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girlactionfigure:
“Eighty five years ago, after the sun set, my grandmother took out her camera before lighting the candles of Chag Chanuka and took a picture of her Chanukia facing a Nazi flag. I have the original picture and menorah. On the back of this picture my grandmother wrote in German, “Judea will live forever, thus respond the lights.” I have donated the menorah to Yad Vashem under one condition; Yad Vashem will only have it for 51 weeks in the year. Every year, during the week of Chanuka, I take the menorah that is in this box and re-light my grandmother’s Chanukia.“ Beezrat Hashem the light of this Chanuka will be lit for all the years to come. Chanuka Sameach!
“Juda verrecke”
die Fahne spricht
“Juda lebt ewig”
erwidert das Licht”
“Death to Judah”
So the flag says
“Judah will live forever”
So the light answers
humansoftherova
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girlactionfigure:
“Eighty five years ago, after the sun set, my grandmother took out her camera before lighting the candles of Chag Chanuka and took a picture of her Chanukia facing a Nazi flag. I have the original picture and menorah. On the back of this picture my grandmother wrote in German, “Judea will live forever, thus respond the lights.” I have donated the menorah to Yad Vashem under one condition; Yad Vashem will only have it for 51 weeks in the year. Every year, during the week of Chanuka, I take the menorah that is in this box and re-light my grandmother’s Chanukia.“ Beezrat Hashem the light of this Chanuka will be lit for all the years to come. Chanuka Sameach!
“Juda verrecke”
die Fahne spricht
“Juda lebt ewig”
erwidert das Licht”
“Death to Judah”
So the flag says
“Judah will live forever”
So the light answers
humansoftherova
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son-of-solomon:
Hanukkah has been largely depoliticized, first through the invention of the feel-good myth of the oil that lasted for eight days, and now via our consumerist interpretation of Hanukkah as Christmas’ Jewish cousin. But Hanukkah is actually the celebration of an uprising. It honors the Maccabees, the faction that recaptured the Temple in 165 BCE and expelled the Selucid Empire from Judea. Therefore this holiday is a symbol of indigenous liberation, and is best observed in solidarity with all peoples resisting occupation. Happy Hanukkah!
son-of-solomon:
Hanukkah has been largely depoliticized, first through the invention of the feel-good myth of the oil that lasted for eight days, and now via our consumerist interpretation of Hanukkah as Christmas’ Jewish cousin. But Hanukkah is actually the celebration of an uprising. It honors the Maccabees, the faction that recaptured the Temple in 165 BCE and expelled the Selucid Empire from Judea. Therefore this holiday is a symbol of indigenous liberation, and is best observed in solidarity with all peoples resisting occupation. Happy Hanukkah!
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eligeek:
as a Jew i can confirm this is what we do on hanuka just with more oil
always
@anxietywithsprinkles
theultravioletcatastrophe:
theotherwesley:
eligeek:
as a Jew i can confirm this is what we do on hanuka just with more oil
always
@anxietywithsprinkles
gotochelm: hiddurmitzvah: ún. evolúció
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gotochelm:
hiddurmitzvah:
ún. evolúció
“We commemorate this miracle by lighting a menorah, a nine-branched candelabrum: one candle for each day of Hanukkah, plus the ninth shammes, or helper candle, that is used to light the others. (To conceptualize this in an Extremely Reform way, think of each of the eight candles as reindeer—Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen—with Rudolph as the shammes.) … To save time, many Extremely Reform Jews celebrate all eight days of Hanukkah on one day, December 25, using a pine tree instead of a menorah.”
— David M. Bader, How to Be an Extremely Reform Jew
gotochelm:
hiddurmitzvah:
ún. evolúció
“We commemorate this miracle by lighting a menorah, a nine-branched candelabrum: one candle for each day of Hanukkah, plus the ninth shammes, or helper candle, that is used to light the others. (To conceptualize this in an Extremely Reform way, think of each of the eight candles as reindeer—Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen—with Rudolph as the shammes.) … To save time, many Extremely Reform Jews celebrate all eight days of Hanukkah on one day, December 25, using a pine tree instead of a menorah.”
— David M. Bader, How to Be an Extremely Reform Jew
