Shalom, and Happy Hanukkah, my friends. Tonight will be the first night I have celebrated Hanukkah since I was a child and my family hosted a Jewish foreign exchange student.

As a Noahide, I am very grateful for Rabbi Moshe Wiener's guide to Celebrating Hanukkah 🕎 for Noahides. https://asknoah.org/faq/noahide-lighting-hanukkah-candles#:~:text=As%20verified%20by%20Rabbi%20Moshe,reciting%20the%20associated%20Jewish%20blessings.

Remember, we do this, not as a way of following Jewish mitzvot, but to celebrate and publicize the great and open miracles of HaShem.

Of course, B'ezrat HaShem, His next miracle may be for me NOT to set my apartment on fire tonight!! This is the only menorah I could find in Vietnam, so assuming my candles stay standing, we will have 8 days of miracles in my own home! OK, time for me to get cooking. Chag sameach!

This is a short summary of the previous week's Torah portion, Parashas Vayischlach, with some of my own thoughts added.

Parashas Vayischlach

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tissot_The_Meeting_of_Esau_and_Jacob.jpg

"This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer."

This parashas details the many events that unfolded when Jacob returned to Eretz Israel.

Who Will Resurrect? Daniel 12:2-3

In Daniel Chapter 12:2

וְרַבִּ֕ים מִיְּשֵׁנֵ֥י אַדְמַת־עָפָ֖ר יָקִ֑יצוּ אֵלֶּה לְחַיֵּ֣י עוֹלָ֔ם וְאֵ֥לֶּה לַֽחֲרָפ֖וֹת לְדִרְא֥וֹן עוֹלָֽם:

"And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awaken-these for eternal life, and those for disgrace, for eternal abhorrence."

Chapter 12:3

Link to our last Sunday Class on Chanukah