Articles #חנוכה

Hanukkah is a holiday that calls us to do. Who calls on us to take responsibility in all areas of life, and also in relationships.

If we are a strong, complete and safe house, a good, stable and loving relationship, we can go out with this light and go through the opening towards the outside. The winds blowing outside will not be able to extinguish the candles we lit "at the door of our houses from the outside".

The miracle of Hanukkah did not begin with a miracle at all. It began with a family that refused to accept the evil of the decree. It rejoiced and resisted and fought to bring G-d and faith back into everyday life. It began with a family that refused to give up Shabbat and circumcision, and did not agree that their daughter would fall into the impure hands of the local Greek minister. And they almost did not believe that they were truly capable, but suddenly they won (few against many), and suddenly they managed to conquer Jerusalem and reach the Temple, and suddenly they had the opportunity to light the menorah again, to illuminate the darkness of the war with great light.

Some will get to know each other at the branch, be part of the same group, stay up late at night to color a holiday calendar for thirty campers, compete over which activity to do just before the start of winter (he will want to play Sarah's Life, she will want a deep, wintery message) and someday the spark will happen. At first they will hide it, but in the end it will become the most open secret there is, and they will find themselves under the canopy.