Chanukah is a lesson in life perhaps the most important lesson you'll ever learn. Chanukah is the story of light defying darkness.
All of us struggle with darkness -whether it be from within our own selves or from the big, scary world out there. Chanukah comes to say ;don't fight with shadows ,instead light a candle and the darkness will run away.
What's a candle? A candle is a mitzvah - a divinely beautiful deed, handed to us straight from heaven to uplift our world
and make it into a divinely beautiful place. Nothing is more powerful than a mitzvah.
So, as the sun's light dwindles and the days shorten ,we light one small candle. The next night we light two. Bit by bit ,the light becomes stronger until we reach the power of eight-a number that represents a power beyond nature, a miraculous power.
There are so many lessons to be learned from Chanukah ,but let's start here: When darkness looms, make more light. Do more good. Add another mitzvah to your life and let your light shine brighter each day. Your efforts may seem small in comparison to the darkness out there, but never underestimate the power if light.
Like the story of the Maccabees, just little bit of light can chase away a whole lot of darkness...so there you go....
