Ceremony and Celebration Family Edition, The Hagim, Hanukka, The Sixth Night, From the Thought of Rabbi Sacks
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Something in the human spirit survives even the worst of tragedies, allowing us to rebuild shattered lives, broken institutions, and injured nations.
That, to me, is the Jewish story. Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions, and pogroms, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear.
Whenever I visit a Jewish school today, I see on the smiling faces of the children the ever-renewed power of that faith whose symbol is Ḥanukka and its light of inextinguishable hope.
Credo,The Times (December 8, 2012)
❖ Points to Ponder
- What do Jewish schoolchildren represent to Rabbi Sacks in this passage?
- What is the connection between this passage and the message from Rabbi Sacks on “The Third Miracle” (p. 78)?