... Rabbi for a day (a Jewish tale)Once upon a time there lived a man named Jacob Kranz who was known as the Preacher of Dubno, famed far and wide for his wisdom and his parablesHe traveled ... nodded, for they knew that the first night of Hanukkah falls on 25 Kislev, and so, for each of the first five nights of the holiday, the sky grows a little darker. "So," said the preacher, ... from town to town teaching. One year, on the fifth night of Hanukkah, the rabbi told the people a tale of Hanukkah. "Our Jewish month is one lunar cycle," said the preacher, "beginning...