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Tonight and tomorrow night--the night of 9/17 and day of 9/18, '06--is 25 'Elul, the anniversary of the First Day of Creation when G-d said "Let there be light" ("Yehi 'or!"). Ro'sh HaShanah, the Jewish New Year (which begins this coming Shabbat/Yom Shevi`i) is the anniversary of the sixth day of creation, when Adam and Eve were created. For this reason the number 25 is associated with light. Chanukkah, the Feast of Lights, begins on 25 Kislev. Moreover, the number 25 is rendered in Hebrew by the letters kaf and he'. This explains in part HaShem's strange word when searching...