At Hanukkah, a Celebration of Eternal Light − From the Desert Tabernacle to Synagogues Today

Hanukkah starts the evening of December 25, 2024.
Hanukkah starts the evening of December 25, 2024.
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Hanukkah starts the evening of December 25, 2024.
Hanukkah starts the evening of December 25, 2024.
At Hanukkah, a Celebration of Eternal Light − From the Desert Tabernacle to Synagogues Today
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Hanukkah teaches a lesson of hope and resilience – of the need, indeed, of the responsibility, to fight for the human freedoms that are all people’s right.

At the same time, the holiday’s central symbol is not a sword but a candelabra. This one holds nine candles, one of which is used to light the other eight – representing each day of the miracle. Each night of Hanukkah, Jews light this hanukkiah, as a nine-branched menorah is called, beginning with one candle and adding a candle each night until the entire candelabra is ablaze.

Ideas about God’s saving power stand deep within the Hanukkah story. But I like to focus on a different kind of miracle that I see here.

Read the full article on The Conversation.

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