Chanukkah Activity
Stockimage by Google This was a brief lunch-time Chanukkah activity that I crafted for my fellow students at Leo Baeck College. The purpose of the activity was to not only see Chanukkah as the celebration of a military victory or of Divine intervention but rather as a celebration of inner transformation as we move from darkness into light, from our inner values to an outer expression thereof. Feel free to use it if you like it - just credit me. Your Inner Light Channukah Group Activity The Rabbis transformed Chanukkah from being a military commemoration to a feast celebrating the Chanukkah ‘miracle’ of the oil fueling the lights of the Menorah for eight days. The essence of Chanukkah to the Rabbis was ‘pirsumei nisa’, the ‘publication of the miracle’ (T. Bavli, Shabbat 21a). Hence, we are commanded to light lights, increasing in number every day (according to Beit Hillel) and place them in window sills or doorways. In other words, we have to let our light shine! How about if we extend...