Healthy Sufganiyot
Volunteers from the Healthy Food Basket project visited Hesed clients to share care, warmth, and true holiday spirit.
During Hanukkah week, one simple truth becomes especially clear: light lives not only in candles. It appears in conversation, in a caring gesture, in the fact that someone finds the time to come and be there. That very light filled the meeting organized by volunteers together with the Healthy Food Basket project, who visited Hesed clients to offer attention, warmth, and a genuine festive mood.
The gathering began with Havdalah — a quiet, intimate ritual that helps separate the sacred from the everyday. In that moment, time seemed to slow down. The space filled with a tangible sense of calm, meaning, and the simple feeling of “we are together.” Havdalah set the tone for the entire meeting — one where presence and participation mattered more than loud words.
Afterwards, volunteers and participants prepared a healthy version of sufganiyot, following a special recipe developed by nutritionist Kamilla Faizrakhmanova. This was not a symbolic cooking activity, but true shared creativity. Some mixed the dough, others helped where needed, and many shared stories and smiles while watching the Hanukkah treat come to life. In moments like these, food stops being just food — it becomes a way of saying: “We are here. We remember. We care.”
This meeting once again reminded us that Hanukkah light is found in simple things: in unhurried dialogue, in smiles that restore confidence, in good deeds that become tradition. And perhaps most importantly — in the ability to be together in a way that lets the holiday remain not just for one evening, but inside us for a long time.