Why is Menorah the Rambam's Most Beloved Mitzvah?

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December 10 2025
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Venue: Eitz Chaim of Dogwood Park Eitz Chaim of Dogwood Park

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Chanukah 

References: Shabbat: 21B  

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Why does the Rambam say of lighting the menorah that it is חביבה היא עד מאד, extremely beloved - a title he does not give to any other mitzvah? Three approaches: Reward, Spirituality, and the Greatness of the Individual.

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    Learning on the Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah site is sponsored today by Miriam & Alan Goldberg and Ruth Peyser Kestenbaum to mark the thirteenth yahrtzeit of their father, Irwin Peyser, Harav Yisroel Chaim ben R’ Dovid V’ Fraidah Raizel Peyser and by Gerald & Eleanor Frenkel and Henry & Joan Silberman to mark the yahrtzeit of Sheva bas Shmuel Roer and by the Weinberg and Klepfish families l'ilui nishmas Refael Zev Avraham ben Harav Moshe