Their light may not be used even for reading, because it is not for the household, but for the world, on long winter nights of the waning moon. Later authorities ruled that Chanukah lights must be small, not a series of torches. The miracle they symbolize is the victory of apparently weak over a powerful army. A miracle is a sign of God's presence in the world. So is the quieter process of building small lights into a massive illumination, a process exemplified by the eventual sanctification of a custom created by generations of ordinary people, who acted on their need to create light at the heart of darkness, until their light created a blessing.
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