Happy Hanukkah for our Jewish visitors and friends!

[pjotr]

Chag Chanukah sameach (happy Hanukkah) for Polish jews or Jewish visitors of this Polish Culture Forum.

[pjotr]

In Amsterdam the Netherlands

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Hanukkah Food




Polish Hanukkah Apple Cake

[pjotr]

I just saw that Hanukkah (Chanuka in Polish) started yesterday, 24 December 2016. So I hope, that those of you who celebrate Hanukkah have great Hanukkah this week. Note for non-jewish visitor of the Forum; Hanukkah (Chanuka) is the commemoration of the rededication of the Holy Temple (the Second Temple) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire. Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days, starting on the 25th day of Kislev according to the Hebrew calendar, which may occur at any time from late November to late December in the Gregorian calendar. It is also known as the Festival of Lights and the Feast of Dedication.

English: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah#Symbolic_importance
Polish: pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanuka

[Bonobo]

Dec 25, 2016 17:04:45 GMT 1 pjotr said:

I just saw that Hanukkah (Chanuka in Polish) started yesterday, 24 December 2016. So I hope, that those of you who celebrate Hanukkah have great Hanukkah this week. Note for non-jewish visitor of the Forum; Hanukkah (Chanuka) is the commemoration of the rededication of the Holy Temple (the Second Temple) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire. Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days, starting on the 25th day of Kislev according to the Hebrew calendar, which may occur at any time from late November to late December in the Gregorian calendar. It is also known as the Festival of Lights and the Feast of Dedication.

English: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah#Symbolic_importance
Polish: pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanuka

Peter, have you at last found out your Jewish roots? Good!

[pjotr]

I wish I did Bo!

[jeanne]

Dec 25, 2016 19:40:21 GMT 1 Bonobo said:

Peter, have you at last found out your Jewish roots? Good!

Bonobo and Pieter,

Well, if you are Christian, St. Pope John Paul II said that the Jews are your "elder brothers in the faith..." so I guess that means all Christians have Jewish roots!

(Pass the latke, please!)

[pjotr]

Dec 26, 2016 23:31:19 GMT 1 jeanne said:

Dec 25, 2016 19:40:21 GMT 1 Bonobo said:

Peter, have you at last found out your Jewish roots? Good!

Bonobo and Pieter,

Well, if you are Christian, St. Pope John Paul II said that the Jews are your "elder brothers in the faith..." so I guess that means all Christians have Jewish roots!

(Pass the latke, please!)

I you look at it that way Jeanne, we are. Not by blood, law (Halakha) and thus by a jewish mother, but due to the jewish roots of christianity.

[Bonobo]

Dec 27, 2016 9:04:16 GMT 1 pjotr said:

Dec 26, 2016 23:31:19 GMT 1 jeanne said:

Bonobo and Pieter,

Well, if you are Christian, St. Pope John Paul II said that the Jews are your "elder brothers in the faith..." so I guess that means all Christians have Jewish roots!

(Pass the latke, please!)

I you look at it that way Jeanne, we are. Not by blood, law (Halakha) and thus by a jewish mother, but due to the jewish roots of christianity.

Some nationalist Poles, those less gifted, get surprised when reminded that Jesus and his mother were Jews.

[pjotr]

We can't remind them enough about the fact that not only Jesus and Mary were jewish, but also Josef, and the twelve aposteles; Simon ("who is called Peter"), Andrew ("his [Peter's] brother"), James ("son of Zebedee"), John ("his [James's] brother"), Philip (the apostle who preached in Greece, Syria, and Phrygia), Bartholomew (He has been identified with Nathanael (alternatively spelled Nathaniel), who appears in the Gospel according to John as being introduced to Christ by Philip (who would also become an apostle), Thomas (He is informally called doubting Thomas because he doubted Jesus' resurrection when first told (in the Gospel of John account only), followed later by his confession of faith, "My Lord and my God", on seeing Jesus' wounded body), Matthew (Matthew is mentioned in Matthew 9:9 and Matthew 10:3 as a publican who, while sitting at the "receipt of custom" in Capernaum, was called to follow Jesus), James (James was arrested along with some other Christians and was executed by King Herod Agrippa in persecution of the church), Judas Thaddaeus ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_the_Apostle#Possible_identity_with_Thaddeus ), Simon the Zealot ( Simon is often associated with St. Jude as an evangelizing team; in Western Christianity, they share their feast day on 28 October. The most widespread tradition is that after evangelizing in Egypt, Simon joined Jude in Persia and Armenia or Beirut, Lebanon, where both were martyred in 65 AD. This version is the one found in the Golden Legend. He may have suffered crucifixion as the Bishop of Jerusalem), and last but not least Judas Iscariot ( He is known for the kiss and betrayal of Jesus to the Sanhedrin for thirty silver coins. His name is often used synonymously with betrayal or treason).

To go futher the very concept of the church building is based on the Synagogue or temple. Jeanne said in the topic about synagogues in Poland, that they look like churches. They do, both the synagogue and church are based on the worship of one god, Jahweh, Adonai, Hashem, Jehova, the omniscience (infinite knowledge), omnipotence (unlimited power), omnipresence (present everywhere), divine simplicity, and as having an eternal and necessary existence, Bóg, Lord, Dieu, herr, Heer (Dutch) and etc. In the jewish sense the Lord is one, and in the christian sense he is present in the form of trinity (the father, the son and the holy ghost), but the god (jahweh, G'd, Adonai, Hashem) is the same. The way we experience our faith, religion and god is different. (Between them - jews- and us christians).

[pjotr]

For christians the messiah has already come with Jesus Christ, for jews the jewish messiah still has to come!