A candle for a name — as Rabbi Landau teaches it
By Rabbi Shalom Landau.
Rabbi Landau teaches that before Yizkor, Rabbi Landau asks people to put a name to a neshama candle. The Rabbi lights it before Yom Kippur. The teaching under the practical request is that money carries your time, energy and effort, and that when you give, a piece of your life becomes light for someone else. The verse he cites is that the soul of a person is the candle of God.
Source verses
נר ה׳ נשמת אדם
Quoted from the captions of the teachings below.
The takeaway
A name, and a candle, is how remembrance becomes light.
Teachings
From A Soul at Peace
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