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 […]

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

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)

There is a strange Chanukah halakhah that we have been exploring in my high school Gemara class this week — If your Chanukah candle goes out, even right after you lit it, you are not required to relight it. This is not to say that you can’t relight it or are not encouraged to do

Sometimes it feels like there is more evil in the world than good. At this time of year, there is certainly more dark than light. And some days the problems and the tasks – our own and the world’s – seem like they are more immense and numerous than our energy to deal with them.