If you want to learn more about Hanukkah, then here are some facts you probably didn’t know about the Jewish holiday: Hanukkah is the celebration of the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the second century B.C. It is called Hanukkah, as this is the Hebrew word for dedication.
Wait. Christmas and the first night of Hanukkah fall on the same day this year? December 25th! Thank God! Finally! Can we please keep this up?!
Gone were the sentimental sounds of scratchy Christmas records as I dove into stuffed stockings. Instead, as a young mom, I meticulously sorted gifts into eight piles for Hanukkah: at least one gift for each night for each of my four kids. Inevitably, at least one of the kids was disappointed on any given night. And my brain was fried. Thanks to those freezing street corner evenings, I still feel a jolt of pride whenever I can lower the price of anything.
My old ornaments were resurrected as I carefully placed them on prickly, forest-smelling branches, hoping the ornament’s weight wouldn’t pull it down onto the needle-strewn floor. Family traditions: upheld! Then one year, when we headed over to my dad’s to celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah, there was a new arrival: a Hanukah tee-pee! Inside the white, towering tee-pee were blue, white, and silver-wrapped gifts in one big pile, all of our gifts were mixed up so we had to dive in to find our own.
I wear a Jewish star necklace. I started an On Being Jewish Now Substack, edited original essays and spoke all over the world to unite the tribe. I’ve become an accidental activist, something I couldn’t have seen coming. I can see why doing so during the period of the Second Temple was heralded as a miracle two millennia ago. We could use another one now, as we tear wrapping paper to shreds and block out the atrocities.
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