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128.14/ Some of my #Chanukah hot-takes now that this Bird Site is on rails towards a trainwreck:
1) Dreidel is a boring game
2) Latkes are about as tasty as flat potato kugel
3) Sufganiyot are bad donuts
4) The Hasmonean kings were pretty terrible.
1) Dreidel is a boring game
2) Latkes are about as tasty as flat potato kugel
3) Sufganiyot are bad donuts
4) The Hasmonean kings were pretty terrible.
128.14b/ Two more #ChanukahHotTakes
5) Dairy "gelt" aren't worth it (but pareve is always useful)
6) It's not a minor holiday. Tu B'Av - mentioned in the Gemara - is "minor." #Hanukkah has full Hallel, Al Ha-Nisim, Torah reading, active mitzvot (neirot), etc. It's high Rabbinic.
5) Dairy "gelt" aren't worth it (but pareve is always useful)
6) It's not a minor holiday. Tu B'Av - mentioned in the Gemara - is "minor." #Hanukkah has full Hallel, Al Ha-Nisim, Torah reading, active mitzvot (neirot), etc. It's high Rabbinic.
128.14c/ An interchange about my #ChanukahHotSoHotTakes:
My response
& @DanSchwarcz's reply
(My favorite latkes, by the way, are pictured below)
My response
& @DanSchwarcz's reply
(My favorite latkes, by the way, are pictured below)
128.01/ Week one-hundred and twenty-eight, December 24-30, 2022, thread begins here.
Week 127 below.
Week 127 below.
128.02/ Fun way to start a week, with a Scorigami!
127.01/ Week one-hundred and twenty-seven, December 17-23, 2022, thread begins here.
Week 126 below.
Week 126 below.
127.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight pur on hold for a week because we're going to a lecture by Dean Rachel Friedman of Drisha.
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127.03/ Watching the #WorldCup - because the championship game in any sport is worth watching - and choosing to support ARG because I have cousins there. Whenever I see a header I think of this C&H:
Let's talk about cheese latkes, #Chanukah, and powerful women ✊
Cheese latkes are a traditional Ashkenazi #Hanukkah dish that combines two holiday foods, oil and cheese.
While the cheese might be less known, it has IMO a far cooler story: Judith.
(See @TheRaDR thread below).
Cheese latkes are a traditional Ashkenazi #Hanukkah dish that combines two holiday foods, oil and cheese.
While the cheese might be less known, it has IMO a far cooler story: Judith.
(See @TheRaDR thread below).
The story of Judith, a mythological tale from the Book of Judith, a book of the Biblical Apocrypha (my favorite part of the Bible, in some ways), is the story of a Jewish woman heroine.
A woman who uses her power to sacrifice, seduce, help her community, and destroy patriarchy >
A woman who uses her power to sacrifice, seduce, help her community, and destroy patriarchy >
> literally.
She befriends an evil general who is out to kill - and rape.
Serves him some salty cheese 🧀
He gets thirsty.
She offers him wine to quench his sleep 🍷
He gets drunk, the drunkest he has ever been.
She cuts his head off.
And places it HER FOOD BAG!
She befriends an evil general who is out to kill - and rape.
Serves him some salty cheese 🧀
He gets thirsty.
She offers him wine to quench his sleep 🍷
He gets drunk, the drunkest he has ever been.
She cuts his head off.
And places it HER FOOD BAG!
I hate all the "#Chanukah is just a minor holiday" and "historically #Hanukkah wasn't a big deal holiday" talk.
Hasidic Jews, and others following Kabbalistic teachings, have made a huge deal out of it for centuries.
Big enough to call it (Day 8) a High Holidays extension!
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Hasidic Jews, and others following Kabbalistic teachings, have made a huge deal out of it for centuries.
Big enough to call it (Day 8) a High Holidays extension!
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I get that we hate the comparisons to Kratzmach (the Yiddish nickname for Christmas), and the commercialization of #Hanukka. Yes, it's not one of the 3 biblical festivals, but after that, it's undoubtedly the biggest holiday - albeit in many ways even bigger.
Some details:
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Some details:
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- #Chanukah is seen as in some ways even higher than "big" holidays, exactly because it's weekdays. It makes it's spiritual/cultural significance even better.
- the food: latkes, donuts, oil food, festive meals, etc. predate commercialization.
- gifts, in form of money >
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- the food: latkes, donuts, oil food, festive meals, etc. predate commercialization.
- gifts, in form of money >
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The Arch of Titus in Rome was erected in 82 CE to celebrate Roman Emperor Titus' victory over the Jews in Judea, including the siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE. The captive Jews are shown carrying sacred Temple vessels, including the golden menorah, away from Jerusalem to Rome.
In the 16th century Pope Paul IV forced Rome's Jews to recite an annual oath of submission to Christendom while standing under the arch. For centuries thereafter, Jews refused to walk underneath the arch.
In honour of #Chanukah, this is a THREAD with some of the most powerful Chanukah images (c/- @yadvashem) from 'Before, During and After the Holocaust'.
Starting with this, perhaps most powerful one: Kiel, Germany (1932)
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Starting with this, perhaps most powerful one: Kiel, Germany (1932)
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It’s doughnut time!*
First night of the Jewish festival@of #Chanukah is tonight
Chanukah is a festival of freedom so appropriate it starts on #HumanRightsDay this year
*Doughnuts pictured at Daniels in Temple Fortune
First night of the Jewish festival@of #Chanukah is tonight
Chanukah is a festival of freedom so appropriate it starts on #HumanRightsDay this year
*Doughnuts pictured at Daniels in Temple Fortune
I queued for 20 minutes for those by the way
Don’t @ me about the coffee icing
21.01/ Continuing my thread project; week 21: Dec 6-11, 2020
Week 20 here
Week 20 here
21.02/ Dad achievement unlocked: my thermostat is so low we need to wear sweaters in the house.
Took years to reach this level, I have so many people to thank, starting with my own father (shlit"a)...
Took years to reach this level, I have so many people to thank, starting with my own father (shlit"a)...
21.03/ This is a great point below.
BTW, for me the only way boys have been 'easier' to raise than girls is that I have more first-hand experience (e.g. put your glasses in your kippah by the bedside to protect from breakage). That's it.
BTW, for me the only way boys have been 'easier' to raise than girls is that I have more first-hand experience (e.g. put your glasses in your kippah by the bedside to protect from breakage). That's it.
Here is a short thread as we light the candles for the eighth and final night of #Chanukah 🕎 called 'To light another light'. Chanukah sameach! 🥳
There’s a fascinating argument in the Talmud. Can you take one Chanukah light to light another? Usually, of course, we take an extra light, the shamash, and use it to light all the candles.
But suppose we don’t have one. Can we light the first candle and then use it to light the others?
Here is a short thread as we light the candles for the seventh night (tomorrow on Motzei #Shabbat) of #Chanukah 🕎 called 'Inside / outside'. Chanukah sameach! 🥳
There is more than one command in Judaism to light lights. There are three. There are the Shabbat candles. There is the havdalah candle. And there are the Chanukah candles.
The difference between them is that Shabbat candles represent shalom bayit, peace in the home. They are lit indoors. They are, if you like, Judaism’s inner light, the light of the sanctity of marriage and the holiness of home.
Here is a short thread as we light the candles for the sixth night of #Chanukah 🕎 called 'The light of war and the lights of peace'. Chanukah sameach! 🥳
There is a law about Chanukah I find moving and profound. Maimonides writes that ‘the command of Chanukah lights is very precious. One who lacks the money to buy lights should sell something, or if necessary borrow, so as to be able to fulfil the mitzvah.’
The question then arises, What if, on Friday afternoon, you find yourself with only one candle? What do you light it as — a Shabbat candle or a Chanukah one? It can’t be both.
Here is a short thread as we light the candles for the fifth night of #Chanukah 🕎 called 'The third miracle'. Chanukah sameach! 🥳
We all know the miracles of Chanukah, the military victory of the Maccabees against the Greeks, and the miracle of the oil that should have lasted one day but stayed burning for eight.
But there was a third miracle not many people know about. It took place several centuries later.
Here is a short thread as we light the candles for the fourth night of #Chanukah 🕎 called 'The first clash of civilisations'. Chanukah sameach! 🥳
One of the key phrases of our time is the clash of civilisations. And Chanukah is about one of the first great clashes of civilisation, between the Greeks and Jews of antiquity, Athens and Jerusalem.
The ancient Greeks produced one of the most remarkable civilisations of all time: philosophers like Plato & Aristotle, historians like Herodotus & Thucydides, dramatists like Sophocles & Aeschylus. They produced art & architecture of a beauty that has never been surpassed.
Here is a short thread as we light the candles for the third night of #Chanukah 🕎 called 'Chanukah in our time'. Chanukah sameach! 🥳
Back in 1991 I lit Chanukah candles with Mikhail Gorbachev, who had, until earlier that year, been president of the Soviet Union. For seventy years the practice of Judaism had been effectively banned in communist Russia.
It was one of the two great assaults on our people and faith in the twentieth century. The Germans sought to kill Jews; the Russians tried to kill Judaism. Under Stalin the assault became brutal.
Here is a short thread as we light the candles for the second night of #Chanukah 🕎 called 'The light of the spirit never dies'. Chanukah sameach! 🥳
There’s an interesting question the commentators ask about Chanukah. For eight days we light lights, and each night we make the blessing over miracles: she-asah nissim la-avotenu.
But what was the miracle of the first night? The light that should have lasted one day lasted eight. But that means there was something miraculous about days 2 to 8; but nothing miraculous about the first day.
listening to chanukah music all morning filled me with joy and pride. it bloomed a few parts of me that wilted a bit while researching the most vicious of antisemites all year. proud to be a yid always & forever
anyway its my favorite anti-imperialist guerilla warfare holiday about minority religious freedom that has jelly donuts as a holiday food #chanukah
song thread here, full cheesy judaica
Here is a short thread as we light the candles for the first night of #Chanukah 🕎 called 'Inspired by faith, we can change the world'. Chanukah sameach! 🥳
22 centuries ago, when Israel was under the rule of the empire of Alexander the Great, one particular leader, Antiochus IV, decided to force the pace of Hellenisation, forbidding Jews to practice their religion and setting up in the Temple in Jerusalem a statue of Zeus Olympus.
This was too much to bear, and a group of Jews, the Maccabees, fought for their religious freedom, winning a stunning victory against the most powerful army of the ancient world.
There is more than one command in #Judaism to light lights. There are three. There are the #Shabbat candles. There is the havdalah candle. And there are the #Chanukah candles.
The difference between them is that Shabbat candles represent shalom bayit, peace in the home. They are lit indoors. They are, if you like, Judaism’s inner light, the light of the sanctity of marriage and the holiness of home.
The Chanukah candles used to be lit outside — outside the front door.
In honour of the Jewish holiday of #Chanukah now, I'm going to make a THREAD here with some powerful Chanukah images (c/- @yadvashem) from 'Before, During and After the #Holocaust'.
Starting with this, perhaps most powerful one: Kiel, Germany (1932)
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Starting with this, perhaps most powerful one: Kiel, Germany (1932)
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(1) Here's my latest Team Trump #PhotosThread.📸🦁🇺🇸
The previous one ran from Dec 8 to 18:
Info & links to 12 other photos threads since June 2017: godlessnz.wordpress.com/2017/10/27/lin… … …
Enjoy! RT to help #MAGA
The previous one ran from Dec 8 to 18:
Info & links to 12 other photos threads since June 2017: godlessnz.wordpress.com/2017/10/27/lin… … …
Enjoy! RT to help #MAGA
(2) The President started the week with a landmark National Security Strategy speech in Washington, DC. #PeaceThroughStrength #AmericaFirst
(3) Oh noes! He held the glass with both hands again! Probably because he unconsciously worries about spilling some, like I do. We're neat freaks and germaphobes, stop judging us!😎
