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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
December 24, 1943
Light On Chanukah
The quaint origin of Latkes is
saga. The writers were followers illumination for the Temple in
Jerusalem. The Menorah in the the most popular Chanukas deli-
of the Maccabeans.
The 25th (lay of the Hebrew Temple was seven-branched but racy is supposed to be the pan-
Director of Bnai Brith Publicity
month of Kislev, on which we cele- because it was forbidden to repro- cakes hastily prepared by the Jew-
Among the many explanations additional one on each successive brate the first (lay of Chanukah, duce the scared golden Menorah ish women for the soldiers of Mac-
advanced for the origin of the (lay of the festival, but once it was sacred to the pagan Greeks of the Temple for ritual or other cabeus when they halted for rest
was customary to light eight cand-
pursuing the troops of the
name Chunakah is that it comes les on the first (lay and to reduce before it became a Jewish fes- purposes, the Chanukah Menorah while
Syrians. So strengthened were the
tival.
Antiochus
Epiphanes,
the
is
not
seven-branched.
from Chanok, or Enoch, a charac- the number one each successive
In the light of the proscription Maccabean warriors by those pan-
Greek ruler who is the villian of
ter in Genesis, the great-great- night.
the Chanukah story, offered a on imitating the Menorah, the cakes, that Judas Maccabeus is
It was once the custom to place burnt offering in the Temple of Jews of old fashioned a lamp of supposed to have decreed that
great grandson of Adam, who lived
365 years, and who is associated the Chanukah lights outside the Jerusalem on that (lay three years similar shape for the Chanukah Jews should cat latkes on Chan-
by mystics with light because his house.
before the Maccabeans instituted service by utilizing the Menorah ukah.
The traditional Chanukah drei-
The kindling of Chanukah lights Chanukah.
years on earth equalled the num-
motif and adapting it to the needs
Weddings may take place on of an eight-day festival by means dol's four Hebrew letters on each
ber of days of the sun's journey. was prohibited in the third cen-
Chanukah literally means dedi- tury of the Christian era in Per- Chanukah, but not on Purim, al- of a lamp of four semi-circles in- side—Nun, Gimmol, Hay and Shin,
cations, the dedication having ref- sia because the fire-worshiping though both are minor festivals stead of three, with the central awroerdstheNeisnsitiGalosdooi f HtohyechHesbhroenwl,
erence to the ancient Temple in Magians, to whom fire was sacred, in the Hebrew calendar, shaft used for the Shammash.
Bnai Brith was the first Jewish meaning "a great miracle occur-
Jerusalem which was re-dedicated were in power.
"Moaz-Tzur," the familiar hymn
Chanukah is the only Jewish that is sung after the kindling of organization in the United States red there," the miracle being the
after the triumph of the Jews over
festival based on a Jewish tri- the Chanukah lights, is not a Jew- to use the seven-branched Menorah eight days during which the oil
their oppressors.
Chanukah is observed for eight umph of arms against its enemies. ish melody but an adaptation of as its official emblem. The Menorah burned in the Temple.
Jerusalem was liberated from an old German folk song of the has been the symbol of Bnai Brith
(lays because of the tradition that
a cruse of oil found in the Tem- the Turks on Chanukah in 1917, Middle Ages. This German tune from the time it was founded in
ple after the Jewish victory burned General Allenby having entered has also been utilized by Ch ri s- 1813. Every Bnai Brith meeting
Sincere Chanukah Greetings!
for eight days, although there was the city during the Feast of tian s, Martin Luther having era. room has a Menorah and this sym-
bol
is
used
on
stationery,
litera-
lights.
only enough oil for one day.
ployed it for his chorale. One of
The story of Chanukah does not the poems in Lord Byron's "He- tune, publications, books, pins and
The first day of Chanukah can
never occur on a Tuesday. This appear in the Old Testament but brew Melodies," — "On Jordan's banners.
In the Bnai Brith ritual the
year it fell on Wednesday, Dec. 22. is recounted in the pod-Biblical Banks"—was set to the music of
Today we light one candle on Books of the Maccabees, all writ- "Moaz Tzur" by the great poet's seven lights of the Menorah are
illuminated to the accompaniment
the first day of Chanukah and an ten in Greek by Palestinian, Alex- Jewish friend, Isaac Nathan.
One of the monarchs of the Cha- of a special prayer. The lights,
andrian and Cyrenese Jewish writ-
zars, a South Russian people who in order, stand for Light, Peace,
ers within a century after the were converted to Judaism in the Truth, Benovelence, Brotherly
A Joyous Chanukah to All!
events portrayed in the Chanukah eighth century, was named Chan- Love and Harmony, the latter
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three being the three virtues which
ukah.
The name of Maccabeus, hero of make up Bnai Brith's motto.
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The Menorah remained a sym-
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served in the name of many Jew- bol of the Jewish people until
ish sports groups, notably the Mac- Medieval times when the six-point-
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