Comments on: Happy Hanukkah!

By: poliwog

poliwog — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:46:47 +0000

Thanks for the video. My kids and I have really been enjoying the holiday videos you’ve been posting.

By: Bookworm

Bookworm — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:39:33 +0000

Thank you, shirleyelizabeth. As someone who grew up in a mixed home, I have the pleasure of celebrating both Christmas and Hanukkah and, I hope, of appreciating the profound messages both holidays send.

By: shirleyelizabeth

shirleyelizabeth — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:36:16 +0000

Having been taught this story as a Christian, I have always wondered why we didn’t still mark the miracle. As I understood it, the reason I don’t celebrate the traditional Jewish holidays that commemorate events I believe in (like passover) is because I also believe Jesus Christ came and fulfilled their meaning or purpose. But I never understood why we didn’t celebrate this miracle. As the author ties it’s meaning back to the temple it makes more sense to me, and the story I was taught has more meaning as well. What a beautiful holiday. I hope you have a wonderful Hanukkah.

By: SADIE

SADIE — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:08:59 +0000

I really hate it when a moonbat/moonbeam hijacks the holiday. (SacBee) — Gov. Jerry Brown sees a modern day message for proponents of solar power in the story of Hanukkah. Speaking at the Capitol Menorah Lighting this morning, the Democratic governor cast the eight-day Jewish holiday, which begins tomorrow, as a good time to reflect on “the whole idea that we’re running out of oil so we need a miracle.” Today’s miracle, he said, “is not to find more oil, but to utilize the sun.”