KINDLING FLAMES

Special Chanukah Series: LOVE, LIGHTS, HANUKKAH! : Fascinating secrets of our Festival of Lights are embedded into the Talmud's account of Chanukah as well as in the Al Hanissim prayer formula. More than 2,000 years ago the secrets of our Festival of Lights were encoded into a prayer formula. The coder was recently deciphered, and the incredible story is now available to the public! This exciting third episode of the series sets out to decode the text of an ancient prayer formula and reveal the mysterious secret of light in contains. This penetrating and insightful analysis of the traditional text of Al HaNissim through a prism of copious sources will illuminate the story you thought you knew, bathing it in a whole new light. Here's a hint: Was there More than 1 Menorah Lit in the Original Story? The Holiday Liturgy speaks of “Kindled Flames” in “Holy Courtyards.” Yet the Temple Menorah only glowed behind closed doors. This anomaly will light up new pathways of understanding about how and why we originally lit things up, very differently than we tend to think of.