It's the Chanukah Party of the YEAR! yjpaustin.org/lightup - get in before we sell out!

(over 160 already have tickets, we expect close to DOUBLE)

What you can expect:

• Open Bar
• Giant LED Menorah
• Live DJ
• Mazel Tov Kocktail Band - YES that's 2 music sets!
• Latkes
• Donuts
• Sweet Photobooth
• free Menorahs
• Ben Kogut
• surprises + surprises (can't give them all away)

Here is that link again yjpaustin.org/lightup

Thought for the week:

The light of Chanukah transforms darkness into light.

But darkness is the absence of light. How is it possible that the absence of light could be transformed into light?

Because there is nothing without purpose, and purpose is light. It is only that some stories of our life hide their purpose, so that they appear dark.

What must you do? You must squeeze their light out of them, as one squeezes oil from an olive.

It may hurt, at times, to be squeezed this way. But then, those stories of life, too, will shine. And their light will reveal wisdom that no other light could reveal.

That is why we wait until it is dark to light the Chanukah menorah. And that is why we light them in public places.

Because, with these flames, we are igniting the darkness itself, and revealing that even the darkness is truly divine light.​

Wishing you an uplifting Shabbat,

Rabbi Mendy & Mussy

p.s. As always, we would love to chat with you over coffee or drinks, about Judaism, or just life - reply to this email.

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It's the Chanukah Party of the YEAR! yjpaustin.org/lightup - get in before we sell out!

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