A Hanukkah Kiss

We celebrate Hanukkah during the shortest, darkest days of the year, and it spreads light and warmth in our homes, and fills our hearts with joy. On each of the eight days of Hanukkah, the Shamash lights the holiday candles, the light of the Menorah grows, whilst that of the Shamash does not diminish. Can others, like candles, give of their light without losing any of it? Our Rabbis believed that candles can teach us life lessons: those of us who give to others, and do good by them, take nothing away from themselves. They are just like the candle that gives of its light to the other candles:

“As a person who lights one candle from another, and the second burns while the first is not diminished.”                              [Bamidbar Rabbah, 13]

Age Group: KINDERGARTEN