We are all, whether we acknowledge it or not, living expressions of the flame of Hanukkah, which refuses to submit to mere normalcy. It must have been an extraordinary experience when the kohanim in the days of the Hasmoneans suddenly realized that a tiny amount of oil that should have lasted for only one day would last for eight days. This is the foundation of genuine religiosity - the dawning of awareness that all things cannot be explained by the ordinary. It is radical amazement, which shatters the commonplace and makes us realize that our wisdom is sometimes inferior to dust.