I don’t remember the last time I was able to so relate to a powerful story I heard, in a manner I never could have imagined.

I was asked to share divrei Torah in my neighborhood shul before Hakafos on Simchas Torah evening.

I know the Jewish people have been doing the Simchas Torah dancing thing the same way for thousands of years. But based on some trends I see in America, I was thinking of some new ideas we can introduce into our Simchas Torah celebration.

Rabbi Avrohom Yachnes is an insightful, veteran rebbi, with a wealth of stories to boot, which he shares in his inimitable manner. (He is also the author of A Treasure for Life: Commentary and Insights into Sefer Orchos Tzadikim.)

One morning two summers ago, in our bungalow in Camp Dora Golding, my wife made a rather interesting discovery when she went to wake up our (then) six-year-old twins. There were a couple of empty Snapple bottles with a bunch of dead fireflies on the bottom. When she asked the twins to explain, they replied that they made themselves natural night lights.