LIGHT UNTO OUR NATION. 

An amazing story shared in this week's Mishpacha magazine.

Yaakov Yosef, an 11-year-old boy from Monsey, was nine when he was diagnosed with leukemia.

For two very challenging years, he battled courageously, taking his many medications and enduring grueling treatments.

His mother saved every one of the empty medicine containers. 

One day, he approached her. "Mommy," he asked, "when all this is over, can we make a trophy out of these containers?"

Yaakov Yosef's mother nodded. Of course - no one deserved a trophy more than he did.

As Chanukah this year approached and Yaakov Yosef neared the end of his treatment, his family realized that the final pill would be taken on... Zos Chanukah!!

And so rather than build a trophy, the family built a Menorah.

The light at the end of the tunnel.

And our prayer is that this light should spread far and wide, illuminating fellow Jewish lives and banishing all darkness.

May He who performed miracles for our fathers perform miracles now. 

Credit: Shmuel Botnick and Yosef Herz in Mishpacha magazine.