Dear Friend,
We hope you are well. In just a few days we will be celebrating our mother's 50th birthday! We want to do something really special for her in appreciation for all the years of devotion and service she has dedicated to our community in Scottsdale.
More than any gift, our mother would appreciate a commitment to a mitzvah in her honor. It would mean so much to her, and to all of us, if you would consider learning about and taking on a new mitzvah, especially in the area of one of the 3 mitzvot of a woman.
There are 3 special mitzvot that are uniquely feminine, even though some can be done by men as well. They are:
1) Taking challah - a portion dedicated to G-d - from her dough. (The bread we eat on Shabbat then became known as challah and the woman usually is the one who bakes it, so we associate it with the woman as well.) The laws of Kosher are also the woman's mitzvah by extension, since she runs the kitchen in the home.
2) Lighting Shabbat candles, before sundown on Friday evening, to welcome in Shabbat and bring peace into her home. It is a mitzvah for girls to light their own candle already from the age of 3, which we actually learn from Rivka. This adds more light into the world!
3) The laws of Family Purity. A married woman has a mitzvah to immerse herself in a mikvah (a purifying body of water) after her monthly cycle, which adds sanctity and blessings to her home and family.
For more information visit: https://www.chabad.org/theJewishWoman/article_cdo/aid/2689640/jewish/Womens-Special-Mitzvot.htm
Thank you so much for your participation!
Chaya and Rabbi Mendel and Chana,
Risa and Rabbi Hertzel and Mendel,
Chasi and Rabbi Sruli,
Chana Leah, Yehudis, Mendel and Dovi
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