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Reb Shlomo zt"l: Chanukah: Giving Us The Strength To Perform The Greatest Miracles |
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Written by Reb Shlomo Carlebach zt"l
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 Every month we are fixing a certain aspect of our lives. The fixing of
this month, Kislev, is sleeping. Inasmuch as light disturbs your
sleep,
if it is too dark, you are afraid to sleep.
Hanukah is the holiday of the hidden light, the light which shines
into the deepest darkness. What is utter darkness to the soul? To
think that I am utterly alone. Hanukah is the holiday that even if all
the vessels of the holy temple are defiled, the holiest miracles are
happening to us every second – miracles from another world, from the
world of deepest holiness where defilement doesn’t reach.
What is it to be alone in the world? To think that there to nobody in
the world who can perform miracles for me.
Hanukah is the Initiation of the holy temple:
G-d temple.
Israel temple.
Husband and wife temple.
Parents and children temple.
You can do anything in the world outside your house. For sleeping, you
need a house. Nothing brings parents and children closer, than when
parents put their children to sleep. Why do children need their
parents to put them to sleep? Because they need to know that there is
someone watching who can and will perform miracles for them – someone
whose love comes from a world of utmost purity and undefilement.
Every year, Hanukah the festival of miracles, the festival of
rebuilding the house, the festival of Aaron the High Priest, fixes all
our relationships, teaches us to love each other, and especially our
family, with the utmost undefiled love. Yom Kippur we become one with
G-d again — Hanukah we become one with our children again. Yom Kippur
I promise G-d I’ll do right again. Hanukah I promise my children and
G-d and the whole world: I’ll perform the greatest miracles for you.
Please, please let it be clear to you that Hanukah is the greatest
holiday, that on Hanukah G-d gives us strength so that you and I – the
Macabees of today – can perform the greatest miracles.
Moshav Meor Modiim, Kislev 5744
Reprinted from Cong Kehilath Jacob News
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