This holiday is all about celebrating the ancient festival of Hanukkah. It’s a time to share happiness and joy with family and friends, and to enjoy a festive meal. Here are some happy Hanukkah wishes to help you celebrate in style!
“Hanukkah is…the festival of lights, instead of one day of presents, we get eight crazy nights.” – Adam Sandler
“On Hanukkah, the first dark night, Light yourself a candle bright. I’ll you, if you will me invite to dance within that gentle light.” – Nicholas Gordon
“The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.” – Irving Greenberg
“Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.” – Emma Lazarus
“Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening’s forehead o’er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.” – Emma Lazarus
“Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame. Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart.” – Hannah Senesh
“I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.” – Jewish Proverb
“In everything you do you encounter sparks full of life and light, aspiring to rise toward the heights. You help them and they help you.” – Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook
“Let the straight flower bespeak its purpose in straightness – to seek the light. Let the crooked flower bespeak its purpose in crookedness – to seek the light. Let the crookedness and straightness bespeak the light.” – Allen Ginsberg
“The darkness of the whole world cannot swallow the glowing of a candle.” – Robert Altinger
“Eight days the light continued on its own: A miracle, they say, but not more so Than ordinary lives of flesh and bone, Consuming wicks burned ashen long ago.” – Nicholas Gordon
“Just as Hanukkah candles are lighted one by one from a single flame, so the tale of the miracle is passed from one man to another, from one house to another, and to the whole House of Israel throughout the generations.” – Judah Leon Magnes
