Chanukah 5770 Day 4: Lighting Up The World

When put on the spot with, "Tell me a vort," the first one that enters my mind is the one about this world being like a wedding hall (ha'olam hazeh domeh leprozdor lifnei olam habah) and also being compared to darkness (domeh lechoshech). An answer to this apparent contradiction is that the world is a beautiful place and it is covered in darkness. Torah (i.e. our leading a life of Torah) illuminates and thus reveals the grandeur of our dark world. (I heard this from Rabbi Zevulun Charlop, Shli"tah, at a rabbinic luncheon circa 1991. He cited an obscure sefer that I really want to find out the name of).