THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
48—Friday, December 5, 1969
Hanuka
Minyan for Wedding
only to light the Menora for a ! to the father with the concluding
day, but it miraculously lasted for sentence, "send me a hundred do!-
lars," in an unsympathetic, cold
Hanuka is not a major holiday, eight days.
tone.
Then father gave me a penny.
but it is beloved and abreast of
The father was indignant. "What
modern times. It even reaches out said. "That is good for only a (lay."
nerve! Just tells me to send hint
in a humble way symbolically in "Make it last for eight," he replied. •
one
hundred dollars. I won't!"
great
ap-
anuka story has its
Hanuka
the menora to the worlds of outer
The father went about "boiling"
space. It was Josephus who wrote peal not because it is so unusual
about
his son's letter for a week.
2,000 years ago that the seven but because it is so usual. It could
then showed it to another friend,
branches of the Menora stand for have happened as it did 2.100 year's
ago and it could happen tomorrow. who read the worlds, ''send me a
the seven planets.
hundred dollars." in a soft, plead-
* .
Everyone has his favorite holiday.
It's the old story of one of those , ing, agonized tone.
The cantor and choir put on their
"Well. said the father, "now that
supreme performances on Rosh dictator guys with the God com-
he talks that way, I'll send him the
Hashanah and Yom Kippur and plex. The Book of Maccabees says
money."
of
Antiochus
that
he
had
no
regard
some like that. But who can say
What all of this comes to is we
which is the more important? Sim- for God and regarded himself as don't even like the dictatorial tone.
hat Torah, one of the so called God. -
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No civilized person likes a dicta- i
a
lesser holidays, has become
In the case of Antiochus, it was
great favorite lately in Russia. tor. We don't even like the so-
far
more
than
tone. He set out
Jews there who apparently had called benevolent dictators. if there
arrogantly. tyrannously, to remove
forgotten they were Jews some- are such things.
HOLIDAY GREETINGS
every vestige of Judaism. He for-
how seem to gather in Moscow and •
It recalls to us a Yiddish story
bade Jewish worship, set up idols
other Russian cities on that joyful about a young fellow who was in
and even a pig in the temple and
day and dance in the streets to financial trouble. He wrote his fa-
he had a huge army support him
honor the Torah. It may be that ther asking for help, winding up
and a whole belt of victories t:- ■
Simhat Torah will prove the the letter with the sentence. "Send
give him courage. How can you go
savior of Judaism in Russia. The me a hundred dollars."
against a force like that?
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The father couldn't read, so an
It took a weak old man to do the
praying but how can they suppress acquaintance read the son's letter
,
job!
In
a
little
obscure
farmim
d•mcing? Such is the power of joy.
town named Modin, an old man
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named Mattathias said he would
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be darned if he would worship the
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Hanuka is a joyful holiday. So is industrial complex are tackled by
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Holiday Good Cheer
Purim, but Hanuka is better than Richard J. Barnett, co-director of
Purim because it is eight days long the Institute for Policy Studies, in
"The
Economy
of
Death,"
pub-
and Purim is only one day.
We are on a diet, so we can't eat lished by Atheneum.
"One important thing a citizen
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A Happy and Healthy Hanuka
Best Wishes For A Happy
He adds that "citizens who re-
Haallka
lentlessly demand the truth have
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taken a giant step toward the re-
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covery of their freedom."
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It is necessary to have a minyan
(a forum of 10 males) present for
the wedding ceremony.
The Talmud (Ketubot 7:B)
traces this requirement from the
Biblical account of the marriage
which took place between Ruth
and Boaz (Ruth 4:2). There the
Bible mentions that Boaz sum-
moned 10 men. Basically, the re-
quirement of 10 men indicates
that marriage is an occasion which
involves the community.
It was felt necessary to have
the community officially informed
of the fact that a marriage was
taking place by requiring a min-
yan to be present. This was one
way of making the marriage public
knowledge so that all would take
due notice and govern themselves
accordingly, respecting the newly-
weds as man and wife. It also
provided an opportunity for the
community to cheer the new coupie
which is a basic responsibility of
a community towards the new
bride and groom.
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Much is introduced here — the
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