Hannukah's Candles

The holiday season here in Beijing is long and filled with fun. It starts with Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of light. Day after day, for 8 days, candles are lit, one additional light on each night of the holiday. It is the commemoration of rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, in 2nd century BC (thanks Wiki).

For Hanukkah, we had not 8 but 9 candle lighting!!! Well, I should say that we missed the first lighting at the Chabad because we got delayed in traffic. And we lit the last and the supplemental ones with some friends. As Pauli was away for most of the week, and since I do not know those songs yet, I could only wait for some more experienced folks. Next year, maybe we will do better use of our hanukkiah.

In any cases, needless to say that kids love it. And that the best part are Manor's freshly home made sufganiots, those sweet donuts! Yummy!