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chocolate moose
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 Sat, May 27 2006, 11:31 pm
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I'm not exactly sure how it came up in disucssion, but DD didn'tknow that we uscher the licht "in", rather than making a freakish, dance sort of motion with her hands!
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Frumom
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Sun, May 28 2006, 12:04 am
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Are you asking why we bring wave our hands like that 3 times before we light?
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Mama Bear
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Sun, May 28 2006, 12:17 am
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the reason we wave the hands is because youre really supposed to make a bracha BEFORE doing a mitzvah. but with licht, the minute you make the bracha, you've been mekabel shabbos and can't light the candles anymore. So you wave away the lights symbolically before making the brocha, as if you didnt light yet.
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shopaholic
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Sun, May 28 2006, 12:19 am
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My 1.5yr old ds does it too when he sees me light- it's so cute!
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Secbeb
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Sun, May 28 2006, 12:22 am
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I think SaraG is pointing out the difference between ushering in the shabbos with your hands waving towards you and how some people seem to wave their hands like wax on, wax off but together, kind of like jazz hands.
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chavamom
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Sun, May 28 2006, 12:44 am
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WHAT are 'jazz hands' and what is 'wax on, wax off'. Feeling culturally clueless here.
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Secbeb
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Sun, May 28 2006, 12:55 am
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jazz hands, I think, is from Fosse (Broadway something or another) and wax on wax off is from the Karate Kid, movie form the eighties. . .sorry for the non jewish reference, but wax on wax off was the only way I could describe the motion.
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chavamom
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Sun, May 28 2006, 1:18 am
Jazz Hands from 'wikipedia'. And seeing as it's been, oh, 25 years or so since I saw Karate Kid, I'll take your word for it  .
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binah918
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Sun, May 28 2006, 3:04 am
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Some women, instead of bringing the light toward them, wave their hands 3x away from them, symbollically spreading the Shabbos light over creation and the world.
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merpk
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Sun, May 28 2006, 3:32 am
| binah918 wrote: | | Some women, instead of bringing the light toward them, wave their hands 3x away from them, symbollically spreading the Shabbos light over creation and the world. |
Not what I do, but that's nice.
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chen
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Sun, May 28 2006, 12:11 pm
| Mindy wrote: | | the reason we wave the hands is because youre really supposed to make a bracha BEFORE doing a mitzvah. but with licht, the minute you make the bracha, you've been mekabel shabbos and can't light the candles anymore. So you wave away the lights symbolically before making the brocha, as if you didnt light yet. |
I learned that that's why we cover our eyes--to shut out the light, then we uncover our eyes and it's "as if' we just lit. The waving is to beckon the Shabbos in. Why 3 times? anyone's guess.
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nehama
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Sun, May 28 2006, 3:25 pm
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Three times is a chazaka.
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