurkow: the Torah commands us to obey the rabbis and as such it commands us to light shabbos candles because that is what the rabbis told us to do
Shira: ok what kind of rabbis
Shira: we have many rabbis today that say different things
Rabbi Eliezer Gurkow: we are talking about the Sanhedrin whose rulings were accepted by all Jews2
Rabbi Eliezer Gurkow: with regards to shabbat candles we are talking about rabbis in the days of King Solomon
Shira: wow is this tradition that old?
Shira: i thought it came sometime about 2000 yrs ago
Shira: so a man & his wife won't fight during the sabbath meal
Rabbi Eliezer Gurkow: it is that old
Rabbi Eliezer Gurkow: but it is greater than not fighting during the meal
Rabbi Eliezer Gurkow: that is a simplification of a larger issue
Rabbi Eliezer Gurkow: it is so that there will be light in the home which will bring peace to the home
Rabbi Eliezer Gurkow: peace is not the absence of quarrel, peace is an intangible value all of its own
Shira: thank you for your answer
Shira: I appreciate your help
Rabbi Eliezer Gurkow: Thank you for visiting Ask Moses today and I invite you to come back at any time
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