Chanukkiyah in the Window

We place the menorah in the window in order to "publicize the miracle" of Chanukah. But the person who sees the menorah through the window sees it as if the candles went from left to right, instead of from right to left. Only on the eighth and final night, when the menorah is fully lit, is the menorah seen the same way from the outside as it is from the inside.

Our work is to move towards lighting our menorah with all eight lights, to move towards making what is true on the inside visible on the outside. This kind of growth takes much more than the eight days of Chanukkah; it is the work of a lifetime.