Chanukah Riddles
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Chanukah
Chanukah
ESSAY: Your Intrinsic Value (Chanukah)
Be like the Chanukah candles. Don’t be useful or productive for a moment. So you can feel and know where your true value comes from.
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MEDITATION: Your Intrinsic Value (Chanukah)
In this meditation, we look at the prohibition against making use of the Chanukah light and consider how it invites us into an intrinsic orientation towards value instead of a utilitarian one. We apply that to ourselves and our own light, exploring what it would mean to really believe in our own intrinsic divine value,
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ESSAY: Entering the Magical Kingdom (Chanukah)
We tend to be mired in the concrete, our perspective limited by what we can comprehend and know and hold on to. Hanukkah reminds us to open to the mysterious, the miraculous, the magical, the unknown. Not Enough Oil They thought that little jug had only enough oil to last one day. We
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MEDITATION: Entering the Magical Kingdom (Chanukah)
They thought the jug did not have enough oil to last more than one day. We have this pervasive sense of not enoughness about many things — time, space, resources, love — and on one level, the concrete, rational level of counting and figuring things out and knowing, there is truth to our assessments, to
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ESSAY: Our Hidden Inner Light (Chanukah)
On Chanukah, as we light candles into the deepest dark of the winter, we can also take some time to light an internal candle into the darkest parts of our inner lives, into the places that hold sadness and loneliness and despair and grief, the parts that see the dark side of the world, the
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MEDITATION: Our Hidden Inner Light (Chanukah)
In this meditation, we take the concepts of darkness and light into our internal world, exploring the parts of us that feel most dark and bringing some warm Chanukah light to keep them company. There is a tradition that the Chanukah light is related to the or haganuz, the divine light that God originally created,
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REFLECTION QUESTIONS: For Chanukah
What parts of you most need the light right now? How could you more fully shine your light in the world? Who has served as a shamash in your life? (Click image to read more)
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POEM: Light one Light (Chanukah)
(Originally published in 2021) When darkness descends, and a voices says — it will never end, light one light. (Click image to read more)
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MEDITATION: Bringing the Miracle Inside (Chanukah)
On Chanukah, we celebrate the miraculous — the impossible becoming possible. This meditation explores what it feels like to bring this sense of the miraculous inside — through the Chanukah light and all its particular miracles — especially to our darkest places, the places of despair and impossibility.
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