One house, many practices
NAGI Heritage
The practices that do not yet have a line of their own, and the earth-based range that sits outside all of them. Sourcing matters more here than anywhere on the shelf.
Sourcing
What this line is made of, and where it comes from
This is the line where sourcing matters more than anything else on the shelf, because two of the three headline materials are under real pressure and the market around them is not careful.
White sage
Salvia apiana is central to the ceremonial practice of a number of Indigenous nations of the American Southwest, and wild stands have been badly hit by commercial picking over the last two decades. Everything we sell is farm-grown on cultivated ground, never wild-harvested, and we hold the grower record for each lot. If we cannot get that record, we do not buy the lot.
Palo santo
Bursera graveolens only develops its resin in wood that has died and lain on the forest floor for several years, so the material is gathered rather than felled — and in Peru that gathering is licensed. Our lots come from a permitted cooperative in Piura and we hold the permit reference against each one. Anyone selling palo santo without being able to tell you that is selling you a question mark.
Ceremonial candles
Soy wax poured by hand in Delhi and scented with frankincense essential oil rather than a synthetic fragrance compound. The throw is quieter for it and the resin note reads closer to the burning gum than to a perfume version of it. Cotton wick, no lead and no zinc core.
A note on how this is sold elsewhere
A great deal of this category is marketed on what it will do for you — clear your space, shift your energy, change your luck. We do not write that copy and we will not. We can tell you what the plant is, who grew it, what permit it moved under and how it is burned. What it means is yours.
Incense, Resins & Smudge · Ritual Candles & Lamps · Travel Altar Kits
Shabbat and Hanukkah candles
A short line, and deliberately so. We stock the two candles that get used every week and every winter, and we have made sure the counts and the dimensions are right rather than padding the range out with things we would be guessing at.
Shabbat candles
Slim white tapers cut to seat properly in a standard candlestick without wedging or wobbling, which is the entire job of this candle and the thing cheap ones get wrong. Around three hours each, comfortably past nightfall. Two are lit at the start of Shabbat and more in many households, so they come seventy-two to a box rather than in pairs. Unscented and undyed.
Hanukkah candles
Forty-four to a box. That is not a round number by accident — one candle on the first night rising to eight on the last, plus a shamash each night, is exactly forty-four. Tapered to seat in a standard menorah cup and burning around thirty minutes, a little past the customary minimum. They ship in a moulded tray so they arrive straight, because a bent taper will not sit in a menorah.
What we do not sell
No menorahs, no kiddush cups, no mezuzot and nothing containing text. Ritual objects that carry Hebrew text, and anything requiring a sofer, need sourcing and handling we are not set up for, and a trading house guessing at that does nobody a favour. Candles we can do properly.
Nothing here is certified kosher. If that matters for your use, check with your rabbi before ordering.