chanukkah, illuminating my bedroom window

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the first menorah candle of 2010

Chanukkah lights are not for the "lighting of the house within", but rather for the "illumination of the house without", so it's traditional to put them in a window where they can be easily seen. This one is in my bedroom window, in a silver candlestick Silva gave me for my twenty-first birthday.