PERSPECTIVES → IN FOCUS Issue 1091 · December 17, 2025

Eight Days of Life  

To live means more than to be alive. It means to appreciate what true life is about

Eight Days of Life  

Rav Moshe Wolfson writes that, on Chanukah, every Jew is endowed with a dimension of kehunah. For eight days we’re all Kohanim.

Welcome to the tribe.

The role you’ll assume during this special time is one that I am so proud to have held since the moment of my birth.

Being a Kohein means everything to me: It’s an identity, a mission, an inheritance, and a destiny, all blended into one.

And now that you’ll be joining the ranks, allow me to offer some words of direction — consider this an orientation class of sorts.

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