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Hanukkah is the state of a miraculous spiritual transition from exile to redemption. Before we can experience spiritual redemption, we must first feel and recognize our state of spiritual exile. Exile is the state of being disconnected from spirituality, the lack of the feeling of the upper force of love, bestowal, and connection in our lives. This absence creates a deep yearning within us, and it is this yearning that prepares us for redemption.
This spiritual miracle is thus the appearance of the spiritual force from above that lets us rise above our inborn egoistic qualities and reach spiritual heights, levels of love, bestowal, and connection in our relations. It is through recognizing our exile and wanting to leave it behind that we can merit this miracle. The escape from exile is one part of redemption, but ultimately redemption is the revelation of the Creator, the upper force of love, bestowal, and connection shining upon us all.
This holiday teaches us to acknowledge that we are in exile, separated from the spiritual reality, and through this revelation to desire a connection with spirituality, to seek the presence of the Creator in our lives. Hanukkah reminds us to wish for spiritual redemption—not just individually but together as one. It is a collective experience, where we all rise from exile to feel the upper light—the force of love, bestowal, and connection—illuminating in the world.
This is why we at the Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education & Research Institute have arranged a global Unity Day today with thousands of Kabbalah students from around the world coming together to study Kabbalistic sources that discuss Hanukkah’s spiritual meaning, and to realize the miracle of directing ourselves at connection between us, through which we can ask the Creator to appear, to connect between us “as one man with one heart.” We can then feel ourselves rise above the exile and become rewarded with the redemption. That is indeed the miracle of Hanukkah that we hope to achieve: connection together in our hearts as one heart.
Based on Lesson 1 on Unity Day with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman on December 29. 2024. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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