*Translation: Google Translate
17 Adar 5785 | 17 March 2025
*Translation: Google Translate
17 Adar 5785 | 17 March 2025
Do miracles no longer happen in our days? When reading about the miraculous events that occurred to our ancestors during the Exodus from Egypt, on Hanukkah, or on Purim, this question occupies our mind. In reality, miracles happen daily in the lives of each of us and the very survival of Israel and the Jewish people is proof of this.
Soon we will celebrate Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, and for eight days our world will be illuminated. As much as Chanukah celebrates the past, it also celebrates the present and the future. For while it commemorates the miracle of a simple amphora of oil that burned for eight days, it also imbues the world with hope that light will triumph over darkness and peace over war.
Israel and the Jews are going through a dark period, marked by terrorism and violence. Anti-Semitism has resurfaced in several countries, accompanied - without disguise, this time - by strong anti-Israeli sentiment. As Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel states in his open letter to the readers of Morashá,... "Never since 1945 had so many vile lies been disseminated, in so many countries and cultures, about Israel and the Jews" . From several other sides, voices of warning are also raised. Therefore, it is imperative to react to anti-Semitic propaganda and renew our solidarity with Israel. We need to show the world that Israel is not alone, that the Jewish people and Israel are a single people, united by indestructible bonds. And that will once again overcome events.
In a few days, as our ancestors did, we, Jews around the world, will light the Hanukkah candles - true lights against the darkness of intolerance - and sing our prayers so that evil and violence will no longer be part of the vocabulary of men. . May the light of the Hanukkah flames spread to the four corners of the world, illuminating the soul of every human being, and may it bring the much-desired peace to Israel and the entire world.
Chanukah sameach!
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Lighting the candles
