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Source: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/what-hamas-can-never-understand-and-never-extinguish/
What Hamas Can Never Extinguish
(Times of Israel) Sarah Tuttle-Singer - Six hostages - later murdered in a tunnel - standing close together underground, lighting a menorah. No windows. No sky. No sense of time. Just faces we now know, hands shielding a small flame from whatever draft reaches even hell. Because we are Jews, there is this stubborn impulse to mark time. To insist on ritual even when the world has collapsed into one long agonizing night. This is what Hamas could not extinguish. Judaism is not only belief; it is practice under pressure. It is community created in impossible places. A circle formed in a tunnel. A flame lit not because it will save you, but because it reminds you who you are. The menorah is a symbol of defiance, of people refusing to dissolve into captives, refusing to become only bodies waiting to be traded or killed. Even knowing the danger, they chose togetherness over despair. They chose memory. They chose each other. In a hellscape meant to erase them, they made a small Jewish room, and let light enter.