My Chanukah Experience

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Vanessa Fellus, Roslyn, NY

My Chanukah experience is mostly thrilling because this is the first year my family and I stuck the Chanukiah by a window in order to fulfill the mitzvah of pirsumei nisa (publicizing the miracle), which I just learned the importance of in my first year in yeshiva. B”H that I am even able to light these two beautiful menorahs for eight days. Hashem yerachem!!!

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