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Anonymous ID: dd3a8d Dec. 18, 2022, 12:34 p.m. No.17977421   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Remaking Hanukkah in the image of Christmas

Diane Ashton, an American religious historian, has traced the history of Hanukkah in the US and described how Jews have transformed Hanukkah in the past two centuries to reflect the evolving traditions of Christmas.

 

Inspired by children’s Christmas events in churches, American rabbis began introducing special Hanukkah celebrations for children at synagogues in the 19th century. They would tell the story of Hanukkah, light candles, sing hymns and hand out sweets. This was a way to entice children to attend synagogues, which otherwise offered little of interest to them.

 

Over time, Hanukkah became one of the only times of the year that many Jewish families engaged with Jewish tradition.

 

Read more: How Hanukkah came to America

 

In the early 20th century, with the commercialisation of Christmas well under way, more changes occurred. Gift-giving was never a feature of Hanukkah historically, but new Jewish immigrants from Europe began buying presents for their children as a way of signifying their economic success in the new world.

 

In more recent years, the public display of menorahs has also been promoted by Chabad, the Orthodox Jewish Hasidic movement that aims to bring Jews closer to their own religion.

https://theconversation.com/the-story-of-hanukkah-how-a-minor-jewish-holiday-was-remade-in-the-image-of-christmas-127620

Anonymous ID: dd3a8d Dec. 18, 2022, 12:38 p.m. No.17977439   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7509

The most detailed accounts of the story of Hanukkah are recorded in First and Second Maccabees, historical books that describe the military and political events leading up to and following the Maccabean revolt. They are not included in the Hebrew Bible, but are part of the Catholic biblical canon.

 

According to First Maccabees,

 

lawless men came forth from Israel, and misled many, saying, ‘Let us go and make a covenant with the Gentiles round about us’. … [T]hey built a gymnasium in Jerusalem, according to Gentile custom, and removed the marks of circumcision, and abandoned the holy covenant. They joined with the Gentiles and sold themselves to do evil.

 

These “lawless men” were not the Seleucid rulers, but Jews who wanted to integrate aspects of Greek (Hellenistic) culture with Jewish tradition.

 

Hellenistic culture was based on the Greek language, literature, art and philosophy, as well as the distinctively Greek form of social and political organisation, the polis. But Hellenistic culture also involved the worship of Greek gods and social customs, such as athletic contests, that some considered incompatible with Jewish tradition.

 

These Hellenising Jews were the targets of the Maccabees’ vengeful attacks as much as the Seleucid Greek regime itself. As First Maccabees relates:

 

They organised an army, and struck down sinners in their anger and lawless men in their wrath; the survivors fled to the Gentiles for safety.

 

In this light, the Maccabees were not heroic liberators and defenders of religious freedom. Rather, they could be viewed as intolerant religious zealots, intent on stamping out any attempt to “modernise” Jewish tradition.

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A minor holiday that the Jews turned into a major holiday to compete with the celebration of Christ.

 

My house we call that anti-Christ.

Anonymous ID: dd3a8d Dec. 18, 2022, 1 p.m. No.17977535   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7560 >>7609 >>7658

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Didn't Q post a pic of two houses with flags sitting right next to the Maccabees building. There is significance there. I'd suggest they are part of the infiltrators.

 

You see, the Maccabees isn't even in the bible. But the fucking Catholics (infiltrated by Jews) decided to include the BS

 

So someone fuckng cares.