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Thoughts From The
Lubavitcher Rebbe
Liibavitch Preschoolers Have Varied Studies
The Lights of Chanukah
By Rabbi Yossi Groner
During this month of Kislev
we celebrate the bright fes
tival of Chanukah. Much has
been written about the story
of Chanukah and its lessons
we derive from it. These in
clude the message of light over
darkness, quality over quanti
ty, spiritual over materiEil, etc.
It is even more important to
listen to the message of the
Chanukah lights, since kindl
ing the lights is the first and
most emphasized Mitzvah of
the holiday. Here are some
lessons which add to the
spiritugd significance of the
Chanukah candles. '
(1) Lighting Chanukah can
dles reveals to us in a physical
sense, that a Mitzvah From
G-d when observed brings
forth Divine light from G-d.
As the Torah states: “For the
candle is Mitzvah and Torah is
light”.
(2) The manner of kindling
the lights is that we add a new
candle each night. The lesson
is, that although one fulfills
the complete Mitzvah by light
ing one candle on the first
night, yet when the second
night comes one must add a
new candle until the complete
number of eight candles is
reached on the eighth night of
Chanukah. This applies to the
observance of all the Mitzvot
and to all matters of Torah
and Judaism, as the well
known statement in the
Talmud: “One should accend
in holiness”.
(3) When lighting the Chanu
kah candles, we place them by
the door so they can be seen on
the outside. This indicates
that, one must not be satisfied
with the illuminating his/her
own home with the light of
Torah and Mitzvot. Rather,
his/her privilege and obliga
tion is to spread the light of
Judaism, Torah and Mitzvot
also to the area outside his/her
home and environment. Speci
fically to those Jewish people
who as of yet, are outside the
Jewish way of life.
(4) To illuminate those Jew
ish people’s lives while they
are still outside the Jewish
way, and to make an effort to
bring them back in to
Judaism.
(5) On the first night of
Chanukah, the Blessing of
“Shehecheyonu” is recited.
This blessing is always recited
when we begin any holiday,
through which we thank G-d
for giving us life, sustaining us
and allowing us to arrive to
this time when we can illumi
nate the darkness with the
wonderful Mitzvah of Chanu
kah C2indles.
(6) The Mitzvah of lighting
Chanukah candles applies to
men and women. However
Jewish women accepted not to
work during the time of candle
lighting. This emphasizes how
women are even more affected
with the spiritual light of
Chanukah that they transcend
the level of physical work.
Most important of £dl, is to
actually light the candles each
night of Chanukah to add to
the spiritual and divine light
within our own homes. Even
more so, to the entire com
munity, especially since this
year is a Hakhel year.
Just as the Al-mighty G-d
performed miracles and won
ders for our ancestors in those
days at this time of the year.
He should likewise perform
miracles and wonders with the
coming of Moshiach, for whom
we are waiting everyday.
Ciianukah Story Airs on Radio
The Chanukah story comes
to life through Radio theater.
The full drama will be aired on
“The Jewish Sound”, Sunday,
December 13 at 9 a.m.
“The Jewish Sound” is a
weekly radio show which is
heard every Sunday morning
from 9-10 on WSOC AM 93 in
Charlotte. Rabbi Yossi
Groner, host of the Radio
show, says: “The purpose of
the show is to reach out to our
fellow people with educational
and entertaining program
ming, and this is a great way
to utilize modem media during
the holiday season.”
The Chanukah Radio Drama
produced by Jewish Educa
tion Media, a Lubavitch orga
nization, has received world
wide acclaim for the accuracy
of the Chanukah story. The
radio show will also air many
Chanukah songs with explana
tions of Chanukah laws and
customs.
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There is an old Chassidic
adage: “One must live with
the times”. In other words;
one must be aware of the sig
nificant time of year which is
linked to a period in Jewish
history. This is accomplished
by learning reading the regu
lar Torah portion of the week.
The Lubavitch preschool
children are continuing to ad
vance in their Jewish aware
ness, through experiencing the
actu£il Torah story.
“During the past month, we
learned about Noach’s Ark
and the flood,” said Chanie
Weiss who is Judaica teacher
at the Preschool. “We first
discussed the story, after
which we dramatized in an ac
tual way.”
The children built their own
Ark out of our brick blocks.
They made three floors like
the original. People lived on
the top level, animals on the
middle level and the waste
went to the bottom. The stu
dents edso build a window
where the dove could fly out to
check if the land was diy. “We
didn’t want to take it down
because it was so much fun
pretending to be like Noach,”
said one of the children.
The Hebrew month just
gone was Cheshvan. The stu-
Children playing with the rabbit.
dents made raindrops for the
bulletin boards because the
flood happened during the
month of Cheshvan. Cheshvan
is sdso the rainy season in
Israel.
The children have also been
advancing in their secular
studies under the capable
teaching of Fern Sanderson
who is the morning teacher.
“The varied media that were
utilized this month appeals to
our inventive nature,” says
Fern. “There always seems to
be a little ripple of excitement
in the air as we watch our im
age break through. The use of
Jewish Calendar
Candlelighting
Dec. 11 • 4:53 p.m.
Dec. 15 - 5:13 p.m. (1st Chanukah candle)
Dec. 16 - 5:13 p.m. (2nd Chanukah candle)
Dec. 17 - 5:13 p.m. (3rd Chanukah candle)
Dec. 18 - 4:55 p.m. (Shabbat & 4th Chanukah candle*)
Dec. 19 - 6:05 p.m. (5th Chanukah candle)
Dec. 20 - 4:56 p.m. (6th Chanukah candle)
Dec. 21 - 5:15 p.m. (7th Chanukah candle)
Dec. 22 - 5:15 p.m. (8th Chanukah candle)
Dec. 25 - 4:58 p.m.
Jan. 1 - 5:03 p.m.
Jan. 8 - 5:09 p.m.
Jan. 15 - 5:15 p.m.
♦ Light before Shabbat candles.
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different techniques can help
increase our enthusiasm for
these skill building projects.”
The children used unifix
cubes to create specific pat
terns—a Math Their Way acti
vity. The students also com
pleted a special project
through which they created
their own Brown Bear books.
“The letter “J” was in
troduced. We Jumped,
Jogged, put a Jumprope on
the shape of the letter ‘J’. We
also had ‘J’ show and tell,”
said Fern.
The afternoon program
which is led by Elke Azleson
is a time for fun study with
lots of arts and crafts. This
past month the children
learned about the change of
colors; they collected leaves of
many colors and sizes and
pasted them on a special dis
play so they can be examined
and studied.
Debbie Burks, office mana
ger at Lubavitch, surprised
the children by bringing her
rabbit to school. The child
ren’s excitement reached a
peak when the rabbit hopped
all over the classroom.
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