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Chanukah is about dedication. The very word
“Chanukah” means dedication. After we

recognize what hooks have gotten lodged in us
and begun to free ourselves of them, to live lives

of wholeness and true fulfillment we must

remember what most deserves our dedication.
What deserves our attention, why are we here,

what do we want our lives to be about? Chanukah
is a time to remind yourself and those around you

of what you most value, to reconsecrate yourself
to those ideals. It is a time for renewed dedication

to the deepest and the most high.

Chanukah is first about overcoming conquest and
secondly about rededicating ourselves to what we

most deeply value. Chanukah is the story of the
value of hope against hope. It is the story how

hope can upset of the natural order of things. It is

the story of a moment in history when, because
of HUMAN HOPE, the inevitable -- didn’t happen.

“The ordinary, the expected and the natural were
overwhelmed by the extra-ordinary, the

unexpected and the spiritual.”