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Each of us has a dark spot concealed from ourselves due to overwhelming pain and shame. How do we turn on the lights? The village of Charnovska mirrored the Bible’s description of the world’s beginning. Light and darkness were entwined so completely that no period could be called “day” in comparison to another called “night.” Until this point, the externals of life were highly predictable: cycles of births, deaths, marriages, grinding poverty, and tragedies were seemingly engraved in cement. And the inner life of the villagers was varied and multifaceted; there were scholars and saints, and ordinary people who hid their noble spirit under the blanket of a humble tailor and shoemaker -- a destiny bequeathed from their fathers and rarely questioned by the sons.

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In Charnovska, the young men and women walked a path that led to Stalin’s hell. At the time, they thought that they were moving toward the workers paradise. Their elders (and a minority of youth) saw where the path led and grasped onto the mountain of faith by their fingernails. Shmulik was different from both segments of the village population. He fought with the Whites, the nearfascist opposition. His motivations were practical rather than idealistic. The Whites paid him well for betraying his neighbors. Shmulik informed, and fellow Jews were killed on his word. The wrong side won, at least from Shmulik’s perspective. At a time when millions of lives were destroyed on suspicion of being “antirevolutionary,” Shmulik survived. He was tough and ruthless, and his survival was bought at the price of his own conscience.

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never let himself feel. More clearly than anything else he had known, he knew he must say the mourner’s Kaddish. There were three functioning synagogues in the village. They were soon to be doomed by the Reds as a sort of museum of natural history. But for now, they were still part of the living body of the shtetel, like limbs awaiting amputation. The unexpected happened. No matter what Shmulik did, he could not convince the villagers to allow him to say Kaddish. The elderly men who came daily were close enough to the Valley of the Shadow of Death. They had already lost all that any human could take. There was one other minyan (prayer quorum) in the village. It did not meet in a synagogue. What members of this minyan feared the most was being left for dead. Shmulik approached the rabbi, who like everyone else in Charnovska knew there was blood on Shmulik’s hands. This rabbi said “yes.” The next morning, Shmulik found himself walking the stairs that led to the decrepit shack of the makeshift synagogue. After several days, the rabbi asked Shmulik why he doesn’t put on Tefillin, since he was attending synagogue in any case. “I don’t have Tefillin,” Shmulik replied. “But I do,” said the rabbi. After services, the strange sight of the rabbi handing his Tefillin to the village traitor became the whispered gossip engaging the village for days. Next, Shmulik learned to read Hebrew. (Yes, the dialogue was: “Why not pray?” “I don’t know how to read.” “I’ll show you.”) And so it went. In the course of time, Shmulik became unrecognizable as the person he had once been. He married, had children, saw to their education at the risk of his life by sending them to the underground Jewish school. Shmulik had a meaningful present and future.

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Each of us, too, has a dark spot concealed from ourselves due to overwhelming pain and shame. How do we turn on the lights? himself to look inward at the unspeakable blackness of his past. The door had remained closed, keeping all the monsters at bay. The day came when he finally opened the door, and was horrified and sickened at what he saw. That day was the most significant one in his life. The rabbi sat and told Shmulik all he knew, just as everyone in the village knew it all. Shmulik listened silently. When the litany ended, the rabbi said, “You caused death. Now you must bring forth life.” They spoke late into the night. When their talk was silenced by weariness, a conclusion had already been reached: Shmulik would build a mikveh, a spiritual bath that is the core of Jewish family purity. In the midst of the spiritual cemetery that was being built in the Ukraine, Shmulik undertook to demonstrate his belief in the future of the Jewish people. Every night he went out to the barn behind his house and dug. When he struck water, he knew that the hope that he had nurtured was being answered. Tiles were acquired on the black market, and a heating system was devised. The man who had betrayed so many was not betrayed. The final touch was the construction of a wooden platform upon which he shoveled horse manure.

The platform covered the top of the mikveh, hiding it from view. None of the “big brothers” who had become a ubiquitous part of the scene ever felt inclined to investigate the muck. Charnovska exchanged hands and Shmulik found himself in a concentration camp. His family was gone. But Shmulik’s face shone like a tzaddik.

TO NOT DESPAIR Each of us, too, has a dark spot concealed from ourselves due to overwhelming pain and shame. How do we turn on the lights? Let us look for a moment at the miracle of Chanukah. Of course there was Divine intervention. The odds of one family, the Maccabees, successfully taking on the SyrianGreek army, are infinitesimally small. Their victory was a great miracle. Yet the mitzvah that we perform on Chanukah, lighting the menorah, celebrates not the military triumph but the spiritual illumination that made it possible. A classic question asked about Chanukah is why we light candles for eight days? Shouldn’t we light only seven days, since the oil they found lasted for one day even without miraculous intervention? One answer is that it is a miracle the Maccabees even began to look for pure oil. They had not despaired. When they searched the Temple for oil, they had to face the idols that were placed there not only by Greeks, but also by their fellow Jews. They had to clear the Temple Courtyard from the remains of the debris left by the young Kohanim who ran Olympicstyle marathons naked in vain tribute to their own self-worship. They had to bring life where there was death. Hashem responded. The days of Chanukah are called “yimay ratzon” -- days of Divine willingness for us to draw down some of His light into our own souls. When we do, we can once more merit the kind of miracles that God did for the Maccabees. After all it is He who said, “Let there be light.” Reprinted from Aish.com

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My First Chanukkah in Communist Russia by Gita Steinberg No one saw my pitiful menorah. Little did I know how that small flame would grow into a huge light.

I was born in Communist Russia to parents who were Holocaust survivors. We knew that we were Jewish – it was written in our identity cards – and we had Jewish names. But apart from that I had no idea what Judaism was all about. I was the third generation to be disconnected from Judaism. I grew up amongst non-Jews but I always felt out of place, like a black sheep. As far back as I can remember, I had a strange feeling that I couldn’t identify; I felt like a plucked leaf flying in the wind, without a home. I was restless and didn’t feel at home anywhere. I thought that maybe it was because of my family’s wanderings – they were penniless refugees. But the lack that I felt was not material; it was deeper, in my soul. I felt abandoned. One bright day I heard for the first time that there is a country called Israel, whose residents are all Jews. Somehow, my soul heard that there is a place in the world where

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I belong. At that moment it was absolutely clear to me that my place is there because I am a Jewess. I had no doubt that my home was in Israel, even though I had no idea how, or what to expect on the way, or what was waiting for me there. This discovery changed my life, granting it a purpose and meaning. It was clear to me that whatever price I would have to pay to get there would be worthwhile, for what is truly precious requires effort. I was possessed by this goal – to be a Jew and to live as a Jew – and pursued it relentlessly for the 12 years that it took until I received permission to leave the prison of Soviet Russia. During those years I suffered greatly. The Soviet authorities branded me a traitor for wanting to leave Russia and put every possible obstacle in my way. I was threatened, interrogated, and my house was searched. I lost my citizenship and my rights as a citizen. Ironically, I was no longer a Russian citizen but I was unable to leave Russia. But worse than that, my family also rejected me. “How could you leave your parents?” they told me. None of this lessened my fervor

to pursue my goal. On the contrary – as the pressure and persecutions increased, I became stronger and surer of myself. My soul awoke and began to demand its food – a connection with its Creator. I tried very hard to find every opportunity to learn about Judaism, paying dearly for every drop of information. I travelled to the larger cities searching for underground Jews. And I found them. I was given a suitcase with illegal booklets describing Judaism. These were papers secretly typed with five copies using carbon paper. I read them thirstily and gathered a few like-minded Jews in my city to share the information with. When I learned about the story of Hanukkah, about the Maccabees and Hasmoneans with a small picture of a menorah, I felt that this belonged directly to Russian Jews, to the struggle for the right to be a Jew and to remain a Jew in every place in every generation. I decided that I must get a menorah and light it and share it with the members of my group. I made a simple sketch based on the picture in the story and what I

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imagined. One of the members of our group was a machine engineer and I asked him if he could make such a thing out of metal. He agreed even though he had to work at great risk at night when no one would see or ask questions – true Jewish heroism. When it was finished I was very excited. He made it in one piece; it was very heavy, but to me it was beautiful. I lived in an eightstory building for young people. I had to wait years for government housing, and I had received a small room on the eighth floor in an apartment for eight families with one kitchen for all of us and a joint bathroom. It was opposite a building materials factory. The building was at the edge of the city and all my friends lived at the other end of town. When Hanukkah arrived it was the end of December, freezing cold, minus 30 degrees and snowing heavily. On the appointed day I invited my friends and prepared to share the story of Hanukkah and serve some light refreshments. Night came. I waited and waited but no one arrived. The storm was raging outside. When I realized that there’s no point in waiting any longer I put the menorah on the windowsill and lit a candle. My first Hanukkah candle. I sat in front of the small flame watching the reflection in the black window. I began to ask myself: What’s this candle doing? Who sees it? The factory opposite? To whom am I publicizing the miracle? There isn’t a living soul outside. And if someone does go by down there, he won’t pick up his head. Even if he does lift his head, he won’t see this little candle.

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That small candle was not lit in vain. Someone did see it, the One who created me a Jew and Who guides my life. He wanted me to light a candle, to exert myself, and He freed me in the end from that huge prison – Communist Russia. Hashem brought me to Israel. I kissed the Land and I merited going to Jerusalem and to the Kotel, the Western Wall. Slowly I learned about Judaism and became a fully observant Jew. Hanukkah party at my school, with me in the middle. Over the course of ten years, drastic changes took place in Russia with the fall of the Soviet Union. I was sent back to Moscow to be the principal and teacher of Jewish studies in a Jewish school that had opened there, very close to the Kremlin. At the mall, handing out Shabbat candles. The school was called Migdal-Or which means a lighthouse. My small Hanukkah candle ended up lighting many more candles, eventually turning into a huge light, a veritable lighthouse. Additional lights come from the thousands of Shabbat candles that I give out every Friday in the mall near my house. More light shines from the Torah classes that I am privileged to teach and my learning partners throughout Israel, and from my poems and stories of my personal miracles that accompanied me throughout my life. To think that all this began from one forlorn Chanukkah candle that no one but the Almighty saw. Reprinted from Aish.com

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My Last Line of Defense by Ross Hirschmann

How Chanukah kept me Jewish when all else failed.

rowing up, there was not much about Judaism that I loved, or even liked for that matter. Passover was a bust (the Four Questions was the only acting gig I met that I didn’t like), and don’t get me started on Yom Kippur (can you say, “Starvation without meaning”?). With my father making me miss high school football games and dances for something he called “Shabbos,” you can pretty much guess how I felt about Judaism by age 16. Hated it! But there was one Jewish thing that I connected with from the time I was a kid: Chanukah. I know it sounds so cliche to say that the only Jewish holiday a secular Jewish kid from Walnut Creek like me enjoyed was the one that occurred close to Christmas, but it’s true. I’ve always loved Chanukah. In fact, it was Chanukah that probably saved me from giving up on Judaism all together. As a kid, my house was not the place to be for the holidays. Any holiday. There was always so much pressure to have the “perfect holiday” that usually everyone ended up very tense and unhappy by the day’s end.

My father was always particularly tense around Rosh Hashana, but not without some justification. It was tough trying to get five little kids into the car so we could all get to temple on time to celebrate the festive New Year. But since we were always running late, (inevitably someone’s shoe was missing or hair wasn’t just right) we usually brought in the New Year in a manner that was, well, let’s just say “less than festive.” Yom Kippur was the same situation, different holiday, but with the added “wildcard” of a fast mixed in. Thanksgiving did not fare much better either. The turkey always took longer than the “meat guy” at Safeway said it would (which led to us reliving the Yom Kippur fast), the yams weren’t as good as the year before and the true pain of having to sit through yet another Detroit Lions football game on TV all added up to, well, not much fun. But Chanukah was different. Maybe it was because my dad lost steam after all the tension of the “big” holidays, or maybe it was because nobody had grand expectations of making a “Chanukah to Remember,” or maybe it was because no one

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particularly cared. I don’t know. Whatever the reason, Chanukah was relaxed and even fun. And it wasn’t because of the presents. Believe me, with five kids to shop for there weren’t a lot of presents. As a boy Chanukah had particular appeal because well -- let’s face it -Chanukah is a really good war story. It’s like D-Day for the Jews. My father was a decorated B-25 pilot during WW II and I grew up hearing his war stories. They captivated me. The battles, the heroics, beating the odds, successfully completing the “mission impossible” -- my father had done it all. But he did it as a part of the United States Army. Chanukah told the story how the Jewish Army overcame the odds and beat the stuffing out of the Syrian Greeks. The Chanukah story had everything dad’s war stories had: battles, heroics, beating the odds and completing successfully the “mission impossible.” But Chanukah had something more: it had G-d. The story of Chanukah not only gave me a sense of a proud and even “tough” lineage as a kid, but it also taught me what my mom always told me: You can always

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rely on G-d to take care of you. Every night after we lit the menorah, we’d sing Rock of Ages. Even as a kid, my eyes always welled up with tears when we sang the verse, “And Thy word broke their swords, when our own strength failed us.” The thought that G-d, with just one of His words, could break an enemy’s sword and defeat him for us was overwhelming to me. Somehow it got through to me that alone we’re helpless, vulnerable, defeatable. But with G-d’s help we can do anything, overcome anything, accomplish anything. Even when we believe we can’t. Now that I am a religious adult, I see even more profundity in the Chanukah story. It’s still a great war story, but now I also realize that it’s a story about my own battles: first against Judaism when I was growing up, and now my present struggle to preserve Judaism within in my family. Growing up, I was surrounded by the world of Walnut Creek, a world that encouraged me at every corner to assimilate into the general, American, Christian culture. As a kid I thought, “Well, that sounds good to me!” I mean who wants to stand out as “odd guy out” or worse as “Jewish Guy Out”? Not me. I was no Judah Maccabee. In fact I was just the opposite -- I was my own Syrian-Greek. I encouraged myself to assimilate as much as possible. But just like with the Maccabees, G-d saved me from losing Judaism all together. The odds against this happening were great: all of Walnut Creek and secular culture versus G-d saving one Jewish soul. The Almighty had to come up with something good, something powerful. And He did. He gave me a holiday I could enjoy, something Jewish that I could cling to. He gave me Chanukah. Having that allowed me to say, “Well, maybe I won’t chuck all this Jewish stuff just yet. Maybe it’s okay to be Jewish -- just a little bit.” In the end, as in the story of Chanukah, God won. Judaism survived in me. When you become religious in

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But there was one Jewish thing that I connected with from the time I was a kid: Chanukah.

your 30’s, however, you also face some pretty tough battles -- against yourself, against society, even against some well-meaning family members -- in order to preserve Judaism in your life and your family’s life. Sometimes it seems that the battles are overwhelming and the enemies too much to handle. But even in the face of all of that I realized that the battle has to be won because my wife and I, and our two little daughters are the last strong links to Judaism in both our families. We’re the last line of defense. So during the tough times, I think back to that verse in Rock of Ages and remember that G-d can help us overcome anything, that He can help us save Judaism in our lives just as he helped the Maccabees so many years ago. My eyes still well up with tears when I think of that verse or sing it. Chanukah reminds me that G-d is always there for us, and that if we just allow Him to help us fight our battles -- whatever those battles may be -- His word will indeed break our enemy’s sword. Maybe it’s that powerful reminder of G-d’s love for us that makes Chanukah my favorite holiday. And maybe it’s that powerful message of G-d’s love for us that kept me from abandoning Judaism during all those years I was so far from it.

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