So You Think You Know What Hannukuh Is All About?
Interesting stuff from Yid With a Lid:
At Sundown Tuesday Night 12/12 Jews across the world will be lighting the first candle in celebration of the first night of Chanukah. What most people (even Jews) know about Chanukah is either wrong, half the story, or laden with nice legends. Despite what you may have been told, the meaning of the holiday is not “let’s come up with a holiday around Christmas time so Jewish kids have something to do at the end of December (although a liberal Rabbi once unsuccesfully tried to convince me that was true). Neither is the meaning of Hanukkah “lets come up with a holiday with many different English spellings so we can drive the Gentiles crazy.”
Read the whole thing.
At Sundown Tuesday Night 12/12 Jews across the world will be lighting the first candle in celebration of the first night of Chanukah. What most people (even Jews) know about Chanukah is either wrong, half the story, or laden with nice legends. Despite what you may have been told, the meaning of the holiday is not “let’s come up with a holiday around Christmas time so Jewish kids have something to do at the end of December (although a liberal Rabbi once unsuccesfully tried to convince me that was true). Neither is the meaning of Hanukkah “lets come up with a holiday with many different English spellings so we can drive the Gentiles crazy.”
Read the whole thing.
Labels: Jewish holy days
posted by jope @ December 12, 2017
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