Question: Why is Hanukkah considered a children’s holiday?

Answer: Hanukkah is indeed considered a children’s holiday, as is Purim, which is even more of a children’s holiday.

During Hanukkah, children light candles, eat donuts, and sing songs. Each one can have their own menorah. The holiday is considered a children’s holiday because it symbolizes the beginning of a person’s ascent on spiritual steps.

Our entire spiritual work is like play, akin to that of a child, because we are constantly working on correcting ourselves. The forward movement and ascent from one step to another resemble the growth of a child.

Purim is an even greater holiday when we ascend very high spiritual levels toward complete correction. These are unimaginable steps that have never realized in our world!

We lived at the “Hanukkah” level 2,000 years ago during the time of the Maccabees, and even earlier for nearly a 1,000 years from entering the land of Israel until losing it. After leaving Egypt, we began to attain the attributes of Hanukkah during the 40 years of wandering in the desert.

As for the attribute of Purim, we attempted to reach it during the period of the First Temple, but quickly fell from this level.

Purim is a very high holiday yet to come! We must not only return to it but create it, for it does not yet exist in us, we must bring it into being. This is why it is considered even more childlike.

During Purim, children and adults dress in costumes, and adults drink wine, which is encouraged and considered a significant commandment. Purim represents the forgiveness of all sins because one achieves the fulfillment of the ultimate commandment: love.

If Hanukkah represents good mutual connection between us, then Purim symbolizes love, the attainment of the complete correction of all souls.

We should see ourselves as children who are constantly growing. A person who is growing is called a child.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/26/24, KabTV’s “The Kabbalistic Meaning of Hanukkah”

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