Dry Bones hit on something very important in his Chanuka cartoon this year:
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His message that the biggest, "the real miracle is that the light has lasted for more than two thousand years!"
I think of that every year during Purim. Here in Shiloh we have a two day Purim, meaning that all the mitzvot are doubled. Yes, we hear the Megilla four times, and we get to know it pretty well. When I hear the commitments of what we're supposed to do to commemorate the miracles, I am always reassured, because here we are well over two thousand years later still doing those things.
Our Jewish religion is an old one, and we are the descendants of Ester, Mordechai and the Maccabees. Christianity and Islam were invented after these Jewish holidays were established. They are upstarts. Chanuka and Purim are proof of it!
His message that the biggest, "the real miracle is that the light has lasted for more than two thousand years!"
I think of that every year during Purim. Here in Shiloh we have a two day Purim, meaning that all the mitzvot are doubled. Yes, we hear the Megilla four times, and we get to know it pretty well. When I hear the commitments of what we're supposed to do to commemorate the miracles, I am always reassured, because here we are well over two thousand years later still doing those things.
Our Jewish religion is an old one, and we are the descendants of Ester, Mordechai and the Maccabees. Christianity and Islam were invented after these Jewish holidays were established. They are upstarts. Chanuka and Purim are proof of it!