The Power of One Small Light 💡
As we lit our first candle🕯, I thought about the power of one little candle. A small light in the darkness💥. We need the light of the נרות so much this year. What can one small candle do? What does it represent? 🤔
It is the light of a mitzvah. It’s the light of our souls💥. It might seem small and only burn for a short time, but the light of this mitzvah stays with us forever. Every mitzvah, every good deed brings light into the world. The light of the candles grows and gets more powerful each night🕯🕯, as we ascend to the Eighth Day of Chanukah זאת חנוכה, which is the pinnacle of the holiday. However, the power of lighting just one candle, one small light, is immeasurable🤯. Even if we were only able to light just one candle, if we didn’t have enough candles or oil; we also fulfill the mitzvah.
Rav Shlomo Carlebach z”l teaches that during the rest of the year even when we do something good, we might think it’s nothing, it’s not important😢. We don’t value our good acts. We don’t find Gd’s light in them. He explains that is because we don’t value ourselves enough, we don’t feel the light of our souls. We don’t see our special light. However, on Chanukah everything is illuminated🔥. When we light a candle, we know it’s Hashem’s light. Suddenly we understand that all the good deeds we did during the year were bringing Gd’s light into the world.
May we merit🙏 with the amazing spiritual light we receive during Chanukah to see our own light all throughout the year. May we believe in our own light, our beautiful souls. Gd willing we will then be able to look at another person, a loved one or even someone we don’t know so well, and we will see their special light as well.
חנוכה שמח
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