Shalom at Home

Hanukkah is the festival of lights.

Each night of Hanukkah we light an extra candle to create more light and enhance miracles in the darkness of winter.

A balabusta – a homemaker - I am not. I like to pretend a few times a year by making a brisket or perhaps a challah, but my influence over the domestic is superficial at best.

While attending the Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy, one of my elementary school Jewish Studies teachers tasked us with memorizing a very significant pasuk (line from the Torah) from the Torah portion, Parshat Lech Lecha.

It’s going to be a momentous day! It will be a day that calls to our deepest sense of responsibility! A day that sets us apart from the masses!

In just a few weeks, we will fill the pews to hear Parshat Vayeira, the Torah portion in which Abraham, aged and childless, sits in the entrance of his tent when he sees — what’s that? Three strangers?