One of my favorite wedding gifts was a glass statuette with the tefilla a woman says after hadlakas neiros (candle lighting). It was something I used every week and adorned the small spot on our buffet next to my candlesticks.
Well, after having 3 rambunctious boys, said gift fell on the floor and shattered into many pieces. Too many to glue back together. I looked into buying another hadlakas neiros tefila frame, but the ones I really loved most were priced a bit too high for my budget. So, instead I just used a bentcher.
Then one day it clicked. I could make my own hadlakas neiros tefila frame to have next to my candlesticks.
Like most Jewish families, we have a ton of bentchers. My DH likes to take at least one from every simcha we attend, so our collection is quite large.
To make my own, all I did was find a picture frame I liked and sift through our bentcher collection. I turned to the first page of each bentcher to find one with hadlakas neiros in a layout that I liked. I wanted all the brachos and the tefila to be on the same page. I also had to make sure the bentcher was shaped to fit into my picture frame. (I figured that no one would miss the first page of a bentcher…)
Then I assembled and now I have a beautiful (and frugal) hadlakas neiros tefila to use every week.
What do you think?
Until next time,
Shaindy
Beautiful! The frame you chose is perfect.
Thank you! And the best part is that when I get bored of it or it breaks it’s so easy to replace with a new one 🙂