{"id":13703,"date":"2025-10-01T17:43:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehealingmindmagazine.com\/newedition\/?p=13703"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:28:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:28:20","slug":"hanukkah-a-celebration-of-light-resilience-and-hope-by-mariette-kammerer-the-healing-mind-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehealingmindmagazine.com\/newedition\/hanukkah-a-celebration-of-light-resilience-and-hope-by-mariette-kammerer-the-healing-mind-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanukkah: A Celebration of Light, resilience, and Hope &#8211; By Mariette Kammerer -The Healing Mind Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#e2e2e2;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"max-width:1352px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_3_5 3_5 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h2 data-start=\"65\" data-end=\"140\"><em data-start=\"81\" data-end=\"138\">Hanukkah \u2013 A Celebration of Light, Resilience, and Hope<\/em><\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"142\" data-end=\"395\">Every winter, as nights grow longer, Jewish families around the world light the menorah, adding one candle each evening for eight days. 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