Last Friday (that’s the 15th) we went over to Charley’s condo for the first night of Hanukah. Nicole and Emma were there, too.
Pictures of Hanukah menorahs almost always show you eight candles going (or really, nine). Just because that’s only what they look like on the last night of the holiday, here’s how it was on Friday. There’s one real Hanukah candle going. You see two? The blue one is the helper candle. Hanukah candles are just to look at, not to provide light or do anything useful. Lighting another candle would be useful, so you do that with the helper candle. There’s always one more flame than Hanukah candles!
