## Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Eighth Night, From the Thought of Rabbi Sacks

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**Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:**
You can see religion as a battle, a holy war, in which you win a victory for your faith by force or fear. Or you can see it as a candle you light to drive away some of the darkness of the world.


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**Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:**
The difference is that the first sees other religions as the enemy. The second sees them as other candles, not threatening mine, but adding to the light we share.


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**Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:**
What Jews remembered from that victory over the Greeks twenty-two centuries ago was not a God of war but the God of light. And it’s only the God of light who can defeat the darkness in the human soul.


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**Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:**
***From Optimism to Hope*, 96**


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**Ceremony & Celebration Family Edition, Maggid Books, 2023:**
❖ **Points to Ponder**
1. *Does Judaism see religion as a battle or as a candle?*


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2. *What is the connection between this passage and the message from Rabbi Sacks in “To Light Another Light” (p. 86)?*