Meaningful Moadim
  • Welcome to Meaningful Moadim
    • Introducung Chodesh Adar
    • Mishenichnas Adar Marbim BeSimcha >
      • A Purim Thought
      • Mazal Adar Dagim - The Month of Adar is Symbolized by Fish
      • More on Mazel Adar Dagim
      • The First of "the Four Parshiyos" - Parshas Shekalim
      • The Month of Adar and Purim >
        • Holiday of Unity?
      • Why Megillas ESTHER?
      • Purim and Prayer >
        • Prayer in the Megillah
      • The Most Unhappiest Queen of them all
      • Purim and Charity
      • Making Purim Last Throughout the Year
      • Story: The Purim of Saragosa
      • Chanukah: The Festival of Lights >
        • Are we celebrating the victory over the Greeks or the Miracle of the Oil? >
          • Miracle Oil?
          • The Jewish People Are Above Nature
          • The Light of the Jewish Soul Glows on Chanukah
          • Chanukah: A Winter Festival
          • Chanukah: A War of Conflicting Philosophies >
            • Alexander The Great and The Jewish Sages
            • Uphold Good or Destroy Evil?
            • LeHashkicham Torasecha U’LeHa’aviram MeiChukei Retzonecha
          • Why was a holiday established specifically for the war that led to the Chanukah miracle?
          • U’Leamcha Yisrael Assisa Teshua Gedola U’furkan K’Hayom Hazeh…
        • Give the Gift of LIGHT!
        • Customs, Symbols & Observances >
          • More Reasons for Doughnuts on Chanukah
          • The Letters on the Dreidel
          • More Customs >
            • More About the Dreidel
            • More on Dreidel
            • Chanukah Gelt
            • The Lesson of "Chanukah Gelt"
            • L'Hodos U'LaHallel
          • More Symbolism >
            • Symbolism of Olive Oil
            • The Greeks vs. The Jews
            • The Little Jug that Traveled Through Time
          • The Custom to serve Dairy and Cheese Products on Chanukah
          • Tzedaka - Charity
        • The Shamash >
          • The Secret of the Shamash
        • Putting Away the Menorah?
        • Recommended Reading
      • KISLEV - Great Expectations >
        • What is Chanukah? >
          • The Name of the Holiday >
            • Chanukah: Renewal
            • Why is Shehechiyanu recited only on the first night of Chanukah?
            • Biblical Allusions
            • Another explanation of the name Chanukah
            • Ve-Al Hnissim, not Al Hanissim
            • Mai Chanukah?
            • Bais Shamai and Bais Hillel (2)
            • Mazal Kislev Keshes
            • Why didn't the Kohanim themselves defile the oil if everyone was tamei, ritually impure due to the war? >
              • Chanukah Always has a Shabbos >
                • Chanukah Always Falls our Around parshas Mikeitz
              • Tu BiShevat - The New Year of the Trees >
                • Bearing Fruit
                • Pri Eitz Hadar
                • Tu BeShevat – A Day of Perceptible Belief
              • Tu B'shvat and Shabbos Shira
      • We blow the Shofar Throughout the Month of Elul
      • Shofar Throughout the Month of Elul
      • Reconnecting with our Father in Heaven
      • Month of Teves: Catastrophic Events
      • Questions or Comments? >
        • TAKING A MOMENT OUT FOR A CHANUKAH THOUGHT >
          • TAKING A MOMENT OUT FOR A CHANUKAH THOUGHT
        • Calendar Converter

In  Ahl HaNissim, we recite the words, “U’Leamcha Yisrael Assisa Teshua Gedola U’furkan K’Hayom Hazeh…--and for Your people You worked a great victory and salvation as this day.”  What does “KeHayom Hazeh--as this day” really mean?  What is the day that we are referring to? 


The Sefer Baruch She’Amar (written by the Torah Temimah, Harav Boruch Halevi Epstein, z'l) suggests it means to express that although we experienced great salvation then, it was not an eternal one--which is yet to come--for just as this thing called day gets light (as it did at the time of the Chashmonaim), and then turns dark, so, too, will it get to be light once again--and it is that daylight (this time an eternal one) that we await! 
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  • Welcome to Meaningful Moadim
    • Introducung Chodesh Adar
    • Mishenichnas Adar Marbim BeSimcha >
      • A Purim Thought
      • Mazal Adar Dagim - The Month of Adar is Symbolized by Fish
      • More on Mazel Adar Dagim
      • The First of "the Four Parshiyos" - Parshas Shekalim
      • The Month of Adar and Purim >
        • Holiday of Unity?
      • Why Megillas ESTHER?
      • Purim and Prayer >
        • Prayer in the Megillah
      • The Most Unhappiest Queen of them all
      • Purim and Charity
      • Making Purim Last Throughout the Year
      • Story: The Purim of Saragosa
      • Chanukah: The Festival of Lights >
        • Are we celebrating the victory over the Greeks or the Miracle of the Oil? >
          • Miracle Oil?
          • The Jewish People Are Above Nature
          • The Light of the Jewish Soul Glows on Chanukah
          • Chanukah: A Winter Festival
          • Chanukah: A War of Conflicting Philosophies >
            • Alexander The Great and The Jewish Sages
            • Uphold Good or Destroy Evil?
            • LeHashkicham Torasecha U’LeHa’aviram MeiChukei Retzonecha
          • Why was a holiday established specifically for the war that led to the Chanukah miracle?
          • U’Leamcha Yisrael Assisa Teshua Gedola U’furkan K’Hayom Hazeh…
        • Give the Gift of LIGHT!
        • Customs, Symbols & Observances >
          • More Reasons for Doughnuts on Chanukah
          • The Letters on the Dreidel
          • More Customs >
            • More About the Dreidel
            • More on Dreidel
            • Chanukah Gelt
            • The Lesson of "Chanukah Gelt"
            • L'Hodos U'LaHallel
          • More Symbolism >
            • Symbolism of Olive Oil
            • The Greeks vs. The Jews
            • The Little Jug that Traveled Through Time
          • The Custom to serve Dairy and Cheese Products on Chanukah
          • Tzedaka - Charity
        • The Shamash >
          • The Secret of the Shamash
        • Putting Away the Menorah?
        • Recommended Reading
      • KISLEV - Great Expectations >
        • What is Chanukah? >
          • The Name of the Holiday >
            • Chanukah: Renewal
            • Why is Shehechiyanu recited only on the first night of Chanukah?
            • Biblical Allusions
            • Another explanation of the name Chanukah
            • Ve-Al Hnissim, not Al Hanissim
            • Mai Chanukah?
            • Bais Shamai and Bais Hillel (2)
            • Mazal Kislev Keshes
            • Why didn't the Kohanim themselves defile the oil if everyone was tamei, ritually impure due to the war? >
              • Chanukah Always has a Shabbos >
                • Chanukah Always Falls our Around parshas Mikeitz
              • Tu BiShevat - The New Year of the Trees >
                • Bearing Fruit
                • Pri Eitz Hadar
                • Tu BeShevat – A Day of Perceptible Belief
              • Tu B'shvat and Shabbos Shira
      • We blow the Shofar Throughout the Month of Elul
      • Shofar Throughout the Month of Elul
      • Reconnecting with our Father in Heaven
      • Month of Teves: Catastrophic Events
      • Questions or Comments? >
        • TAKING A MOMENT OUT FOR A CHANUKAH THOUGHT >
          • TAKING A MOMENT OUT FOR A CHANUKAH THOUGHT
        • Calendar Converter