Hanukkah Day 7 - Healing Hurts and Promoting Well-being
by Rabbi Katy Z. Allen
Jewish tradition teaches that we are each to light our own hanukkiah - or Hanukkah candelabrum, and that even children should have their own. Lighting the hanukkiah is one of those mitzvot (commandments) that we can only do for ourselves. Unlike Shabbat candlelighting and many prayers, no one else can provide for us the fulfillment of thismitzvah. We can stand together, we can sing together, we can share in the radiance of the lights, but we must each do the ...
