This post is in honor of Mom and Dad, who taught us a great upbeat Hanukkah song in Yiddish that we sang every night of Hanukkah when we were kids, and even well into adulthood. I won't even make an attempt at transliteration, but it ends with three cheers of, "Hip hip hooray for the Maccabees!"
This was the first year that Rachel really appreciated it. She LOVES this song. As I was lighting the 6th candle tonight, she actually started saying the prayer with me! She insists that we turn the lights off when I light the menorah and keep them off when we eat dinner. And when I start singing the Hanukkah song her face lights up, she starts smiling and laughing, and at the end she exclaims, "Sing it AGAIN!"
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