Category: Hanukkah

What Your Favorite Spelling of Hanukkah Says about Your Music Tastes

What Your Favorite Spelling of Hanukkah Says about Your Music Tastes

Show me how you spell Hanukkah and I'll tell you about your music taste. Don't worry, I'll make tons of assumptions about you.
Illuminating our Inner Strength: Hanukkah Kavanah

Illuminating our Inner Strength: Hanukkah Kavanah

Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
Choosing Light: Hanukkah Kavanah

Choosing Light: Hanukkah Kavanah

Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
Power and Promise: Hanukkah Kavanah

Power and Promise: Hanukkah Kavanah

Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
Pause, Wonder, Ask, Turn: Hanukkah Kavanah

Pause, Wonder, Ask, Turn: Hanukkah Kavanah

Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
Chasing Away the Darkness: Hanukkah Kavanah

Chasing Away the Darkness: Hanukkah Kavanah

Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
Let There be Light: Hanukkah Kavanah

Let There be Light: Hanukkah Kavanah

Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
Kindling Justice and Compassion: Hanukkah Kavanah

Kindling Justice and Compassion: Hanukkah Kavanah

Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
Light Over Fear: Hanukkah Kavanah

Light Over Fear: Hanukkah Kavanah

Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with this spiritual intention. Read one each night before you light the candles.
8 Nights of Kavvanot

8 Nights of Kavvanot

Elevate your Hanukkah candle lighting with these spiritual intentions. When the nights are dark, we are reminded about the powerful message of Hanukkah: To lift ...
The Art of Assimilating Wisely

The Art of Assimilating Wisely

Hanukkah—when we read about the Maccabees resisting assimilation and Joseph embracing it—is a time to look at the art of assimilation wisely.
Elevating in Sanctity

Elevating in Sanctity

Elevating in sanctity the celebration of Hanukah, means lighting one more candle each night. What else can we learn from this?
My Good Mensches, We Are Modern Maccabees

My Good Mensches, We Are Modern Maccabees

We are the Maccabees of our modern time and we have the responsibility to keep the Ner Tamid lit for another generation.
Jewish Pride Guides My Actions

Jewish Pride Guides My Actions

From a love of Judaism and Jewish history, my Jewish pride guides my actions, both public and private, and defines my sense of self.
What is Healthy Jewish Pride?

What is Healthy Jewish Pride?

What is healthy Jewish pride? While exploring the past, present, and future of Chanukah, Rabbi Bernat-Kunin proposes a new home ritual.
Miracles: The Power of One Letter

Miracles: The Power of One Letter

Conservative/Masorti prayer books include the Hebrew letter "vav" in the blessing for the miracle of Hanukkah. What is its secret?
DIY Hanukkah and the Potato Menorah

DIY Hanukkah and the Potato Menorah

DIY Hanukkah: My custom of making a potato menorah and why DIY Judaica can provide a crucial connection to Judaism.
Liturgy on Ḥanukkah

Liturgical Changes on Hanukkah

Liturgy on Hanukkah includes Hallel and additions to the Amidah. There are also special Torah readings, maftirs, and haftarot.
Songs for Hanukkah

Songs for Hanukkah

Hanukkah songs include those that follow candle lighting, as well as S'vivon sov sov sov, Hanukkah O'Hanukkah, and Neir Li.
The Menorah

What is The Menorah?

The central mitzvah of Ḥanukkah is the lighting of the menorah at home and in the synagogue. This brings light to the darker winter months. ...
Customs for Hanukkah

Customs for Hanukkah

Beyond lighting the menorah, Hanukkah customs include special foods, the dreidel and gift-giving, especially when spending time with family.
Hanukkah Candle Lighting

How to light the Hanukkah Candles

Read here for the procedure for lighting candles for Hanukkah. This includes the blessings, song ideas, and order for lighting candles.
Hanukkah: History and Context

Hanukkah: History and Context

What is Hanukkah's historical context? What does it actually commemorate? Who was Judah and the Maccabees?