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Would we Jews be celebrating Khanookah, if there were no Christmas
and no Presents for this day? If we would not. Then that's a wonderful reason for being grateful for
Christmas. Since the story of Khanookah is in the Apochrypha and was
forbidden reading to Jews (except Rabbis of course). In fact, it IS
because of Khanookah that Jews can now read the Apochrypha and even
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-Chanukah has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas. Christmas
is the day of Jesus'
birth, while Chanukah was a struggle between the Jews and the Greeks. 2) No
miracle or special occasion needed for the birth of Jesus, other than a
reminder by Christians, while Chanukah is the celebration of the miracles
that unfolded by a rag tag group of Jewish fighters who defeated a
numerically superior enemy and the miracle of a day's worth of oil lasting
eight days.
Reason being is that the leaders of the fight against the Greeks were
priests. Once defeated, the priests assumed command, and that was a major
wrong doing as there was supposed to be a balance of power between the
Jewish clergy and the Jewish royalty. Once mixed, the royalty and
priesthood took a turn for the worse. -Christians wouldn't be celebrating Christmas if there were no Hanukkah. - I think they would have celebrated Christmas, since they
seem to have gotten it from the Roman Kalenda and Saturnalia, but
they might have done it on a different date than 25th of the first
winter month (Kislev roughly corresponds to December). I've got to
wonder, though, what the relation between Roman Saturnalia and
Chanukah really is, since they do seem to be held at the same
time, for 8 days following the 25th of the first winter month (the
English footnote in Soncino says that the Romans celebrated the
equinox on the 25th, and the New Year on the 17th December). |
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