I spun my dradle, and I didn't even get ring around the Challah! Better to win a bagle than to drive a Winnebago - given the price of gas (not to mention lox which you can finally get from the local fisheries, so they tell me - and at a reasonable price).
Merry Christmas to all - and enjoy the timing of Hannukah which allows for eight more days of the Christmas Presence, so to speak.
It's my excuse for not mailing early.
So, Chappy Channukah to you too! The Solstice was yesterday. Have an even fuller day tomorrow. . .
Get those candles up in the right order on the menorah. I think you start from the outside in except for the lighting candle which always stands in the middle. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I appreciate your remarks, Inda, about the irony of it, but I don't think Hannukah will ever be assimilated like the secular version of "X-mas." (Personally I do most of my shopping at January sales). Nonetheless, I say rejoice in your pagan roots if you have them and are lucky enough to feel them on the solstice. If you know there is more than one Judas, you can celebrate the sustaining of the flame and the resistant nature thing. It's all good stuff!
The Book of Ruth tells the Jew that it is good thing to assimilate the good neighbor. The real problem for Judaism is the usurpation of religion by the State which perverts it, just like in the US, n'est-ce pas? The US, where the Christians generally are Right but not Christian. Jesus died for their sins,if not Joshua who fit the battle of Jericho. (And the walls came tumbling down).
Out goes the Rooster and in comes the Doggie! Happy New Year - and a new up and coming January of '06. It's been a hundred years since that earth-shaking last January '06 roun' here.