Svíčka či světlo rozsvícené při výročí úmrtí blízkého příbuzného, na Jom kipur nebo o jiných svátcích.
V Severní Africe jsou jarcajtové lampy převážně skleněné. Jarcajtové lampy z mosazi zavěšené na zdi se nazývají “kandil”.
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Hoz, Yael. “Lehadlik Ner Lifneyi Hashem Le-Shana Achat Le-Menuchat Nefesh: Lukhiyot Ha-Zikharon Mi-Klaf shel Yehudei Italia [To Light a Candle before God for One Year for the Repose of the Soul: Small Parchment Memorial Plaques of the Italian Jews].” Pe’amim: Studies in Oriental Jewry, 98/99, Yad Izhak Ben Zvi, 2004, pp. 155-85.
Oppenheimer, Steven. “The Yahrzeit Light.” Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society, vol. 37, 1999, pp. 101-16.
Sabar, Shalom. “Zikharon Be-Kufsa shel Pach: Nerot Neshama Yisra’eliyim ve-Dimuyihem be-Tarbut ha-Popularit [Memory in a Tin Can: Israeli Memorial Candles and their Images in Popular Culture].” Zhok Ha-Goral: Kelim le-Nerot Neshama ve-le-Nerot Zikharon be-Omanut Yehudit Akhshawit shel Askholat Betzalel [Keep it Light: Vessels for Memorial and Remembrance Candles in Contemporary Jewish Art of the Bezalel School], ed. Shirat-Miriam Shamir et al., Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Biennale, 2017, pp. 27-35, 36e-46e.
Sperber, Daniel. “The Memorial Candle.” The Jewish Life Cycle: Custom, Lore and Iconography – Jewish Customs from the Cradle to the Grave, Ramat Gan and Oxford: Bar-Ilan University Press and Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. 567-87.
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