Comments on: The Empty Menorah https://www.jwire.com.au/the-empty-menorah/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:17:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Emes https://www.jwire.com.au/the-empty-menorah/#comment-11237 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:17:20 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=21429#comment-11237 Lynne,

Sorry to disappoint you, but the Chanukah candles and their meaning – as so eloquently explained by Rabbi Gourarie – have absolutely nothing to do with Christianity, nor do they have parallels in Christianity.

Fundamentally, Chanukah commemorates the battle against the assimilationist ethic of Jewish hellenists and their Syrian-Greek supporters (which predates the life of Jesus and Christianity by hundreds of years).

To endeavour to compare Jewish festivals with Christian practices is historically inaccurate, as well as insulting to the unique aspects of both Jewish and Christian ritual.

]]> By: Lynne Newington https://www.jwire.com.au/the-empty-menorah/#comment-11185 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 06:40:36 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=21429#comment-11185 A little like the Advent candle guess, with only five candles, lit once a week until Christmas Day. The first being purple, the Candle of Hope, connected to the Patriarchs, Abraham, the Old Testament Ancestors of Jesus.

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