Here is the second night...
Dec. 12th, 2009 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phynckeI am here again with my Hanukkah Celebration. I like to educate a bit and here is an excerpt from Wikipedia, the source of all on the internet.
About Hanukkah:
From the Hebrew word for "dedication" or "consecration", Hanukkah marks the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after its desecration by the forces of the King of Syria Antiochus IV Epiphanes and commemorates the "miracle of the container of oil". According to the Talmud, at the re-dedication following the victory of the Maccabees over the Seleucid Empire, there was only enough consecrated olive oil to fuel the eternal flame in the Temple for one day. Miraculously, the oil burned for eight days, which was the length of time it took to press, prepare and consecrate fresh olive oil.
And that is why it is celebrated for eight days...the oil lasted for eight days. Etc.
The larger article is here on wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah
More info than you ever wanted about it.
Tonight, one lights two candles, with the shamash (worker) candle (total of three candles on the menorah). See below for my picture. Behind the cut to save your friends page.
I said the blessing. There are many blessings but I just do the short version and say the one blessing over the candles. Happy Hanukkah all.
In other news...it poured down rain here most of the day and I got some holiday things done. I mailed a package to my sister in law in LA and wrote out my final set of holiday cards. I will mail those on Monday.
I took myself out for french onion soup and a nice salad at the Drunken Boat Cafe up the street. Just a nice lunch and enjoyed my new FX Digital Art magazine in front of their Crimmas tree. It was a gorgeous tree there full of lovely ornaments that I can tell had been carefully collected over the years. Very nice.
Later on I had a great nap here at the apartment. Boy, did I need that. Tomorrow I am going to see Blind Side with a work chum and we are going out for dinner. Awesome.
Thank you to: jaiden_s, elflover59, and red_lasbelin for the lovely holiday cards sent my way. They are displayed here and adding cheer to my world. Beautiful cards chosen by you all and lovely messages.
I hope you all are enjoying the season and having a safe and happy weekend.
by wildrosedragon at potof_gold
About Hanukkah:
From the Hebrew word for "dedication" or "consecration", Hanukkah marks the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after its desecration by the forces of the King of Syria Antiochus IV Epiphanes and commemorates the "miracle of the container of oil". According to the Talmud, at the re-dedication following the victory of the Maccabees over the Seleucid Empire, there was only enough consecrated olive oil to fuel the eternal flame in the Temple for one day. Miraculously, the oil burned for eight days, which was the length of time it took to press, prepare and consecrate fresh olive oil.
And that is why it is celebrated for eight days...the oil lasted for eight days. Etc.
The larger article is here on wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah
More info than you ever wanted about it.
Tonight, one lights two candles, with the shamash (worker) candle (total of three candles on the menorah). See below for my picture. Behind the cut to save your friends page.
I said the blessing. There are many blessings but I just do the short version and say the one blessing over the candles. Happy Hanukkah all.
In other news...it poured down rain here most of the day and I got some holiday things done. I mailed a package to my sister in law in LA and wrote out my final set of holiday cards. I will mail those on Monday.
I took myself out for french onion soup and a nice salad at the Drunken Boat Cafe up the street. Just a nice lunch and enjoyed my new FX Digital Art magazine in front of their Crimmas tree. It was a gorgeous tree there full of lovely ornaments that I can tell had been carefully collected over the years. Very nice.
Later on I had a great nap here at the apartment. Boy, did I need that. Tomorrow I am going to see Blind Side with a work chum and we are going out for dinner. Awesome.
Thank you to: jaiden_s, elflover59, and red_lasbelin for the lovely holiday cards sent my way. They are displayed here and adding cheer to my world. Beautiful cards chosen by you all and lovely messages.
I hope you all are enjoying the season and having a safe and happy weekend.
by wildrosedragon at potof_gold
