(Cincinnati.com) Two Cincinnati rabbis — who felt that Jews in America needed a holiday of their own to compete with Christmas — are responsible for contriving and popularizing Hanukkah in America, according to Dianne Ashton, a professor of religion studies at Rowan University:
In an editorial published by the independent media website, The Conversation, Ashton explains that outside of America, Hanukkah is regarded as a minor Jewish holiday.
In the decades after the Civil War, Rabbi Isaac M. Wise of Plum Street Temple and Rabbi Max Lilienthal of Mound Street Temple introduced Hanukkah festivals to their congregations and promoted them in their publications to Jews across the nation.
“Through their efforts, special Hanukkah events for children became standard in American synagogues,” Ashton wrote.
Hanukkah, with its many variant spellings, is the Hebrew word for “dedication.”
The holiday commemorates the re-dedication of the Jewish holy temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabees, a group of Jewish rebel warriors led by Judah, liberated the temple from the Seleucid Empire in 165 B.C.
The temple’s menorah was required to be lit every night. According to Jewish lore, only one flask of holy olive oil was found, enough to light for one day, yet the oil burned for eight days.
Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, begins on the 25th day of the Hebrew month Kislev (which can fall in parts of November and December).
For eight days, candles are lit by a shamash (“helper”) candle, adding one candle each day, to commemorate the miracle of the lights.
In her book, “Hanukkah in America: A History,” Ashton reveals how Wise and Lilienthal, as leaders of Reform Judaism in America, reshaped the holiday to attract Jewish children to honor their heritage.
One obstacle, as they saw it, was that schools taught about American heroes like George Washington rather than ancient Jewish heroes in a far-off land…
Another obstacle was Christmas, which was gaining popularity in the late 19th century. Its traditions of songs and gift-giving were particularly enticing to children.
Inspired by the way Christian churches used Christmas to teach children about their religion, Lilienthal adopted the use of hymns, festivals and toys for Hanukkah.
“We must do something, too, to enliven our children,” Lilienthal wrote in an editorial in 1876. “[They] shall have a grand and glorious Chanukah festival nicer than any Christmas festival.”
Lilienthal created a festival where the Hanukkah story was told, candles were lit and candies and gifts were handed out to children. Wise also introduced the festivals to his congregation. Then they encouraged all Jews to do likewise.
“Chanukah is entirely neglected in so many of our Jewish families … [that] we [should] celebrate it publicly … in every congregation,” Lilienthal wrote. “The children shall have it as a day of rejoicing [in] our religion. Chanukah can be celebrated to delight young and old.”
In 1891, The Enquirer reported on the “Chanukkah” festivities planned in Cincinnati…
The Chanukkah Festival Society of the Poor would be held at Plum Street Temple where “over 500 children will be made happy with toys, candies and other good things.”
Ashton concludes, “In its similarity to Christmas domestic gift-giving, Hanukkah makes Judaism attractive to children and … relatable to Jews’ Christian neighbors …
“In America, this minor festival has attained major significance.”
Not only is Hanakkah a completely fabricated holiday — like Afro-American affirmative action holiday, Kwanzaa — the notion that today’s Jews are descendants of the ancient Israelites — and more specifically Judah and the Maccabees — is far more preposterous.
The Jews themselves admit to this impersonation in their own publications — according to the 1980 Jewish Almanac, “Strictly speaking, it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a Jew or to call a contemporary Jew an Israelite or a Hebrew.”
As Jewish-Israeli professor Shlomo Sand thoroughly demonstrated in his book, The Invention Of The Jewish People, the notion that today’s Jews are descendants of King David is just that — a notion — a myth — wishful thinking.
And these two rabbis in Cincinnati contrived Hanukkah as a way of selling this fake babylonian mystery religion — Judaism — to young impressionable Jewish children — who are rewarded with gifts and gelt if they agree to go along with this impersonation.
As Jews have risen in preeminent power and wealth in America — to the point where they now “own the whole freaking country” — they naturally have used that ill-gotten power to legally abolish any suggestion of Christmas on public property while replacing it with their ersatz Hanukkah.
Read in their own words how Chabad-affiliated Jewish lawyers and corrupt judges have manipulated the law to allow Hanukkah displays on public property — while maintaining the ban on Christmas displays.
And then they have the chutzpah to now claim that there is now a “War on Hanukkah“.
If the Jews lamp had oil for only one day , but burned for eight days, they had to have turned the wick down.
Or burned it only at night.
a second and final solution is coming to the world, sooner is better.
Note: Hanukkah happened 40 YEARS BEFORE the “Jews joined the Judeans” and it was in 165 B.C. when the Maccabees (who were NOT Edomite Jews) “Cleansed the Sanctuary” thus fulfilling Daniel 8:14 at the end of the “2300 days.” Jews did not “Join the Judeans” until 125 B.C. when King John Hyrcanus II of Judah, the last REAL High Priest and King of Judah, defeated the Edomite Jews in Idumea (Greek for Edom) in 125 B.C. To top that off, Hanukkah didn’t happen on December 25th, as those lying demon seed Edomite Jews pretend.
Four years later, the Jews murdered King John and bribed the Romans to insert Herald the Edomite in as “King of Judea.” That’s HOW demon seed Edomite Jews “wormed their way” into OUR European Tribe of Judah! The jews don’t have ONE DROP of Judah’s blood in their satanic seed. Jews are the “Children of Esau Edom” and NOT of Jacob Israel as all the lying “Christian” WHORE pastors teach today! Skip.
Interesting theory, Skip, but have you read our series on Edom in Scripture? We be interested to hear your thoughts…
https://christiansfortruth.com/edom-in-the-old-and-new-testaments/
https://christiansfortruth.com/edom-in-the-prophecy-of-malachi/
Jews have great ‘Hanukkah'(dedication) for their Talmud that’s why there fine liars & killers…
FYI: They calling anything ‘festival of lights’ is Also straight clone from the HINDU celebration of DIVALI…the jew the eternal thief
Hanukkah, the festival of dedication, is in Maccabees, but the 8-day oil miracle isn’t! Josephus doesn’t mention it either! It’s only in the Talmud. No contemporary source mentions it. The 9-candle menorah, called the chanukiah, is fake news. Only the 7-candle one is in the Tanakh.
That which distinguishes CHRISTianity from the tribal faux religions is the human suffering and appeal to the downtrodden as opposed to Judaism and Islam with their appeal of conquest and oppression of non-members . Christianity was the religion of Slaves and the Poor because it promised Grace and Humanity.
The claim that “All religions are the same” is foolish.
The Jews made a deity of the law which, after all they wrote it, so they were deifying their own works. Christ made NEW by telling those who would listen that the law was in their hearts (i.e. the spiritual spark of divinity is in each and every one of us). Like any organized religion, Christ represented a heretic to the Jews hold over the people so he had to be killed and kill him they did.
The United States of America is the only nation in human history established by mostly Christian people, founded upon 2,000 years of Christian thought, Reformation preaching and NEW Testament Biblical Natural Law principles—and dedicated to the purpose of religious and personal liberty and equal justice under the law. This truth is easily observed within America’s earliest history. Seventeen seventy-six represented the culmination of thousands of years of western civilization and the triumph not only of spirit, but of wisdom, philosophy, and reason.
Destroy Christianity …. to destroy all Human RIGHTS
Spark of divinity sounds like a Jewish Kaballah concept not found in Scripture. Christians have the Holy Spirit abiding but they of their own are not divine and never will be.
2011 VERSION: THE WAR AGAINST CHRISTMAS: REFLECTIONS ON HANUKKAH, CHRISTMAS, AND “NITEL”
https://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com/2011/12/2011-version-war-against-christmas-2010.html
Lots of fun pictures too!
If you want to know who is in charge, look at who you are not allowed to criticize…
They don’t have one festival that isn’t dedicated to defeating, or getting one over, another group of people. That’s all you need to know.
Hanukkah is celebrated rather indifferently in the Israeli state but is observed with much more interest in the US — as competition for Christmas, in order to symbolically assert the supremacy of the jews over the rest of humanity.
The secret of Hanukkah was disclosed by Rabbi Levi Isaac ben Meir of Berdichev, a prominent eighteenth century legal authority. Rabbi Meir revealed a secret known only to a few: that lighting the hanukkah menorah does not commemorate the victory of the biblical Maccabees. The arcane traditional doctrine of the sages of the talmud concerning hanukkah is that it commemorates G_d’s “delight in the jewish people” themselves, and their presumptuous and pretentious celebrations.
The secret teaching of hanukkah is that G_d supposedly provided a mythical eight days of oil not as a means of facilitating a victory, or of guaranteeing the successful completion of a sacred duty, but rather as a sign of G_d’s continuing adoration of the jews, which all the rest of us are supposed to emulate, as we in fact do, whenever we allow a menorah to be erected where a Nativity scene is banned.
Hanukkah is talmudism’s principal weapon for injecting the religion of the talmud into the civic life of America during the month of December, at a time when Chritianity and it’s symbols, such as Nativity scenes are increasingly marginalized or banned completely from the public square in favor of menorah lightings, materialism, and the collective jingle of cash registers. The images of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph are made to descend during the Christmas season while the Menorah and the judaic self worship it represents, rise.
In the religion of judaism the hanukkah menorah is the symbol of the supreme position which the talmudic people supposedly occupy in G_d’s eyes. The hanukkah menorah is not a symbol of a biblical occurance. Hanukkah is a man made talmudic tradition intended for self-idolatry. It represents the victory not of the Maccabees over the pagans, but the selective memory of the rabbis over history. Hanukkah is an enduring commitment to the dark racial and religious conceit of the rabbinic and zionist jews disguised as a holiday light and cheer for all, and as such it is a kind of abbreviation for and asummation of the strange god of self adulation which is the central idol of the adherents of orthodox judaism and the central violation of the First Commandment of Exodus 20.3: Thou shalt not place false gods before me.