Candles are lit during each day of this religious festival to commemorate the Hanukkah Miracle — an event where the olive oil in the Second Temple’s menorah burned for eight days, although there was only enough oil for the candles to burn for one day. This video cannot be played because ...
Hanukkah (光明节) came early this year, perhaps too soon after Thanksgiving to allow us to prepare well. During the first night of Hanukkah, the Hanukkah candles were nowhere to be found in the entire Dallas area where we lived. Birthday candles wouldn't work! The tal...
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where we still weep. Let it be an acceptance of the darkness we’ve known so well… and then, like the solstice, like the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah… let it also be a celebration of light into which we emerge and to which we find ourselves… perhaps not as we were before, but ...
Later in the afternoon I did take a couple videos of incoming, but they can be rather frightening to those who are not used to this. So I will not post those. If you want me to send Amy directly, DM me… After hearing the siren and getting an all clear, I’d go out and take ...
When we consider the ways that people have complained about the expanded senses of such words asliterally,dilapidated,awful,aggravate, andtalented(the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge hated this word), three things seem clear: 1) Words will often stray from their roots ...
“I’m keeping you and your family in my thoughts this second Hanukkah after [say the name]’s death. I realize you’re still adjusting to [his/her] absence.” “Will you join us for Christmas Eve services? We realize you might not want to sit alone.” ...
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Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days, starting on the 25th day ofKislevaccording to theHebrew calendar(beginning at sunset), which may occur at any time from late November to late December in theGregorian calendar. Hanukkah isa Jewish festival honoring the recovery of Jerusalem and the...