Eight Lights

Maimonides writes that these lights are intended only “to manifest and reveal the miracle”. They exist only in order to draw our focus to the realm of the miraculous; they are dedicated tools of meditation.

When we look at the Menorah lights, it is an ideal time to meditate on the Torah’s teaching that Ein od mi-L’vado, ... When we allow the light of the Menorah to fill the entire screen of our vision and imagination, it helps us realize that Divine light fills and permeates all of Creation.

When the dreidel is spinning intensely around its center, the four sides blur and appear circular; the multiple surfaces of the cube become as the single surface of a cylinder, as they cleave, so-to-speak, to the oneness of their center. Like the dreidel, we only topple when we loosen our intrinsic bond with our Center-point, and aspire to act independently of our source.