Soul Candles: Ancestral Practice and Candle Crafting

Musée du Montréal juif | Museum of Jewish Montreal 5220 St. Laurent blvd., Montréal

On February 18, join us for a candle-making workshop that explores participatory ritual, tradition, and ancestral connection. Facilitated by artist Sof Kreidstein, this creative workshop is focused on the old Ashkenazi custom of making soul candles out of beeswax. This centuries-old practice, called feldmestn (Yiddish) was carried out by women in Eastern Europe...