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Let There Be: Candlighting

Lawrence Bush

September 17, 2016

An effort to light 365 candles simultaneously. Poem and music by Lawrence Bush.

Lawrence Bush edited Jewish Currents from 2003 until 2018. He is the author of Bessie: A Novel of Love and Revolution and Waiting for God: The Spiritual Explorations of a Reluctant Atheist, among other books. His new volume of illustrated Torah commentaries, American Torah Toons 2, is scheduled for publication this year.

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