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On this Festival of Re dedication we may well ask ourselves: “What principles, what ideals so motivate us that we are ready to dedicate or rededicate our lives to them? What cause is so dear to us that we would be willing to work for it, struggle for it, suf fer for it and die for it, if need be? A creed? A creed is a rod that may smite us with react ionary evil. A crown? The royalty of Antiochus was of darkness. There are those who are phy sically alive, but spiritually dead; those in whom there was once a light that flamed up briefly and then fluttered fee bly before being extinguished. They insist that they are burn ed out. Nothing interests them. Nothing stirs them,. Nothing vitalizes them. Nothing ignites them with the resplendent fire of enthusiasm. They have sub mitted to cynicism, yielded to pessimism, and capitulated to futility. They have quit on life, and tolerate the years only be cause they enable them to mark time in the inexorable march to the grave. They do not grow straight in the strength of their spirit. They rot and disintegrate in the weakness of their des pair. They do not live out their lives as the light, but are cast alive, as it were, into an un seen graveyard of unlighted candles. On this Feast of Lights we have to see more than gleam ing Hanukah candles, more than dripping tallow and form less wax; but with spiritual in sight behold a symbol, a design, and a summons “to live out thy life as the light." A candle that is not ignited is meaningless. It is a symbol of futility. It is tal low and wax that has not ful filled its purpose and its po tential of giving light. A hu man life that is not ignited by a great purpose is not fulfill ing its potential. It, too, is a symbol of futility—waiting for the touch of flame that will ignite it with purpose, with meaning, with burning signi ficance. Is it not the highest treason to self, and a betray al of the God within us to deny the divine motivation that im pels us to quest for beauty, hunger for truth, seek opport unities for service, and to pur sue the values that sanctify life with the quality of holiness? Isn't it an unpardonable sin against the divinity within to permit those qualities to re main dormant, buried, encrust ed with hopelessness, lethargy and futility — to permit the wick of the spirit to be un touched by the flame that might enable us to live out our lives as the light? What was it that recharged the waning spirit of Judaism throughout the centuries? What provided the strength, the im petus, and forced the rekindl ing of the Jewish spirit when nation , after nation sought to extinguish the light of faith? It was not a creed. It was not a ritual alone. It was not the might of arms. It was not the crown of national sovereignty. Is was what Montesquieu call ed “enthusiasm.” It was what Swinburne called the “strength of spirit,” and what the tea chers of Judaism called the “spirit of God” summoning Is rael to a sacred mission: “I, the Lord have called thee in right eousness, and have taken hold of thy hand, and kept thee, and set thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the nat ions; to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.” It was to this mission that Israel dedicated itself. It was this — the hope of fashion ing a world of decency, truth, and peace — that kindled and rekindled the flame of the Jewish spirit, and the will of Jews to live out their lives as the light. In an age of atomic fire, ,the world desperately needs the burning intensity of the Jewish faith that seeks to illumine life with the incandescent light of holy purpose. Those who ig nore Hanukah do more than ignore a significant festival. They ignore the symbolism of light to which Judaism is dedi cated. Unfortunately, they lose a precious and exalted opport unity to receive the strength that comes from heaven. We need that strength. We need the power, the light and fire of the Menorah in our homes, in our hearts, and in our world. We need Hanukah with its en thusiasm, and its rededication, and its rekindling of the eter nal values of decency, freedom and morality. At this season, may we res pond to the wisdom of the Chassidic rabbi: “My children, let each of you meet the chal lenge of darkness by lighting a candle.” When we kindle the Hanukah lights may some of the sacred fire of divinity touch our souls so that motivated by the luminous power that comes from heaven we may rededi cate ourselves to a holy pur pose. remembering that we do not rededicate ourselves to a creed—a creed is a rod. We do not rededicate ourselves to a crown — a crown is of the night. But this thing is God— this is divinity in your life and mine: “To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit, and to live out thy life as the light.” The Southern Israelite