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Category: Chanukka

RUACH HAKODESH, A PARTNERSHIP

In ruach hakodesh, the person who’s assuming the role of boots on the
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SHADOWS AND LIGHT: CHANUKKA 5783/2022

Chanukka lights bring healing to the corruptions of power that surround our light
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Paradox: A Chanukka Dilemma

Hanukkah teaches us how to survive exile and how to accomplish the purpose
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“This Opposite This” HaShem Made the World

The whole drama of geopolitics comes down to “who eats who?": In the
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The Chinukh of Chanukka

Chanukka 5781 / 2020 This holiday is called Chanukka because it is training
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Chanukka: Harbinger of Messianic Gender Shifts to Come

Chanukka references toward the future, R. Luria associates them with Mashiach ben David,
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ZOT CHANUKKA: A TRIBUTE TO THE SHEKHINA

The kabbalists read into Chanukka’s eight days, a journey of progressive tikun down
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A Chanukka Meditation from the Zohar

Those who seize this occasion to meditate on the Chanukka lamps will be
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The Menorah: Secret of Ruach HaKodesh

Chanukka 2016 / 5777 The menorah symbolizes the Oral Torah—the light that we
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“These Lights are Holy…”: An Instruction for Meditation

Chanukka 2015 / 5776 Our simple affirmation now becomes a deep teaching about
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“…Until there are no stragglers in the marketplace.”

When is the time for lighting Chanukka candles? The earliest time is sunset
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Chanukka and the Feminine

The deepening union between the Shekhina and HKBH occurs in a very different
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Artist Yoram Raanan - Menorah

Hillel says to move toward many; Shammai says to move toward one

Hillel says to start with one candle and add another each day until
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On Chanukka Everyone’s a High Priest

When the High Priest lit the menorah his intention was actually a prayer,
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The Inner Search for Pure Oil

Our world view, our sense of truth, our vision of perfection, our vision
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Chanukka, Greece and Democracy

There is no person or nation that does not have at least a
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