Yom Kippur 2024 Candle Lighting. Memorial customs, including lighting a yizkor (memorial) candle and joining in congregational yizkor (memorial) prayers on yom kippur and on the last days of sukkot, pesach (passover), and shavuot,. For passover, shavuot, sukkot, and simchat torah.
Another reason for lighting these candles, according to tradition, relates to moses’ coming down from mount sinai on yom kippur with the second set of tablets bearing the ten commandments (he. Blessing on one candle or two?