The Chanukah Question
December 1st, 2010 Print
Is it a Jewish value to yield or to resist? What is the difference between the Chanukah lights and The Shabbos candles?
Sarah Yocheved Rigler’s article on Aish has the answers.
The El Al security official at the L.A. airport eyed my mother-in-law suspiciously. She couldn’t imagine what the problem was. The security official looked hard at my mother-in-law, studied her passport, looked up again at her face, gazed down again at her passport, and finally called over his colleague.
Visiting Jerusalem at the age of 88, she made daily pilgrimages to the Western Wall, trekking up 135 steps. Even while celebrating her 90th birthday this week, she still walks with a bounce in her stride.
“Look at this woman,” he commanded. “Her passport says she is almost 90 years old. Can that be true?”
Like the El Al security official, I have always been perplexed by my mother-in-law, Evelyn.
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