25 December 2022

Christmakah

Today, Christmas and Channukah overlap.  I love these images:



My rabbi sent out this set of wishes, and I posted each one with a photo of my candles each night:

1.   May the candles brighten our hearts and souls and remind us of all the GOOD in our world.

2.   May they give us COURAGE to be ourselves and resist the latest trends around us.

3.  May the Shamos - the helper candle -remind us that we can HELP spread light in our darkened world, we must help others.

4.  May we TRUST that there will be enough. That what we have is enough. That what we are is enough. For that cruse of oil that shouldn't have sufficed, sufficed.

5.  May the give us HOPE - All too often we are told, there is no more oil left to burn when there is - “The proper response that Chanukah teaches is not to curse the darkness, but to light a candle.”

6.  May we have FAITH - as we light these candles. Remember we light the candles when it is darkest.

7.   May we SHARE our light with others. We are taught that we should place our menorah on our windowsills, so that the light invades the darkened streets and alleys.

8.  May we remember that our future has not been written yet. If our observance of this holiday strengthened our bonds to our past and to those around us, if we can focus on the light over the dark, if we can share the light with others and brighten our world, and if we can REDEDICATE ourselves to that which is holy, then our observance of Chanukah was meaningful and worthy. 


I hope that whichever holiday you celebrate, you have warmth and peace and light.

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