נס גדול

Miracles… That is what we are about to celebrate.  Tonight is the 24th of the Hebrew month of Kislev, which means that tomorrow night will not only be Shabbat, but also the beginning of the holiday of חנכה.  I recently wrote an article about this holiday and feel free to read it.  Let me know what you think.

Anyways, at this time of the year we are thinking about the idea of miracles.  On our dreidles we find the letters נ, ס, ג, ש and these correspond to the Hebrew phrase: נס גדול היה שם, a great miracle happened there.  In Israel the dreidles do not use the letter ש, for the word שם (there), they use the letter פ, for the word פה (here), because that is where the miracle happened.  But I think we would be doing this holiday a little disservice if we did not try to find the miracle here as well.  We all observe miracles everyday, but for one reason or another we opt to ignore them.  For the holiday of חנכה lets choose to not ignore them.  Lets choose to see them and embrace them.  Every breath we take is a miracle and every thing we do is a miracle.  When we see things in this way we find that we must be thankful for all of these miracles.  I know that I am immensely thankful for all of the miracles in my life, and I hope that more of us can be as well.

Happy second חנכה to the greatest miracle of them all: our daughter Ayelet.

 

חג אורים שמח

The Hearshens

 

Enjoy some videos from Ayelet’s trip to the Museum