Hanukkah by night
Hanukkah
by night
by days and nights
candles
prayers by song
and there are meals together
for
conversation
and there is play
it is the Temple miracle
eight lights
for
the time before supplies
arrived
and on their own
the lights
to sanctify
the space be sacrosanct
again
blue
silver
visits
dreidel
chocolate
and
a festive attitude
persisting all the week
and
why not
the love of God evident through
miracle
endowing the return
and
we could meet in Jerusalem
next year
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Photo by Katie Rainbow 🏳️🌈 on Unsplash--“A colorful nine-branched Hanukkah menorah, also known as a ‘Hanukkiah’. Handmade out of colored paper.”
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Blessings of Lights in Darkness
(appreciation of a Gentile toward the Jewish family)
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Somewhere in Advent
Hanukkah begins
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Sundown tomorrow,
I believe
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Eight nights of blue
With silver lights
That dedicate
The temple
From our enemies
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They’re gone:
We don’t have to think
About them
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Now, there’s chocolate
And treats
In games
And gifts,
Small delights
And big ones for the heart
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Anticipation
Practice
Family
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My ignorance
Like ignorance
Has walls;
I’d rather be inside
The spirit of redemption
And occasion,
The community
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The relief in having realized
Somber times
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The pleasure now,
The fun
Of shalom
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Eight days
Of miracle,
Of remembrance and the meaning that
Creation is in food
Also in candle lights
And in each of us
Singly
And specially together
Now
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The one who saves is blessed
And offers blessing
And is the one
As one
Who provides seriously
And playfully as well
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Is here
Beyond the count of days
And nights
But who is here
Inside these eight,
All the intimate hours
As we draw near to them
To have,
To share
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Next year in Jerusalem
Then
And now with family
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From the source of blessing,
Bless
And
Keep you, friends
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Call of the Light
Photo by Robert Zunikoff on Unsplash
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