Once we had The Temple where we made sacrifices of precious blood and grain. Now we we have temples where people pray, but few truly give offerings. The darkness. The darkness. The darkness. Doesn’t the light always return? The light, it does return? It does return. Hanukkah? חנוכה The lights. We light them. [...]
I was trying to write something new this year for each night, but I decided that I really liked last years — so I’m reposting it. I mean, come on, if Susan Stamberg can do the Thanksgiving cranberry sauce bit for 20 years, I should be able to reuse a good bit for at list [...]
Ohr Somayach :: Chanukah :: The Secret of the Dreidel Who knew? The dreidle is actually an ancient storytelling device! A children’s game, played in the firelight of a cold winter night, the Chanukah Menorah silently glowing in the window… The dreidel. Its four sides spinning around the still point in the turning circle; spinning [...]
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I love this album. I’m a huge fan of the Western Wind Ensembles’ Jewish music collections. I also have their Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sabbath albums. All are narrated by Leonard Nimoy, and his voice is perfect for this. If you’ve read his Shekinah book, you know how well suited he ist to do [...]
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