Some Light Reading for the Eighth Night of Hanukkah: Plutarch & the Pieseszner Rebbe

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited."

—Plutarch

"I am certain that after you spend a period of time engaged in constant work of this type, [mindfulness meditation] God will help you sense the rays of supernal light and divine holiness that have entered your soul, body and essence."

—Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, the Pieseszner Rebbe

You can download Shapira's guide to Jewish mindfulness meditation, as he taught it in Poland before being killed in the Holocaust.

May we all learn to burn with the fire of this, and not be consumed.