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As the Rabbi of Brisk, and later of the holy city of Yerushalayim, Rav Yehoshua Leib Diskin, known as the Maharil Diskin, zt”l, was known as a fiery gaon in Torah and a man of great chessed. In 1881, after years of fostering needy children and in the face of great suffering and poverty, the […]
From the blog of Adele Raemer at The Times of Israel
One of the names for the Jewish festival of Chanukah is Chag Urim, the Festival of Light. In the myth of creation found in Genesis, Divine Source created light on the first day, but the sun and the moon were not created until the fourth day. The primordial light from the first day of creation is the light of enlightenment. This is the light associated with spirituality and the human soul. At the end of the book of Proverbs, we learn that God’s lamp is the human soul, which is why so many cultures use candles for spiritual practices, particularly in rituals connected to mourning and ...