Seder mitsvot ha-nashim (The Order of Women’s Commandments): On the Sabbath Eve

Benjamin Slonik

1577

Every woman is obligated to kindle lights on the eve of each Sabbath and Festival and this is a great mitzvah. And she makes the blessing, “Blessed are You God, our Lord, King of the universe. Who has sanctified us with His commandments and commanded us to kindle the Sabbath light.” In Yiddish translation this is, “Blessed are You God, our Master…

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This book, which was published in Yiddish in 1585 as Eyn shoyn froyan bikhleyn, deals with the three commandments specifically incumbent upon women.

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Benjamin Slonik

1550–1619

Benjamin Aron Slonik was likely born in Grodno or nearby Tykocin. He lived in Kraków, where he studied with Moses Isserles and Solomon Luria, the leading authorities of his days. Slonik served as rabbi in Podhajce and Silesia. He wrote his Seder mitsvot ha-nashim (The Order of Women’s Commandments) in 1577, while he was still a young rabbi.

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