One of the items on my list is to learn more about the Jewish traditions. I know the basics about many of them: "this is the one with the menorah", "this is the one with the seder", "this is the one with the latkes", "this is the one with the costumes", "this is the New Year", "this is the one where we laugh at Andy as he reads the four questions because he is always the youngest one in the room and then goes to find the afikomen". And I know the basic backgrounds of the major holidays too: the eight days the candle burned when there was only enough oil for one, the celebration of the Israelite's escape from slavery (including the unlevened bread for their hasty escape and other the other symbollic foods of the pesach seder and the answers to those famous four questions), etc.
For an Irish Catholic, I think I have a decent understanding of the biggies. But not great. Not as much as I'd like. There are still many aspects of the holidays (and traditions) I don't understand.
Recently, my beautiful sister-in-law (yay) posted on her own blog a little article about Hanukkah that I really enjoyed. It was some nice, light reading stuff, but it went along nicely with some of the other articles I have read recently. “Hanukkah: A Guide for the Perplexed” is a link that she included as additional reading from her own blog, and I enjoyed clicking through it. I feel like this might be a site as we approach other holidays as well, just so that I can take a look. This one, although an older article, was informative as well: from the Inside Israel website.
With that, I wish you...
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