What can I take from the hannaka festival to encoporate in to the winter holidays along with santa ect.?
Question by Ashton G: What can I take from the hannaka festival to encoporate in to the winter holidays along with santa ect.?
I call it christmas I have a tree and a big celebratary feast but maybee the jewish have ideas that the christians and pagans don’t Can anyone elighten me?
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Answer by iSrAeLiTiGeR
hannukah has nothing to do with xmas- it is a holiday to celebrate a miracle that GOD made happen which was that after out temple was destroyed, GOD made oil last for 8 days instead of one so thats why we light a menora and we add one candle every day to remind us of the miracle.
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Well, Hanukkah and Christmas are two different holidays that mean two very different things to the people who celebrate them. So incorporating Hanukkah traditions into your Christmas celebration would not make a lot of sense.
I’d say, if you celebrate Christmas, just stick with that.
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Light 8 candles and place them near you windown.
http://www.christmasgifts.net
Maybe put a menorah in the window but with all the candles lit instead of one night at a time. Maybe in that way you could celebrate the original meaning of the season, the celebration of the return of light to world after the Winter Solstice, which is the longest night of the world. It’s all about the light!
Well you have avery interesting point here! but did you ever ask yourself this:
Where did Christmas came from?
Here is the info for this!