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Vermont_Lymie
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Thanks!!! We love lighting the candles! It seems like the perfect metaphor for recovery from TBDs; the miraculous endurance of light and energy just when all resources are depleted and all looks dark...
Wishing everyone more light and energy.
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MagicAcorn
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May love and light fill your home and heart at Hanukkah.
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. ~Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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HAPPY HANNUKKAK to all who are of that faith! watched some tv news about that and lighting of the candles above a building every night during your celebration.
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Ann-OH
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There are so many ways to spell Chanukkah. Yours is quite inventive, Betty. I don't know about lighting candles above a building. Mostly people just light them in a special candlabra called a Menorah.
The whole celebration is to commemorate the reconsecration of the Jerusalem temple after the Jews won it back from the Greeks in the 2nd century BC.
After reconsecration, a light was supposed to burn in the temple around the clock, but there was only a small amount of oil available. The oil managed to last for 8 days until more oil was available. Thus the celebrating for 8 days.
It isn't a very religious holiday, just festive and fun, with good food and some presents.
Pretty good explanation, eh? And I am not even Jewish.
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