On Sunday night Jews in Israel and all over the world lit the first candle of eight on their hanukkiot. In honor of the holiday, host Marcela Sulak reads poems about miracles, light, and candles, for instance Ronny Someck's "Poem to a Girl Already Born":

"On the day you were born the workers of joywarmed their hands against the fire, litwith the match of your life.Night after night I am possessed with the sound of your breathas if it were the glimmer of a lighthouse for a sailor who was almost devouredby the ocean’s teeth."

Our 2014 Hanukkah podcast focused on the story of the Maccabi revolt and modern day Hanukkah traditions. This year Marcela conveys the spiritual side of the festival of light.
Texts:T. Carmi: "Miracles" (Poetry International Rotterdam)T. Carmi: "Awakening" (Poems Found in Translation)T. Carmi: The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself: A new and updated edition. Ed. Stanley Burnshaw, T. Carmi, Susan Glassman, Ariel Hirschfeld and Ezra Spicehandler. Wayne State University Press, 2003.Ronny Someck & Dan Armon: Poets on the Edge: An Anthology of Contemporary Hebrew Poetry. Translated by Tzipi Keller. SUNY Press, 2004.
Music:Itzhar Cohen - Al HaNisimYosef Karduner - Maoz TzurRuhama Raz - Nerotai HaZeirim