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J. A. SEIFERT, 0. D.
OPTOMETRIST
Children's Cornell
JI Column for Our Boys and
By UNCLE JUDAH
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The lights of the Temple that had
been put out by the Syrians were
again lit and for eight days a
great and joyous feast was cele-
brated, and Jerusalem again be-
came a busy city, full of life and
happiness. And from that time
on our people remembered the
great and brave acts of the Macca-
bees by celebrating a feast every
year that starts on the twenty-
fifth day of Kislev and lasts eight
days. During that feast little
ligh ts are burned, starting with
one and adding more every eve-
ning until eight lights are lit, and
songs of joy are sung, just as the
Maccabees did at the time they
won back for their people their
capital and their country and
started again the worship of the
one true God in the Temple. This
feast is called Chanukah, or Dedi-
cation, which means the feast that
has always reminded our people of
the time when 016 Temple at Je-
rusalem was given over (dedicat-
ed) again to the worship of the
one true God.
BLESSINGS FOR CHANUKAH
By Jesse E. Sampter.
Blessed art thou, 0 God our Lord,
Who made us holy with His word,
And told us on this feast of light
To light one candle more each
night.
(Because when foes about us
pressed
To crush us all with death or
shame,
The Lord his priests with courage
blest
To strike and give his people rest
And in the House that he loved
best
Relit our everlasting flame.)
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A HAPPY CHANUKAH TO YOU ALL:
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This Friday night, Dec. 4, the first Chanukah candle will be lit,
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and with it will be ushered in one of the happiest Jewish holidays,
which is also known as the Feast of the Maccabees and the Feast of
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Lights. It is called the Feast of the Maccabees because it commemor-
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ates the victory of the Mccabaeans over the Greeks, when the Greeks
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wanted to exterminate the Jewish nation and the Jewish religion.
And it is called the Feast of Lights because for eight nights we kindle
the Chanukah tapers in honor of this festival and in celebration of
Blest art Thou, the whole world's
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the time when the Temple at Jerusalem was rededicated.
King,
Besides enjoying the tasty delicacies and the beautiful ceremonies
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of Chanukah, and exchanging gifts, I am sure that all of you must
Who did so wonderful a thing
have heard the story of Chanukah. The Greeks invaded the Jewish
For our own fathers true and bold
homeland, l'alestine, and wanted to uproot all Jewish religious beliefs
At this same time in days of old!
and practices. Mattathias and his sons, at the head of whom was the
brave Judas, who is known as the Maccabee, or the Hammerer, from
the Hebrew word for hammer, then lived in Modin, and was the first
to rebel against the Greeks. They led the thousands of Jews who
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refused to submit to Greece, and finally won a great victory. And
when they went to Jerusalem to rededicate the Temple they found
a very small quantity of oil. But this oil continued to burn for eight
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This happened 1,996 years ago, but we still celebrate this festival.
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a
word
about
our
Chanukah
contest.
Bernard
Isaacs,
the
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superintendent of the United Hebrew Schools of Detroit, who is the
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judge of the competition, tells me that there are so many taking
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part that he will have to get a few extra days to judge all the essays
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and poems. For this reason we decided to postpone the decisions
until next week. So read this column in the next issue, and you
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will learn the name of the winner and read the winning essay or poem.
In the meantime I am going to tell you a Chanukah story and
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recite to you a few Chanukah poems. And until we meet again next
and Patrons
week I wish you all a very happy Chanukah.
With Very Best Chanukah Greetings
YOUR IINCLE JUDAH.
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was not satisfied to have captured
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young and old. House Jews worship idols. The army
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of the candles and idols and told the Jews that they
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other customs make must worship those idols or they
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the Feast of Dedica- would be put to death. Again,
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known, stand out than to worship idols. For a while
among the most in- it seemed now as though the
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spiring periods in the wicked Syrians would be success.
Jewish year.
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games involving something of th e that there were still people amon
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games have been invented t o only to die for their religion, bu ot
beautify the Chanukah obsery - that seemed much harder at th t,
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ance, and in playing this game th e time, to fight for it. There was at
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stances the Nun meaning "nichts,' ' noble old man, said: "If all th d I
nothing, winning none of the pot ; nations of the earth should bo w
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the Gimmel "ganz," all, winnin g down to the king's idols, my son
the entire pot; Itch, "Halb," hal f, and I will remain true to the On
winning half the pot; and Shi n, God." These words made th
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act,
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Judas with his shield and sword
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