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The Festival of Lights

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Tonight will be the first night of Chanuka, the 25th day of Kislev.  For those of you who celebrate Christmas, you might recognize that number- 25. That date wasn’t chosen by accident by the first Christians. (It also explains why this is one of the few- the very few- holidays Christians celebrate on the “eve”- because it derives from the Jewish rule that a day is one evening and one morning….The others are New Year’s and Easter.)

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We lit the menora!

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Today is the first day of Chanuka. (That means last night was the first night of the holiday.)  For those of you who follow the Gregorian calendar, you would say the holiday is arriving early.   Not as early as it did a few years ago, when it landed on Thanksgiving- but pretty early, nevertheless. (Chanuka always falls on the 25th day of Kislev, though, on our calendar.)

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Chanuka

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Tonight is the first night of Chanuka. For those of you who follow the Gregorian calendar, you would say the holiday is arriving early.   It won’t fall this ‘early’ again for some 80,000+ years. (Chanuka always falls on the 25th day of Kislev, though, in our calendar.)

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