The world cannot exist without light. Thank G-d we have good street lights.
People can find the banks, the movies, the nightclubs and the ice cream parlors.
But the world is still dark, because the light in the world is to see your own heart, to see the people you love, to really see the deepest depths of life, the deepest depths of the Torah. Because when I see the whole world is full of Greek culture, full of Greek street lights I look at the world, it's still dark. When I took at my children, at the people I love and just for as I kindle the Chanuka lights, I pray for the light, the heavenly light, the light which shines between heaven and earth, between one human being and the other. Hanukah is the only mitzvah which is only at night, because sadly enough, most of us have to go through a lot of Greek darkness until we see the light - the one, the everlasting one. Israel goes through heavy times and the situation is a little bit dark, because we don't know where it's leading to.