75 Best Hanukkah Quotes, Messages & Letter Board Sayings

This year while you reflect on the meaning of Hanukkah, you can have a little fun with our letter board sayings too! Lighting the menorah serves as a reminder that from within darkness, there is always hope. We’ve compiled the best Hanukkah quotes, Hanukkah sayings, Hanukkah messages, famous quotes about Hanukkah, funny Hanukkah sayings, Hanukkah letter board quotes and happy Hanukkah quotes! Be sure to bookmark this mega list of quotes and sayings that you can use all eight nights.

Hanukkah Quotes

It’s time to dust off the menorah and get ready for another Hanukkah celebration! Use these quotes for your holiday cards, as a social media caption or just to brighten your day:

• “May the lights of Hanukkah usher in a better world for all humankind.” – Unknown
• “The spirit of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, is shared by all people who love freedom.”― Norma Simon
• “The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.” — G.K. Chesterton
• “A little bit of light dispels a lot of darkness.”— Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi
• “At this time of year, when the sun is most hidden, the holiday of Hanukkah celebrates the rays of hope and light. Often, it is through simple and unrecognized miracles that we are able to feel the warmth of hope and light.” — Rafael Goldstein
• “A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.”— James Keller
• “Imagine if your cell phone battery was on 10% and it lasted for 8 days. Now you understand Hanukkah.” —Unknown

• “The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.” — Irving Greenberg
• “This is the season when people of all faiths and cultures are pushing back against the planetary darkness. We string bulbs, ignite bonfires, and light candles. And we sing.”—Anita Diamant
• “A candle is a small thing. But one candle can light another. And see how its own light increases, as a candle gives its flame to the other. You are such a light.” — Moshe Davis
• “This is the season when people of all faiths and cultures are pushing back against the planetary darkness. We string bulbs, ignite bonfires, and light candles. And we sing.” — Anita Diamant
• “We light candles in testament that faith makes miracles possible.” — Rabbi Nachum Braverman

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Hanukkah Sayings

Whether you celebrate Hanukkah or just want to send a greeting to someone who does, we’ve got you covered! These Hanukkah sayings are just what you need:

• Hanukkah Sameach (Happy Hanukkah)
• Chag Sameach (Happy Holiday)
• Chag Urim Sameach (Happy Festival of Lights)
• Wishing you a bright and meaningful Hanukkah
• Thank you for teaching me the meaning of Hanukkah
• Spin the dreidel

• Keep calm and eat latkes
• May your holidays be as bright as a fully lit menorah
• Coming home for the challa-days
• Love, peace, and latke grease
• There’s snow place like home for Hanukkah

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Hanukkah Messages

Need a Hanukkah message for a greeting card? Look no further! These Hanukkah messages will put a smile on their face:

• You light up my life
• Let the light shine bright
• As your menorah glows with light, may all eight days be warm and bright
• Hope your Hanukkah is great… times 8!
• Wishing you a latke love this Hanukkah
• Let the light shine every day of your life

• May the light of the season shine throughout the year
• Chanukkah, Chanukah, Hanukkah. However you spell it, I hope yours is the happiest!!
• What’s the best Hanukkah gift for the person who has everything? A security system.
• Happy Hanukkah from our home to yours
• May love and light fill your heart this Hanukkah

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Happy Hanukkah Quotes

Happy Hanuukah! We’ve chosen the best Happy Hanukkah quotes to share with you, bookmark this list for all eight nights:

• “We light candles in testament that faith makes miracles possible.” – Nachum Braverman
• “Hanukkah is about the freedom to be true to what we believe without denying the freedom of those who believe otherwise. It’s about lighting our candle, while not being threatened by or threatening anyone else’s candle.” — Rabbi Jonathan Sacks z”l
• “Hanukkah is about the spark of the divine in all of us made in G-d’s image.” —Suzanne Fields
• “May we all be blessed with miracles wherever we need them.” — Micaela Ezra
• “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” —Edith Wharton
• “The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light—in a little cruse—lasted as long as they say; but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day: let that nourish my flickering spirit.” — Charles Reznikoff
• “Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” –Anne Frank

• “On Hanukkah, some people ask: Why couldn’t we light all eight candles in one night instead of having to light a new one for each of eight nights? It is because Hanukkah is not merely a cause for celebrations; it is a trial of perseverance.”—Simon Nguyen
• “To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every cubic inch of space is a miracle.”— Walt Whitman
• “Just as Hanukkah candles are lighted one by one from a single flame, so the tale of the miracle is passed from one man to another, from one house to another, and to the whole House of Israel throughout the generations.”— Judah Leon Magnes
• “Just as Hanukkah candles are lighted one by one from a single flame, so the tale of the miracle is passed from one man to another, from one house to another, and to the whole House of Israel throughout the generations.” —Judah Leon Magnes
• “The darkess of the whole world cannot swallow the glowing of a candle.” — Robert Altinger, Author

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Funny Hanukkah Sayings

Your Hanukkah will be lit with these funny Hanukkah sayings that everyone will love!

• When life gives you potatoes, you make latkes
• The menorah isn’t the only thing getting lit tonight
• Happy Llamakkah
• You little horah
• You Maccabee kiddin’ me
• Hanukkah Matata!
• Let’s gelt together

• 100% that Jew
• Hey, matzo fast…
• Meet me by the menorah
• Knish me, I’m Jewish
• My Hanukkah was LIT
• I ain’t no Challah back girl

Hanukkah Letter Board Sayings

Looking for fun Hanukkah letter board ideas? These Hanukkah sayings will light up your letter board this holiday season:

• Deck the halls with matzo balls
• It’s so much funukkah to celebrate Hanukkah
• Happy Challa-days
• Let it glow
• Leave a little light wherever you go
• Oy to the world
• This is how we Jew it
• Eight crazy nights

• You spin me right round baby
• Love – peace – joy
• You’re my gelt-y pleasure
• Eight nights and eight lights
• Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel
• Dre-del
• A whole latke fun
• Shalom y’all