Painting
Woman has the unique Mitzvah to light the Sabbath and Yom Tov candles at a specific time in the universe when Hashem will answer her prayers. While performing this Mitzvah, she meditates upon the concept that the ‘Neshama’ (soul), is likened to the flame, in seeking to detach itself from the wick and soar to its Source above. It is on The Sabbath that we experience leaving behind the six days of the physical world to enter into the spiritual world, the seventh day. We seek to find the ultimate Peace of the approaching eighth day when both body (‘Eretz Yisroel’) and soul, will experience the coming of Mashiach (The Messiah) and the rebuilding of the ‘Beis Hamikdash’ .
 Depicted is woman, in this most quintessential moment, as her hands envelope and unite the light of physical creation with the purity of the spiritual light of Shabbas. She says the words ‘Baruch Hu U-vaRuch Shemo” (Blessed is He and Blessed Is His Name) three times before covering her eyes to recite the Sabbath blessing. She cups her children and the children of past, present and future generations protectively encased within the ‘dudaim’ (jasmine flowers) brought to our ancestral Mother Rachel by her son Reuven, every Friday evening for Shabbas. Her fingers form the shape of a ‘Magen David’(protective Shield /Star of David) upon her inner eye of ‘da’at’, the place of a woman’s knowing, and point where a man places the head piece for the phylacteries, ‘T’fillin’ box.’ Out of the points of the star illuminate the ten rays of light, symbolic of The Ten Commandments. Our prayers are directed to the watchful and protective eye of The Dove of Peace, ‘The Schechinah’, the Essence of The Holy One. The gossamer veil of the Shabbas bride forms the spiritual ‘Matzevah’ (monument) connecting Eretz Yisroel , this world, to the next. 
 The holy sites in Israel depicted are; ‘M-orat Hamachpelah’ (The Cave of Our Ancestors), ‘Kever Rachel’ (the burial place of our Mother Rachel), the olive (aleph) tree, The ‘Ari Hakodesh’s shul in Tzefat, ‘Masada’, ‘Ein Geidi’, and the ‘’Choma’ (Western Wall) in Yerushalyim of Gold. Woman’s tears of pain drip upon Akeidas Yitzchok, (the alter) the ultimate sacrifice to Hashem. Thousands of souls ascend to the ‘Beis Hamikdash’ (3</i><i>rd</i><i> Temple) in the void between the two worlds.
May our prayers unite to bring everlasting Peace into our homes from this world to the Next.