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Eight nights. Eight reasons. One person who makes your light brighter.
Not a menorah sticker. A short animated story: a dark room on a snowy night, and someone walks in carrying one lit candle. They tap, and all eight candles catch and the room fills with light. Then a spark leaves their hand, crosses the snow-covered city and reaches a dark window — they tap again, and the menorah there lights. Two characters, apart or together, your eight reasons and photos on the final page, your message, your greeting — and they can send the light back.
No sign-up · One minute · Two characters · Eight reasons · Plays on any phone
Quick answer
To make a Hanukkah card online, open The Light That Found You on MomentoCard, choose a character for you and one for them, pick who they are to you and whether you are apart or together, type eight short reasons you are grateful for them (one per candle), add up to three photos and a message, then share the link. They watch someone walk into a dark room with one candle, tap to light all eight, send the spark across a snowy city and tap again to light the menorah in the other window; your reasons and photos wait on the final page. It takes about three minutes to make, plays for about a minute, is free and needs no account.
One camera move through a room, across a city and into another room. It plays by itself in about a minute; tapping just makes it faster and theirs.
A dark room on a snowy night. Someone walks in carrying a single lit candle — the only light there is, on their face and the floor. “Tonight, I lit a light for someone who makes mine brighter.”
They tap. A spark runs from the shamash to every candle in turn, each catching with a soft bloom, and the whole room comes up warm — the glass, the garland, the stars outside.
A moment to stand in it. “Eight little lights. Eight reasons. One person.” Every candle has put a star in the window.
A spark lifts off the eighth flame onto their hand. One prompt: send the light. They tap, and it leaves through the window.
A spark lifts off the eighth flame onto their hand, leaves through the window and crosses the snow-covered city — rooftops, street lamps, pines — along the stars the candles made.
A dark window. The other person looks up. A pause — did it reach them? — and one more prompt: light their menorah. They tap, and it lights candle after candle.
Both windows glow across the city with a thread of light between them. “Maybe distance changes where we are. It doesn't change what connects us.” Then: one night became eight; one light became many.
Both of them beside one menorah, your photo of the two of you, their name, your message and your greeting. It rests there as long as they like — and they can send the light back.
Six things. Everything else is already written, drawn and timed.
Pick who plays you and who plays them: Noah (beanie & sweater), Maya (scarf & long hair), Eli (glasses & cardigan) or Leah (braid & knit dress).
Partner, mom or dad, son or daughter, brother or sister, friend or family. The eight default reasons and the closing lines change with it.
Apart sends the spark across the city to their window. Together keeps it in one room, where they walk in and the light lands between you.
One short line per candle, shown on the final page under your message. Leave any blank and the story uses the line written for your relationship, so a card made in thirty seconds still reads as chosen.
Two memory photos hang as polaroids beside the two of you on the final page, and a photo of you both above the menorah.
Up to 360 characters, the last thing they read, signed with your name. Choose Happy Hanukkah, Chag Sameach or Chag Urim Sameach.
These are the lines the card uses when you leave a candle blank. Copy any of them, or write your own — one short line per night.
Want wishes for the card’s message too? 66 Hanukkah wishes for family, friends, partners and far away →
Written for the people the candles were always for.
The son in Toronto, the daughter in Sydney, the parents in Tel Aviv. The spark crossing a city is literally the point of the card.
Eight reasons is a love letter with a structure. The partner version opens with “for choosing me, every day.”
A menorah in a window, a dreidel, a blessing — the card speaks their language, and the first-night message is the one they replay.
The first Hanukkah away from home. The “far away” lines were written for exactly this.
A respectful, beautiful Hanukkah greeting that isn't a Christmas card with the colours changed. Send it from the team with everyone's name.
The child version: “for the day you arrived”, “for the little hands that helped light the candles”. Short lines, big ending.
The card opens on a dark room; someone walks in carrying one lit candle, the only light there is. Their tap sends a spark from the shamash to every candle in turn, and the whole room comes up warm. If they don't tap, the story does it for them a few seconds later.
Eight short lines you wrote — for being there, for making me laugh, for believing in me — one per candle, waiting on the final page under your message. Leave any blank and the story fills it with the line written for your relationship, so a card made in thirty seconds still reads as chosen.
On the eighth night a spark lifts off the flame onto their hand, leaves through the window and crosses a snow-covered city along the stars the candles made — until it reaches a dark window, someone looks up, and their menorah lights by itself.
Pick who plays you and who plays them — Noah, Maya, Eli or Leah — and whether you are in different places or the same home. Together keeps the light in one room, where they walk in and it lands between you.
Two memory photos hang as polaroids on either side of the two of you, and a photo of you both above the menorah. No photos? The final page simply shows the two characters in the light.
On the final page there is a button: send this light back. One tap, and you get a notification that your light reached them. A Hanukkah card that answers — the first of its kind.
One that does more than say Happy Hanukkah. The Light That Found You on MomentoCard is a short animated story: someone walks into a dark room carrying one candle, the recipient taps and all eight catch, then a spark crosses a snowy city and they tap again to light the menorah in the other window; your eight reasons and photos wait on the final page. It is free, needs no account and is shared as a link that opens on any phone.
Eight reasons, three photos, one message, one link. The first candle is theirs to light.
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