I used to celebrate Hanukkah, for a while. I don't light candles anymore, but if I'm somewhere where people do light candles, I enjoy the ceremony.
Structured ceremonial observance of anything kinda ruins a holiday for me. I mostly just celebrate not having to work by not working.
Hanukkah is not about strict ceremonial observance, like other religious holidays. It's one of the two holidays that require people to share with complete strangers. The other is Sukkot. Imagine bankers at a small local branch of a bank stop working half an hour before closure and mingle with their customers, singing together as a candle is lit in a big hanukkiah in the lobby. Then we all ate jam-filled doughnuts. It was incredibly nice, even though I, and everybody else, knew that business will resume shortly as usual. I love Hanukkah.
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Good question..... I think about Hanukkah a lot and have read quite a bit about it but until I am living closer to a synagogue it would be challenging to get more so into the celebration. A buddy of mine just sent me an interesting article on Hanukkah.... https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/20...-they-didnt-teach-you-hebrew-frontpagemagcom/ The History of Hanukkah They Didn't Teach You in Hebrew School Delving into the history of Hanukkah to understand the deeper meaning of the holiday.
Both are German, more or less! jam-filled doughnuts (sufganiyah) = Berliner in German Latkes = Kartoffelpuffer mit Apfelmus in German
@ Advent Crown http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php?threads/colours-of-the-candles-of-the-advent-crown.605978/ Lighting the Advent Crown is similar to lighting the Menorah.
The only thing I know about Hanukkah was when I was in elementary school and there was a Jewish boy and our class actually named Shamas. And I guess he kind of felt like he was being left out right around the holidays cuz the celebration was giving up and she went on to talk to us about Hanukkah and the Jewish meeting and actually what this particular boys name meant. Come to find out the teacher actually had a Jewish sister-in-law or something those she got to learn a lot more about it. But thanks everyone for sharing I would like to learn more.
And that is the miracle of Hanukkah: More about it: https://www.frontpagemag.com/history-hanukkah-they-didnt-teach-you-hebrew-frontpagemagcom/
How to say Happy Hanukkah in Hebrew https://www.thesaurus.com/e/ways-to-say/hanukkah-greetings/ chag sameach, then!