An Extraordinary Chanukah, Indeed

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Chanukah, the joyous Jewish holiday, begins tonight. And this year 5778 is an historical one, in light of President Trump’s righteous recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish homeland.

Wishing my readers and supporters a happy, happy Chanukah. I, for one, will be celebrating like it’s 1999. I hope you’ll join us in the celebration of life, love, and the triumph of the good over evil, light over darkness – a celebration of the Jewish fight for freedom in 165 B.C.  Still we live to fight another day, thousands of years later. Same fight.

It’s the festival of lights.

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Chanukah is the Jewish eight-day, wintertime “festival of lights,” celebrated with a nightly menorah lighting, special prayers and fried foods. The Hebrew word Chanukah means “dedication,” and is thus named because it celebrates the re-dedication of the Holy Temple.

The Holy Jewish Temple that the Islamic world and their voluntary captives in the international community work to deny the Jewish people of.

In the second century BCE, the Holy Land was ruled by the Seleucids (Syrian-Greeks), who tried to force the people of Israel to accept Greek culture and beliefs instead of mitzvah observance and belief in G‑d. Against all odds, a small band of faithful Jews, led by Judah the Maccabee, defeated one of the mightiest armies on earth, drove the Greeks from the land, reclaimed the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and rededicated it to the service of G‑d.

When they sought to light the Temple’s Menorah (the seven-branched candelabrum), they found only a single cruse of olive oil that had escaped contamination by the Greeks. Miraculously, they lit the menorah and the one-day supply of oil lasted for eight days, until new oil could be prepared under conditions of ritual purity.

To commemorate and publicize these miracles, the sages instituted the festival of Chanukah. (Chabad)

Baruch HaShem!

Something lovely from the Hanukkah famous a cappella group, the Maccabeats.

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Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Merry Chanukah.

garry pollackD
garry pollack
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

gevalt!!!

Achmed
Achmed
6 years ago

The age old question: When lighting the chanukiyah, do you use a new/fresh shamash, each night … or the same for the full nights of celebration?
A close friend, once told me that the custom of reusing the shamash, had to do with times of poverty, among the Jews, and in some households it remained. While you’re actually supposed to use a new shamash for each night. However, that is obviously not a scholarly answer. So, what’s the proper way?

RCCA
RCCA
6 years ago
Reply to  Achmed

A new shamash is used every night. From the Chabad website: Though the shamash’s primary function has been served once the candles have been lit, we don’t extinguish the shamash. Instead, we set it in its place adjacent to the other lights, ready to “serve” in case a candle blows out. Another reason why we leave the shamash lit is because it is forbidden to use the Chanukah lights for any practical reason. This way, if a candle is needed, the shamash is available for use, preserving the sanctity of the mitzvah lights. Happy Chanukah!

Achmed
Achmed
6 years ago
Reply to  RCCA

Thank you. If oil is used .. what’s the deal, then?

mackykam
mackykam
6 years ago
Reply to  Achmed

use a flashlight, LOL!

rsklaroff
rsklaroff
6 years ago

The Nite before Hanukkah?

T’was the night before Chanukah, boychicks and maidels
Not a sound could be heard, not even the draidels.
The Menorah was set on the chimney, alight
In the kitchen the Bubba hut gechapt a bite.
Salami, pastrami, a glassala tay
And zayerah pickles with bagels, oh vay!
Gezunt and geschmack, the kinderlach felt
While dreaming of tagelach and Chanukah gelt.

The clock on the mantelpiece away was tickin’
And Bubba was serving a schtikala chicken.
A tumult arose like a thousand brauches,
Santa had fallen and broken his tuches.
I put on my slippers, eins, tsvay, drei,
While Bubba was now on the herring and rye.
I grabbed for my bathrobe and buttoned my gotkes
While Bubba was busy devouring the latkes.

To the window I ran and to my surprise
A little red yarmulke greeted my eyes.
Then he got to the door and saw the Menorah,
“Yiddishe kinder,” he said, “Kenahora.
I thought I was in a goyisha hoise,
But as long as I’m here, I’ll leave a few toys.”

With much geshray, I asked, “Du bist a Yid?”
“Avada, mien numen is Schloimay Claus, kid.”
“Come into the kitchen, I’ll get you a dish,
A guppell, a schtickala fish.”
With smacks of delight, he started his fressen,
Chopped liver, knaidlach and kreplah gagessen.
Along with his meal, he had a few schnapps,
When it came to eating, this boy was the tops.

He asked for some knishes with pepper and salt,
But they were so hot, he yelled “Oy Gevalt.”
Unbuttoning his haizen, he rose from the tish,
And said, “Your Kosher essen is simply delish.”
As he went to the door, he said “I’ll see you later,
I’ll be back next Pesach, in time for the Sedar.”

More rapid than eagles his prancers they came,
As he whistled and shouted and called them by name:
Now Izzy, now Morris, now Yitzak, now Sammy,
Now Irving and Maxie, and Moishe and Mannie.”
He gave a geshray as he drove out of sight:
“Gooten Yomtov to all, and to all a good night.”
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Very Rough Translations of yiddish:
zeckel= bag
maidlach = girl
peckel = coin
meichel = meal
beichel = stomach
kinder = children
balbusta = lady of the house (usually a very nice description)
mezzuzah = Commandments inside a small oblong ornament attached to right side of the door jam
zeit = life
nosh = snack
stuffed derma = cow intestines
flanken = flank steak
blintzes = rolled like a crepe, but stuffed full with fruit & cottage cheese (or something similar)
bissel = a little piece
lox = smoked salmon (fish)
bialy = kind of roll, sold with bagels
chaleh = bread
gatkes = guts
latkes = potato pancakes
dreidel = special spinning top, with hebrew letters on the side, used for a game at Chanukah
menorah = candle holder for symbolic Chanukah candle lighting
mazel = luck
gelt = coins
schnorrer: cheapskate, typically used to descibe someone who always takes, but never gives anything back

canuck7
canuck7
6 years ago

Chag Sameach!

al Kidya
al Kidya
6 years ago

Happy Chanukah, Pamela and to all my Jewish compatriots!

Eyal
Eyal
6 years ago

!חג שמח פמלה
You’re a hero and an inspiration for so many people!

garry pollackD
garry pollack
6 years ago

also 100 yrs since allenby liberated it from the turks & it is a yoval/jubilee yr.

Kenneth Finlayson
Kenneth Finlayson
6 years ago

G-d bless Pamela for her role in our fight for freedom.
Happy Chanukah.

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