The Chai Times #63 // Does Chanukah End?
Dec 23, 2022 7:48 pm
Think:
Every night of Chanukah we increase in light. One flame becomes two, then three … until all eight flames illuminate the darkness.
But what happens on the 9th night? Or the 10th? How can a holiday that symbolizes the ever-increasing power of light over darkness, seem to fizzle out into nothingness, leaving us forlorn in the cold inky blackness of the longest nights of the winter?
The answer is that on the nights after Chanukah WE are the lights. We burn with the flame of a body possessed of a G-dly soul. We have an inner fire that no wind can put out, no water can douse. Like the ice itself that becomes a vessel of light, after Chanukah we realize that the greatest fire and source of them all burns within us.0
Wishing you an uplifting Shabbat!
Rabbi Mendy & Mussy
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Massive thanks to Ben Kogut as well as Jerrod and Sara Kogut for presenting the party, Idle Hands for hosting, Mazel Tov Kocktial Hour for the music, Jonathan Berney AKA Judah the Macabee and the numerous volunteers for helping bring together the most beautiful Chanukah party.
Photo albums coming early next week on Instagram and Facebook!
Of interest:
A year without Hanukkah? It’s a mathematical certainty in the year 3031
In a 2011 letter sent to the Times, the perfect short story about a yeshivah student and a menorah can be found: A Stranger at the Door
A Simpsons animator designed the puppets for this weird, wonderful 80s Hanukkah special.
Listen: This Chasidic tune, called the Kremenchuker Berlach - after the cadre of chasidim named Berel from Kremenchug, Ukraine who made it famous - will etch itself into your soul.
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