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Diane O'Donoghue

 


A well-worn paperback, creases in the spine: S.Y. Agnon’s Days of Awe, my reading for Elul. “Two Kinds of Candles" describes the custom of women making “candles of the soul” prior to Yom Kippur; they also created “candles of health.” I imagine our beautiful sanctuary alight with hundreds of them…

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