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If you only have one candle on Friday, should you light it as a Shabbat candle or a Chanukah one?
There is a law about Chanukah I find moving and profound. Maimonides writes that ‘the command of Chanukah lights is very precious. One who lacks the money to buy lights should sell something, or if necessary borrow, so as to be able to fulfil the mitzvah.’
The question then arises, What if, on Friday afternoon, you find yourself with only one candle? What do you light it as — a Shabbat candle or a Chanukah one? It can’t be both. Logic suggests that you should light it as a Chanukah candle. After all, there is no law that you have to sell or borrow to light lights for Shabbat. Yet the law is that, if faced with such a choice, you light it as a Shabbat light. Why?
Listen to Maimonides: ‘The Shabbat light takes priority because it symbolises shalom bayit, domestic peace. And great is peace because the entire Torah was given in order to make peace in the world.’
Consider: Chanukah commemorates one of the greatest military victories in Jewish history. Yet Jewish law rules that if we can only light one candle — the Shabbat light takes precedence, because in Judaism the greatest military victory takes second place to peace in the home.
Why did Judaism, alone among the civilisations of the ancient world, survive? Because it valued the home more than the battlefield, marriage more than military grandeur, and children more than generals. Peace in the home mattered to our ancestors more than the greatest military victory.
So as we celebrate Chanukah, spare a thought for the real victory, which was not military but spiritual. Jews were the people who valued marriage, the home, and peace between husband and wife, above the highest glory on the battlefield. In Judaism, the light of peace takes precedence over the light of war.
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My Brother's Keeper (2005)
BBC: Rosh Hashanah 5766
Agents of Hope (2003)
BBC: Rosh Hashanah 5764
A Message for the Jewish New Year (2001)
BBC: Rosh Hashanah 5762
Does God Have a Place in the Marketplace? (2000)
BBC: Rosh Hashanah 5761
Guardians of the World (1999)
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More than a FunFair (1998)
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A Single Gesture (1997)
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The Tough Questions (1996)
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Remember us for Life (1995)
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Time for Caring (1994)
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Please Forgive Us (1993)
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Beginning Again (1992)
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The Chief Rabbi's Induction
The Unwritten Ending (1991)
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