Shabbat Honors Request

Please use this form to request Shabbat honors. You will be able to sign up for Shabbat candle lighting, request a blessing, and/or choose to sponsor an oneg.

To get started, please fill in your email address and phone number and answer the questions below.

Your Email Address:

Your Phone Number:

Would you like to light the Shabbat candles?

Shabbat Candle Lighting

At Temple Beth El, we like to invite our members to lead the congregation in lighting candles to welcome Shabbat. This includes offering an English reading and reciting the blessing* in Hebrew. Often, those who light candles are celebrating a special event or milestone.

*Please note that, since this act fulfills a commandment, at least one person lighting the Shabbat candles needs to be Jewish.

Who will be lighting candles?

Are you lighting candles in honor of a particular event?

Please select the service at which you'd like to light candles.

Would you like to request a special blessing?

Request a Special Blessing

While blessings come to us in many different ways, and each of us can bring blessing to others and ourselves, it can be meaningful to receive a blessing from the clergy while surrounded by the community. Typically, clergy offer blessings for milestone birthdays or anniversaries, upon recovering from a major illness, before a wedding, and after conversion. Clergy may also offer blessings for other meaningful moments as requested.

Please indicate why you would like a special blessing and clergy will reach out if they have questions or want to talk about it further.

* Who is this blessing for?

What is this blessing for?

Please select the service at which you'd like to receive a blessing.