On the festival of lights, better known as Chanukah, we also get into this light and darkness thing. 4000 years ago, give or take a day, there was a great darkness. It was called night. It wasn't particularly unusual, and therefore not worth talking about.
Teen years are exciting, full of exploration.
But there are also cloudy days and dark nights. Times of confusion when it wouldn't hurt to have a bit more clarity and direction to shed some light. Years ago in the streets of Athens walked a man in the middle of the day carrying a torch. This is how one of the great Greek philosophers searched for the meaning of life and mankind. At the same time, not too far away in Jerusalem, the people had no reason to ask this question.