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Post by Visible Ghost on Dec 12, 2006 4:59:27 GMT -5
In Australia we don't have it. Can anyone explain?
All I heard is that it is a Jewish belief that is celebrated in America.
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Post by Mclord on Dec 12, 2006 10:06:53 GMT -5
One thing:You spelt it wrong. And 2nd:I dunno i celebrate Christmas not Hunikkah...and thats how you spell it.
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Post by oman on Dec 15, 2006 22:06:00 GMT -5
they have 9 candles, every day they light one, and give one religious based gift.
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Post by Mclord on Dec 15, 2006 23:32:22 GMT -5
They do?Sweet.Stupid.Weird.
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Post by darthnotrevan on Dec 16, 2006 23:55:38 GMT -5
Not stupid, just different. It's sounds similar to Christmas but Christmas in the U.S. has been kind of "Americanized" in a sense. Most people don't know it's about the birth of Christ.
No offence meant to anyone. Just putting in my two-cents.
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Post by nate66 on Dec 24, 2007 9:37:13 GMT -5
okay.. crash course in Hanukkah..
pretty much hanukkah is an eight day holiday in which they remember when the Maccabees revolted against the king, and they went into the temple to pray, and found that they only had enough lamp oil to last one day. Problem was, it takes eight days to make the lamp oil.. but by the grace of God, the lamp stayed lit for the eight days, hence the eight days, and eight candels.
each day has a special meaning, and they eat many neato things, like potatoe pancakes and challah bread, which looks absolutely beautiful!
also, a little tid bit of info for Christmas, it's s'posed to be to celebrate the birth of Christ, son of God, when in actuallity, Christ was born sometime more in April. Dec 25 just happens to be when the same time a pegan holiday was.. so constantine the great, in his attemp to unit all Rome under a state religion, melded the two, making the trasnition from pegan to christian a little easier.
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