Happy Hanukkah!

For some revisionists and Muslim anti Israel types this may be their first Hanukkah so please, when lighting and using the multi armed candles do use caution and, remember, please don't drink and drive as you celebrate with your friends!

 

Jews are celebrating the killing of their Hellenized compatriots , fascinating.
With full knowledge that Antioxos was a retard i 'd say that if the other party had won Jews would have a much better time for the last 1800 years.

 

Happy Hanukkah !

And ease up on the Doughnuts.....

 

Israelis celebrate with lights and doughnuts, Arabs celebrate darkness ( with blood on top ).

 

Is Hannukah a secular or religious holiday?

 

Happy Hanukkah to you.

 

It is a minor religious holiday that commemorates the defeat of the Syrian greeks who tried to stop Jewish religious practice and had many Jewish supporters. The story is that when the Maccabees, who fought for the religious rights, entered the Temple they rededicated an had a belated Sukkot (the last holiday that was missed because of the Syrian Greeks being in control of the Temple) and thus 8 days. Much later the Rabbis of the Talmud wrote a story of a vial of oil being found that lasted for 8 days because the Maccabees turned out to be not such a cool thing for Judaism in the long run.

 

Good advice...Somebody ought to have told Sharon that....Whoops, too late....Doh!

 

Thanks for helping this to be an educational site. Most places just degenerate into senseless violence.

 

thank you

 

Sharon ( Former Israeli P.M ) was ponished by God ( Allah !! ) because he deported Israelis from their homes near Gaza.
Allah takes care of Muslims also because they do not listem to him !!

 

Well, why do they prohibit the display of Christian symbols in the USA, and why do they display a huge Menorah in the front of the White House?




Most Americans are not Jews, they are Christians, but their religious symbols are banned, you cannot display a huge cross in front of the White House, but you can display a huge Menorah, which is a religious symbol of Jews (about 2% of American population).

Why do Jews have such a big privilege in the USA?

On the one hand they fight Christian religious symbols, they even try to outlaw the word "Christmas". But on the other hand they push their own religious symbols down the throat of 98% of non-Jews in the USA:

What is with these 98% of Americans?

Are they stupid morons that cannot stand up for their rights?

America was created by White Christians, who were the Founding Fathers, but today they are reduced to a pathetic dispossessed majority, that will soon become a minority in their own country.

 

Chanukah if it doesn't spray, you aren't saying it right only became popular in the West as an alternative holiday to Christmas.
Otherwise this holiday would come and go with hardly any notice, or sales.

BTW Christmas was not celebrated in the early years of the United States of America.
Congress met on December 25.
America's reigning Christians at that time believed that Christmas was not in the Bible and therefore was not worthy of a celebration.

So here is to two minor holidays becoming a merchant's dream



Moi

No
Never Forget​

 

Darn it, nobody does that better than we do!

 

Chanukah jumped from Christianity into Judaism

Two Truths About Hanukkah



There are two things about Hanukkah that we can be absolutely certain about so I wish to begin with these first of all:


1. Hanukkah was created by the Jews of the second century B.C. to meet what they perceived to be the religious needs of the time; and

2. The story of the miraculous cruise of oil that lasted eight days is pure fiction


The Origins of Hanukkah



One of the problems we have in attempting to arrive at exact knowledge regarding the origin of this festival is that the early sources from which we acquire all our information themselves disagree, and thus call into question one another's credibility. The four primary sources are 1 Maccabees 2, 2 Maccabees 3, Josephus 4 and the Talmud 5. From a critical point-of-view, we have no sure source of information on the origin of Hanukkah and scholars do not dispute this. Hanukkah was instituted by Judah Maccabee and his brothers, along with the elders of the congregation of Israel, on Kislev 25 in the year 165 B.C. to celebrate the dedication of the altar and purification of the Temple in Jerusalem. Three years earlier, on that very day, a pagan altar had been set up in the Temple by Antiochus Epiphanes upon which sacrifices were offered to the pagan idol Zeus Olympius.



A Late Sukkot but No Miracle



The sources give conflicting accounts of the circumstances surrounding the first Hanukkah. Did a miracle occur, and is the commemoration of this miracle the reason for lighting the eight lamps of the extended Menorah? 6 The two sources acknowledged by scholars as the most reliable, 1 Maccabees and Josephus, say nothing of a miracle, which is a little odd if a miracle actually took place. 1 Maccabees simply says: "They celebrated the dedication of the altar for eight days" (1 Macc.4:56). If there was no miracle, why did they celebrate for eight days? Because Hanukkah was a late Sukkot 7 which, as you know, lasts eight days, including Shemini Atseret or the 'Last Great Day'. Why was a late Sukkot being celebrated? Because under the conditions which had prevailed before, the celebration of Sukkot was illegal and therefore impossible.



Josephus, 2 Maccabees and the Talmud



Josephus, a reliable historian, does not even mention the name 'Hanukkah', calling this festival simply 'Lights'. The lights, he says, are symbolic of the freedom of worship obtained by the Jews because their liberty came unexpectedly, like a sudden light (Antiquities XII; 7). Neither does the third source, 2 Maccabees, say anything of a miracle in connection with Hanukkah, although mention is made of miracles having occurred in earlier times among the Jews (2 Macc.10:1-7; 1:18ff; 2:1ff). Thus the familiar miracle story of Hanukkah, a small cruise of consecrated oil sufficient for one day lasting eight days, appears only in the Talmudic sources.



A Pagan Winter Solstice Festival



There are many who believe that Hanukkah was created as a Jewish response to pagan festivals held at the same time. Julian Morgenstern advanced the theory that a pagan festival celebrating the winter solstice, around 22 December, existed before Hanukkah and contributed to its ritual. The solstice, he notes, is observed in many parts of .....................


Read ;http://www.nccg.org/mlt/sermons/3_234.html

BUT, do not entertain any information which runs contrary to whatever your Jewish thought controllers told you. G-d forbid .
Ta-ta .......