CHANUKA IS COMING!!! LATKES & SUFGANIOT GALORE (& lets not forget the chocolate Gelt. ) HANUKA, CHANUKAH, anyway you spell it... [● LIKE & SHARE ●] ● Significance: Remembers the rededication of the Temple after it was defiled by the Greeks ● Observances: Lighting candles ● Customs: eating fried foods (Latkes=Potato Pancakes, Sufganiot=Doughnuts); playing with a dreidel (top), often playing for gelt (Yiddish for gold, meaning coins, sometimes using real coins, often using chocolate coins) On the 25th of Kislev are the days of Chanukkah, which are eight... these were appointed a Festival with Hallel [prayers of praise] and thanksgiving. -Shabbat 21b, Babylonian Talmud [click below to read more] ✔ via the Kosher Culture Foundation
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 22:41:26 +0000