Family and Friends (Australian TV series) Family and Friends (Australian TV series) Family and Friends is a short-lived Australian television soap opera debuted on 7 February 1990. The series was intended to be the Nine Network's response to the already successful soaps on the rival channels - "Neighbours" and "E Street" on the Network Ten and "Home and Away" on the Seven Network. Set in a suburban community the series focused on two families - the Chandler and the Italian-Australian Rossi families - who were linked by a long-standing vendetta stemming from an accidental death in the 1950s. Old enmities were renewed by the Romeo-and-Juliet style
Shabbat candles reciting the blessing. The requirement to light "Shabbat" candles is thus of rabbinic origin. It is traditional to light two candles, but in some homes an additional candle is lit for each child. The lighting of "Shabbat" candles has a dual purpose: To "honor "Shabbat"" (כבוד שבת) and create shalom bayit or domestic peace ("שלום בית"). In Yiddish, lighting the candles is known as "licht bentschen" ("light davening") or "licht tsinden" ("light kindeling"). Chabad families add the word ""kodesh"" ("holy") at the end of the blessing, making "... the candle of holy "Shabbat"," ("ner shel Shabbas kodesh"). Shabbat candles "Shabbat"