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Getting to Know Your Candles – a Hanukkah Writing Workshop with Emily Stern – NIGHT 2 2020

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November 30, 2021

How do you relate to the sensations and experiences of giving and receiving? In this series of videos for Hanukkah, Emily offers a different teaching and writing exercise for “Getting to Know Your Candles” for 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. All videos are based on teachings given in the year 2020. Shabbat fell on the second night of Hanukkah in 2020, so this is a meditation for the combined 2nd night and Shabbat. The prompt would be: HOW DO I RELATE TO THE SENSATIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF GIVING AND RECEIVING?

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