Hanukkah - Night 2/8
Dec. 2nd, 2010 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phynckeSpent in pretzel formation at empowerment yoga class. Lit candles late and I am too tired to share the photo. Sorry gang! That is the long and short of it. I thought I would share a bit about the meaning of the holiday ... referencing some online sources and personal memories.
Hanukkah is the festival of lights. (all me)
From wiki:
Chanukah or Chanuka), also known as the Festival of Lights is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple (the Second Temple) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE.
Me: Temple was desecrated and they were trying to restore it. They thought the oil in the lamps would only last a little while and it last eight days. Miracle!
Wiki:
the Maccabees discovered that almost all of the ritual olive oil had been profaned. They found only a single container that was still sealed by the High Priest, with enough oil to keep the menorah in the Temple lit for a single day. They used this, and miraculously, that oil burned for eight days (the time it took to have new oil pressed and made ready).
In other news:
Anyhoo. I am slammed at work but yoga was cool. We got 10 minute massages from a local massage therapist. That was way cool. She does house calls...I have always wanted to do that...have someone come to my house and give me a massage. I wonder if my cat would stand for that. Huh.
Catch ya soon.
by nienna_weeper
Hanukkah is the festival of lights. (all me)
From wiki:
Chanukah or Chanuka), also known as the Festival of Lights is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple (the Second Temple) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE.
Me: Temple was desecrated and they were trying to restore it. They thought the oil in the lamps would only last a little while and it last eight days. Miracle!
Wiki:
the Maccabees discovered that almost all of the ritual olive oil had been profaned. They found only a single container that was still sealed by the High Priest, with enough oil to keep the menorah in the Temple lit for a single day. They used this, and miraculously, that oil burned for eight days (the time it took to have new oil pressed and made ready).
In other news:
Anyhoo. I am slammed at work but yoga was cool. We got 10 minute massages from a local massage therapist. That was way cool. She does house calls...I have always wanted to do that...have someone come to my house and give me a massage. I wonder if my cat would stand for that. Huh.
Catch ya soon.
by nienna_weeper
