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I awoke thinking that I was at my parents\u2019 house.<\/p>\n

I could almost smell Mom\u2019s potato pancakes in the air, hear the comforting sounds of her and my father, whom I call Aba, bustling about downstairs.<\/p>\n

But then my eyes finally adjusted to the fluorescent light. The pale green walls, the metal bed rails\u2026I remembered where I was: the UC-Irvine Medical Center cancer ward. The last place on earth I wanted to be, especially the first night of Hanukkah.<\/p>\n

I lay in the hospital bed, woozy from antibiotics. The drugs left me in a kind of haze, never quite certain what was real and what was imagined. I remembered Mom bringing me here several days ago, feverish and miser\u00adable.<\/p>\n

By now I had come to expect long hospital stays after chemotherapy treatments that left my immune system helpless against infection. But I had prayed\u2014had believed\u2014that this time would be different.<\/p>\n

After months of fighting leukemia<\/a> I wanted to be home for Hanukkah with my family, to light the menorah and hear the story of how when the temple was rededicated in Jerusalem there was only enough oil to light the menorah for one day.<\/p>\n

But it continued burning until more oil could be made\u2014for eight days!<\/p>\n

I looked forward to my father, a rabbi, saying the traditional prayers, those words honoring a God of miracles. I needed to hear my father\u2019s voice, to feel his unshakeable faith.<\/p>\n

But that wouldn\u2019t be happening. No way could a menorah be lit in a hospital room. A fire hazard, the hospital staff said.<\/p>\n

I sank back into the pillow. God<\/em>, I prayed, you knew how much I needed this. Couldn\u2019t you have granted me this much?<\/em><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t want to think about the alternative. Perhaps God was answer\u00ading me. Maybe this was his way of telling me that the cancer had finally won.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t how my life was supposed to turn out<\/em>, I thought. I was going to be a rabbi, walking in my father\u2019s footsteps, one of God\u2019s servants. I\u2019d just finished my second year of rabbinical school that July when I came down with what I thought was a bad case of the flu.<\/p>\n

Then I got the diagnosis: leukemia, an extremely aggressive form. Even with the most powerful chemotherapy available, my chances for survival were slim.<\/p>\n

Slowly I sat up. I was still alive, if you could call it that. I\u2019d survived longer than doctors expected, months longer. But what was the point if I couldn\u2019t celebrate my faith? Why now, when I needed God most, did it feel as if he had abandoned me? Why hadn\u2019t he just let me die in July?<\/p>\n

\u201cHave faith,\u201d my father always counseled at times like this. \u201cRemember God\u2019s teachings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aba had been the one who had assured me that I would celebrate Hanukkah<\/a>. Even in the hospital. \u201cWe\u2019ll get it done,\u201d he had said with total conviction. I\u2019d believed him, until I\u2019d overheard the conversations outside my room.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn open flame?\u201d a voice had said. \u201cIn the hospital? You\u2019ve got to be kidding.\u201d I\u2019d heard nothing more about it from Aba. I\u2019d never known him to fail. It must have crushed him.<\/p>\n

In just a few hours\u2014a half hour after sunset\u2014menorahs would be lit along the West Coast.<\/a><\/p>\n

I thought of everything that would be happening at home, Mom making foods fried in oil like potato pancakes to remind us of the first Hanukkah. Aba arranging the menorahs around the dining room table, one for each family member. All of us lighting them after Aba said the prayers.<\/p>\n

Except for me. Would Aba even put out my menorah? What would be the point?<\/p>\n

The hospital was oddly silent, as if everyone had left me. I felt myself fading, getting weaker. My eyes closed.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I awoke to what seemed like a dream. There gathered in my room were my parents, my grandmother, my brother-in-law, my sister and her baby. Four generations. And someone I didn\u2019t recognize, a man in a blue uniform.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m from the hospital maintenance department,\u201d he explained. \u201cThe fire department asked me to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n

My mother held out a new silver-plated, oil-burning menorah. \u201cHappy Hanukkah,\u201d she said, setting the menorah on a table by my bed. \u201cYou know your father. He can be very persuasive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is your Hanukkah, Yosef,\u201d my father said with a smile. \u201cThey would permit only the one menorah. So we would like you to light it and then say the prayers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, Aba, you\u2019re the rabbi,\u201d I weakly protested.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I get to decide,\u201d he responded.<\/p>\n

Slowly I swung my legs onto the floor and stood, leaning on my father. The maintenance man stepped forward. My hand shook slightly as I lit the oil. The flame enveloped the wick and I could feel its warmth, first on my hand and then through my body.<\/p>\n

Then I heard myself praying the words I\u2019d longed to hear. \u201cBlessed are you, Lord our God, King of the universe, who performed miracles for our forefathers in those days, at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBeautiful,\u201d my father said when the prayers were finished. \u201cYou didn\u2019t need to hear me pray. You needed to say the words yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was true. This was my twenty-first Hanukkah, but it was as if I were hearing those words for the very first time. God, creator of miracles, from the beginning, hemmed in by a few hospital rules?<\/p>\n

I had been the one who had put limitations on what he could do. To him, even my leukemia wasn\u2019t an obstacle.<\/p>\n

That Hanukkah in the hospital was the first of many miracles that God performed in my life. Ultimately he connected me with an Israeli bone-marrow donor whose gift left me cancer-free. I finished school and was later ordained as a rabbi.<\/p>\n

The first night of Hanukkah this year, I\u2019ll sit down at my parents\u2019 table, laden with Mom\u2019s good cooking, and listen to my father say the prayers. Then I will light my silver menorah, the flame of my faith burning brighter and stronger than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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