One of the well-known questions raised by the Beit Yosef is:
Why do we celebrate Chanukah for eight days? After all, the oil in the flask was only enough for one day, so the miracle seemingly lasted only seven days. If so, why eight?

I once heard a deep and meaningful explanation. We often assume that when something works “naturally,” there is no miracle involved. If there is oil, of course it will burn.
But the message of Chanukah teaches us the opposite: nature itself is a miracle.

There is no such thing as nature operating on its own. For the Jewish people, what we call “nature” is also an expression of God’s will. There is personal Divine providence over every individual, and God runs the world in a way that things unfold through natural processes — but their source is always Him.

As the Ramban teaches, a person has no share in the Torah of Moshe Rabbeinu unless he believes that all of his experiences are miracles, and that there is no true “nature” or randomness in the world. Every event that happens to a Jew, even if it appears completely natural, is in fact a miracle directed by God.

This is why we celebrate eight days of Chanukah:
not only for the seven days when the oil burned beyond what was expected, but also for the first day — for the very fact that the oil burned at all. That, too, is a miracle.
The simple fact that things work, that they succeed, that life flows as it should — that itself is worthy of gratitude and celebration.

This is the deeper message of Chanukah: to learn to see God’s hand not only in the extraordinary and miraculous, but also in the everyday, in what seems ordinary and taken for granted.

May we truly merit to see God’s hand in everything that happens in our lives, and to give thanks for every miracle — both great and small.