L'Isola della Rugiada Divina 

	Hanukka'

Chanukah is the "count-up" festival par excellence. Throughout our millennia it has been a time when families get together to add "one more light" to the menorah each evening. Jewish life ascends.

Chanukah has the same Hebrew root as "chinuch" - education. Adding a new light for each day of the festival is not merely participating in a ritual act. Rather we are molding the bedrock of our educational psyche. The Jewish way has always been to build up gradually, to encourage steady and increasing growth.

The great sage Hillel reminds us that someone who does not add may just as well be dead (Talmud - Avot 1:3). Life without striving to grow is not worth living. Judaism is not about arriving at a destination and retiring. It is about constant growth.

Rabbi Naftali Schiff, Aish UK

Mostra permanente di Chanukiot - candelabri di chanuka'