Dedicated by Moris and Lillian Tabacinic · In loving memory of Menachem Mendel and Shaindel Tabacinic
As the Jewish nation prepared for what may shape up to be a most unusual Chanukah, we turned to you, our dear readers, to help us make the biggest Chanukah party ever.
Water and oil both represent wisdom.
Water represents the wisdom of life in this world, a wisdom that flows from the tallest mountain to the lowest valley, from the highest cloud to the deepest ocean floor. In all things, that wisdom breathes.
Oil represents a wisdom that is beyond this world. It is called the hidden...
What is the story behind this popular Jewish holiday? Watch this short 3-minute video to learn how good overcame evil, light won over darkness, and miracles triumphed over morass.
The Talmud states, “For the wicked, sleep is good for them and good for the world, but for the righteous, it is bad for them and bad for the world.” There is no rest for the righteous. When a...
Many of us will be particpating in Zoom Chanukah celebrations this year. Read here what works and what doesn't.
Motherhood is a new territory, and every child—no matter how many you have—is its own, beautiful, new light. You enter new stages all the time. What worked for one child doesn’t for another.
A wooden clog became a hanukkiah; strings from a uniform, a wick; and shoe polish, pure oil.
An inspiring conversation with Mrs. Shternie Wolf, Chabad’s emissary in Hanover, Germany, who suddenly lost her husband, Rabbi Benny Wolf, yet she remains determined to stay and continue their life...
Episode 2: The Kabbalah of Divine energy to create everything conveyed in the letters and words of the Hebrew alphabet.
G-d showed Moses the new moon at its moment of rebirth, and said to him: When the moon is reborn, mark the beginning of a new month.
– Mechilta
Flood rains cease
(2105 BCE)
The forty days and nights of rainfall which covered
the face of earth with water in Noah's time ended... Read More »
3rd Day of Chanukah Miracle
(139 BCE)
On the 25th of Kislev in the year 3622 from creation, the Maccabees liberated the Holy Temple in... Read More »
Passing of R. Chaim of Tchernovitz
(1817)
Rabbi Chaim of Tchernovitz (1760-1817) was a disciple of the
Maggid of Mezritch and of Rabbi Yechiel... Read More »
2nd liberation of R. Schneur Zalman of Liadi
(1800)
Two years after his arrest and liberation in 1798
(see entries for "Kislev 19"
and here),
Rabbi... Read More »
In commemoration of the miracle of Chanukah we kindle the Chanukah lights—oil lamps or candles—each... Read More »
Special prayers of thanksgiving -- Hallel (in its full version) and V'Al HaNissim
-- are added to the... Read More »
On Chanukah we eat foods fried in oil—such as latkes (potato pancakes) and
sufganiot (doughnuts) ... Read More »
It is customary to play dreidel—a game played with a spinning top inscribed with the Hebrew
letters... Read More »
It is an age-old custom to distribute gifts of Chanukah gelt ("Chanukah money") to children on... Read More »
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