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Hanukkah Night #7: Grateful

Tonight we light the 7th candle of Hanukkah. All throughout this holiday, we have been collecting the ways we actively bring light into our lives, or how we recognize the light. Every night we light one more candle, following the principle of gradually increasing the light (Talmud, Shabbat 21b:5)  The experience of being grateful fills …

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Bo

Chanukah Night #7: Grateful

Tonight we light the 7th candle of Chanukah. The question today is: For what 7 things are you grateful?   Here are mine (not in order): Creativity –  the constant flow of ideas and projects that stimulate and give me a zest for life. This takes the form of putting lesson plans together or knitting or …

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Increase the Light

Tonight we light the 3rd candle of Hanukkah. The story of Hanukkah is that even in the darkest of times, we make light. The tradition is that we light a new candle for each of the 8 nights of the holiday, thereby increasing the light each night. The rabbis understood that light was not just …

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what’s born from the rubble

Today is Tisha B’Av (the 9th day of the month of Av.)  It’s the day the ancient temples in Jerusalem were destroyed. Our sages met challenge of the “center not holding” with creativity and resilience. If it weren’t for those rabbis, who created new ways of praying, connecting with the Divine, and gathering together, we …

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