Dear Rabbi,
Question:  
I used to visit the Moriah Kindy on Fridays and I want to ask: Why do only the little girls covers their faces when the Imma is lighting the candles for ‘Kabbalat Shabbat’?
Answer:

• Both men and women are obligated to have candles lit in their homes on Shabbat, but the responsibility to light candles is upon women more than on men. Therefore if the woman of the house is home, she takes precedence over her husband in lighting.
• We follow the custom to light before reciting the bracha.
• By covering her eyes with her hands during the recitation she benefits from the light only after the bracha. It is customary for girls in the home to do as the woman of the house does by also covering their eyes.

“You are invited to court next Tuesday”

The brief message that was hanging on the milkman’s door bewildered him. He was an honest man who always behaved appropriately. He never cheated, lied or stole anything. He never drank alcoholic beverages early in the day – a custom outlawed in the village. He had no idea why he was invited to court but the baker knew.

The baker used to buy butter and cheese from the milkman for his baking. One day he suspected that the lumps of butter that the milkman sold him were under a kilo – even though the milkman insisted that each was exactly one kilo.

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IN HIS SPEECH TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL MOSES SAID:

And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul; (deut. 10; 12)

How can we love and be afraid? Why does G-d ask us and not command us?