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Why It Is Hard for Us to Let Go of Our Pain

Chanukah 5785 -- a Video a Day

Day #8: He Was in Prison for 68 Years, and Didn’t Want to Leave

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When She Heard when the Name Was Given, She Understood It Was Her Husband Sending Her Love

Day #7: A Husband’s Gift from Heaven

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“I Will Not Die, but Live, and Proclaim What G-d Has Done,” We Said Then and Now

Day #6: Satan’s Hangman

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How Great People Are Formed

Day #4: Don’t Use Your Children; Just See Them

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For the Greeks, Even the Holy Was Mundane; for the Jews, Even the Mundane is Holy

Day #3: Why Go Outward? Chanukah, Paganism, and the Experience of Oneness

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He Thought He Was a Simple Painter; It Turned Out His Murals Saved Lives

Day #2: For You the World Was Created

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How Rabbi Lau Comforted an Orphan Whose Entire Life Was Destroyed

Day #1: He Lost His Entire Family, But He Wanted Only One Thing

Day #8:&nbsp;Chanukah 5784 -- a Video a Day

This Is How We Will Know that Moshiach Is Here

Chanukah 5784 -- a Video a Day

Day #8: Can You Smell Redemption In My Heart?

Day #7:&nbsp;Chanukah 5784 -- a Video a Day

To See the Divine Flame in Each of Our Children

Day #7: Inseparable in Life & Death: A Tale of Two Brothers

Day #5:&nbsp;Chanukah 5784 -- a Video a Day

Let’s Not Forfeit the Historic Opportunity

Day #5: 16 Million Jews Ready to Fight

Day #4:&nbsp;Chanukah 5784 -- a Video a Day

It’s Time to Embrace the Spiritual Laws of Chemistry

Day #4: Why the Obsession with Jews?

Day #3:&nbsp;Chanukah 5784 -- a Video a Day

The Courage to Escape Our Inner Darkness

Day #3: What I Learnt from the One Hostage Who Escaped

Day #6 The oil and the wick

The sixth episode of our Chanukah 5778, a video a day series.
Day 6: The Oil &amp; the Wick: The Danger of Religion by Rabbi YY Jacobson.

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menorah

chanukah

music

musical instrument

wick

mechanical judaism

a video a day

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institutionalized religion

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piano

Chanukah commemorates the rededication of the Temple after a group of Jewish warriors defeated the mighty Greek army and the miracle of a little oil that lasted eight days and continues to illuminate our lives to this day.

Day #6: The Oil & the Wick: The Danger of Religion

The Piano Needs the Pianist; the Pianist Needs the Piano

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