<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 23px;" class="">31:16-17 <i class="">V'shomru</i>... <i class="">The Children of Israel shall observe the Sabbath...it is a sign forever that in six days </i></span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 23px;" class=""><i class="">God made the heaven and the earth and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed...</i><br class=""> <br class="">The six days of Creation remind us that we were created for this world. </span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 23px;" class="">But the Sabbath reminds us that the world was created for us. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 23px;" class="">Each day is a step closer to the ultimate realization of life's profound meaning.</span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 23px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 23px;" class="">The Talmud says that before Adam sinned, his radiance was like the radiance of God, </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 23px;" class="">but after he sinned, his radiance became darkened. This is why there is the obligation</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 23px;" class="">of lighting the Shabbos candles. The sin of Adam and Eve extinguished the light of the world</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 23px;" class="">and lighting the Shabbos candles symbolically rekindles the light of the world for at least a day.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 23px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 23px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="_Tgc _s8w" style="font-size: 20px;"><font class=""><b class=""><i class="">Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. </i></b></font></span></div><div class=""><span class="_Tgc _s8w" style="font-size: 20px;"><b class=""><i class="">Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. </i></b></span></div><div class=""><span class="_Tgc _s8w" style="font-size: 20px;"><font class=""><b class=""><i class="">We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.</i></b></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 19px;" class=""><b class="">Anonymous</b></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>