As a messianic Jew without institutional ties, the sanctification of Shabat is very important to me. The Shabat candle plays a very large role in this. It is a purple, 16 cm high candle with a diameter of 6.5 cm; Brand “wheat grain”. This name reminds me of the word of Jesus, which asks us humans to respect ourselves like a grain of wheat and not to speculate with the “rapture”. Devotion to God’s will is my concern.
This morning I had to “start up” a new candle after the previous 3 x 24 hours and 1 x 16 hours had burned. It is so meaningful to me because God spoke to me through the way he burned. The following 3 memories are the most important for me:
1. I had not extinguished the candle after the end of Shabat, but instead let it continue to burn for reasons that were no longer inventive. When I went down the stairs to the ground floor on Sunday morning, the Shabat candle burned brightly and smoked like a sooting fireplace. I opened the seat door but didn’t extinguish the “fire”. After the service, I invited the interim priest to take a look at the “spook”, which had meanwhile gone out.
I had the following dream of March 20, 2015 before my eyes: Erew Schabat – 29. Adar 5775 – dream 23h30 – a hell trip
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2. The photo corresponds to the view on Shabat morning.
When I thought about it, a custom occurred to me that I practiced after the beginning of Shabat: watering the “Rose of Jericho”.
In my online diary entry of January 9, 2015, I recorded the following:
“Yom Shishi / Shabbat – 18th / 19th Tewet 5775 – the rose of Jericho
Now it has become clear to me that I have profaned my Shabat “liturgy”. This order is very simple. I read the 103rd Psalm before the beginning of the Sabbath and after the end of the Sabbath, because this passage alongside “Our Father” was the first spiritual nourishment after my “Big Bang” experience in 1980. (See in the menu “CV”)
3. In 2016, according to my “unicorn experience”, the 92nd Psalm was added. (See diary October 31, 2016 yom cheni – 29. Tischri 5777 – unicorn; daughter Zion)
I always read it on Shabat morning, after breakfast.