Chanukah Never Ends
Tech Tribe Dispatch #228
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Every night of Chanukah we increase in light. One flame becomes two, then three ... all the way to the final night, when eight flames illuminating the darkness — All Lights Night
But what happens on the 9th night? Or the 10th? How can a holiday that symbolizes the ever increasing power of light over darkness, seem to fizzle out into nothingness, leaving us forlorn in the cold inky blackness of the longest nights of the winter?
Tevet, the new Jewish month we began this week, is coldest of the year. Outside the world, blanketed in snow and lethargic with frost, turns inwards.
We’ve reached our nadir. It feels as if nothing can be darker.
But the coldest month is also the portent for the most light.
Yes, all revelation is gone. But when we look away from the externalities, we find that we gain warmth from the deepest parts within. We are no longer basking in the summery, superficial, warmth of G-d. We’ve matured. Now we are bound up in the deep, intimate embrace with the Al-mighty. It’s embrace of two people, finding warmth not from the externalities of the world, but from their bond. Tevet is the month where our essence, bound up with that of our Creator, shines forth.
And that is also the truth about Chanukah: Chanukah doesn’t end, it burns brighter an brighter each night. After Chanukah WE are the lights. We burn with the flame of a body possessed of a G-dly soul. We have an inner fire that no wind can put out, no water can douse. Like the ice itself that becomes a vessel of light, after Chanukah we realize that the greatest fire and source of them all burns within us.
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