Chanukah: Shedding Light on Human Dignity
What should a poor person who cannot afford Chanukah candles do? "Pawn or sell the shirt off his back," says the 12th Century legist and philosopher Moses Maimonides.
OLAM CEO Dyonna Ginsburg looks at the seeming contradiction between the way Maimonides prioritizes lighting Chanukah candles over a poor person's dignity, in his Eight Levels of Charity.
