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Mariposa

Mariposa

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No, not Jewish, simply observant of a holiday that has been neglected in this forum so far!

Who is excited about 8 crazy nights? What are your experiences with Hanukkah?
 
i have no experience of the hanukkah but i will celebrate it as best i can
 
I celebrate the solstice for my spirituality and lifestyle. where's the solstice love??
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGC0ga4ifUE

Only slightly related, but hey, whatever.... It's true though, chinese restaurants do big business in newton mass on christmas :)

other than the many way to spell its name, the best thing about this holidaze?

pot latkes!!! :D
 
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YES for pot latkes!

If you have some leftover mashed potatoes this holiday season, however you celebrate, they make amazing latkes. I haven't tried it with cannabutter yet, but that's only temporary. :)
 
I celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas with my family, best of both worlds! :)
 
Put on your Yamakuah, its time for Chanukah! Now smoke your MariwannaKuah

Just FYI there is a HUGE difference between hating on Jews and hating on Israel FYI. The problem now a days is people dont recognize that difference. I hope you do. Not every Jew is in support of Israeli policies.


Such as myself. I'm a quarter jewish, and my grandmother is jewish. I technically could claim to be full a jew. But I was raised Catholic/Methodist (fallen from both), so I dont celebrate Driedel day. Also in an area that has more jews than anything else. My specific town is over 50% jewish, and the rest of Westchester/NYC is up there in %. So growing up I got to experience it with parts of my family, other friends and such. Definitely had way more jewish friends growing up.

Jews definitely have some good food round this time of year. They also know how to party just as hard as the Christians.

Chanukah actually became way bigger than it should be b/c of all the commercialism. Its not even that important in the Jewish faith, but whateva. Party time! %)


edit: It always catches me off guard how few jews there are everywhere else. Its not that i'm unaware of that fact, I am. But its just hard to conceptualize having grown up with more Jews than anything else. When I hear someone say theyve never met a jew it literally blows my mind. I guess its just the reality of everywhere but here.
 
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DooMMooD said:
Just FYI there is a HUGE difference between hating on Jews and hating on Israel FYI. The problem now a days is people dont recognize that difference. I hope you do. Not every Jew is in support of Israeli policies.
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The ignorance some people have blows my mind.

DooMMooD said:
Jews definitely have some good food round this time of year. They also know how to party just as hard as the Christians.

Chanukah actually became way bigger than it should be b/c of all the commercialism. Its not even that important in the Jewish faith, but whateva. Party time! %)

edit: It always catches me off guard how few jews there are everywhere else. Its not that i'm unaware of that fact, I am. But its just hard to conceptualize having grown up with more Jews than anything else. When I hear someone say theyve never met a jew it literally blows my mind. I guess its just the reality of everywhere but here.
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+1!
 
DooMMooD said:
Put on your Yamakuah, its time for Chanukah! Now smoke your MariwannaKuah

Just FYI there is a HUGE difference between hating on Jews and hating on Israel FYI. The problem now a days is people dont recognize that difference. I hope you do. Not every Jew is in support of Israeli policies.


Such as myself. I'm a quarter jewish, and my grandmother is jewish. I technically could claim to be full a jew. But I was raised Catholic/Methodist (fallen from both), so I dont celebrate Driedel day. Also in an area that has more jews than anything else. My specific town is over 50% jewish, and the rest of Westchester/NYC is up there in %. So growing up I got to experience it with parts of my family, other friends and such. Definitely had way more jewish friends growing up.

Jews definitely have some good food round this time of year. They also know how to party just as hard as the Christians.

Chanukah actually became way bigger than it should be b/c of all the commercialism. Its not even that important in the Jewish faith, but whateva. Party time! %)


edit: It always catches me off guard how few jews there are everywhere else. Its not that i'm unaware of that fact, I am. But its just hard to conceptualize having grown up with more Jews than anything else. When I hear someone say theyve never met a jew it literally blows my mind. I guess its just the reality of everywhere but here.
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hthr007 said:
The ignorance some people have blows my mind.



+1!
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no one really gives a fuck. merry xmas or gett outta the forum.
 
Iono doom, if yo mother's not jewish, many would consider you a half-breed, or I guess in your case quarter-breed :p ;)

I've had some very interesting experiences with this garbge - lived with the chief editor of the forward, even if it's not my cuppa, in nyc as well as the brother of a hamas politico in beirut, all I have to say is, apart from both of them being very wise men/women:

lonewolf13 said:
no one really gives a fuck. merry xmas or gett outta the forum.
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LOL

latkes out of left over mash pototoes?!?!?!?! crazy grrl*

*I'll try it tho :)

oh, and btw, it's office:

Cappy Hother Mucking Fhanukkah!!
 
Ironically, Chanukkah is a holiday intended to teach Jews of the danger of assimilation and yet Westerners, including many ignorant Jews, lump it in together with Xmas, even- unimaginable horror- giving and receiving gifts during the holiday.

After the death of Alexander the Great his empire quickly dissolved and when the smoke cleared it was basically split into two competitive empires, the Ptolemaic centered in Egypt and the Seleucid in what is now Syria. As always Judaea was squeezed in between 2 great superpowers and the land became a prize that the 2 empires tried to wrest from one another. During the reign of the Selucid potentate Antiochus IV Epiphanes the Seulicids moved from intefering to usurping and tried to assimilate Judaea into the Greek world. Part of this campaign involved outlawing circuncision and compelling Jewish men to worship Greek deities. To accomplish this delegations buttressed by military formations would ride into villages and erect pagan altars and force the men of the village to sacrifice on it.

One day in 167 BCE/BC a Seleucid delegation rode into the village of Modi'in in what is now the so called "West Bank" (wait! I though that WAS Arab land!). There the delegation erected its altar and as was often the case noone came forward to pay obesiance to the Greek deity. After materiel inducements were offered 1 Jewish man stepped forward to worship the Greek deity. A village elder, Matityahu Ben Yochanan HaKohen (Mattathias Son of Yohanan the Priest, usually bastardised as Matthias Ben Yohanan), stepped forward and ran his spear through the man. At that point the village men killed every member of the delegation including its military detail. Afterwards the villagers became yet another band of guerillas resisting Seleucid Rule and assimilation into Hellenism.

Matityahu was a military genius and most importantly fought the local orthadoxy about the prevailing belief that it isn't correct to fight on the Sabbath. A large guerilla band in the same district had been annihilated when its chief forbade fighting on the Day of Rest. Basically, Matityahu said, "Kill em' where you find em'." Eventually his 5 sons led bands of their own and were able to consolidate other guerilla forces until finally, they liberated Jerusalem, the political and spiritual capital of Judaea (wait! I thought it was "Palestinian!").

Upon entering the Temple in Jerusalem, which had been desecrated by the Seleucids, the priests only found enough sacred oil to burn for a single day. Knowing that it would take at least 4 weeks to prepare the neccessary oil the priests gathered the throngs of Jews in prayer and left it up to G-D. The sacred oil lasted 8 full days, a miracle in itself and allowed a second miracle, the preperation which should have taken a month took only a week. This is why we light "Menorahs," 9 sticked candelabrums, the 9th being the light with which we light each stick as each day breaks (we have a lunar calendar and daybreak for us is sundown).

The "latkes" Mariposa mentions, are an Ashkenaz (European Jewry) thing. In Israel we celebrate with freshly fried jelly donuts. The "dreid'l" is a gambling game since we are supposed to party and have fun (one of the times we are commanded to get high if able). The word "Chanukkah" itself means "Re-dedication" to commemorate freeing the Temple of its horrid pagan trappings.
 
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happy holidays


Mariposa said:
YES for pot latkes!

If you have some leftover mashed potatoes this holiday season, however you celebrate, they make amazing latkes. I haven't tried it with cannabutter yet, but that's only temporary. :)
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nice
 
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Are you Jewish Pharcyde? Do you think the word "Kike" is humourous or cute?
 
roflmaoheheh at first glance I thought it said "tikes"... pretty sad to put kike in place of kite in any case... well, I guess that "k" is close to "i" on the keyboard, but still :\
 
Pharcyde: The fact that you are Jewish only makes the slur that much more ignorant and hateful. You are the son of princes and warriors, revel in that and don't demean yourself or your ancestors.
 
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