tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21153604.post3085815961194145176..comments2024-03-10T21:49:37.789-04:00Comments on Adventures in Mama-Land: I hate… “December Celebrations”?!?Tziviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11828930310967808828noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21153604.post-41566086136305343692013-08-19T15:11:16.302-04:002013-08-19T15:11:16.302-04:00I felt slightly like slapping someone when I read ...I felt slightly like slapping someone when I read the word "miracle" in quotation marks. Could they possibly be any more condescending? grrrMollynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21153604.post-5711334347068524812012-12-10T22:43:51.659-05:002012-12-10T22:43:51.659-05:00True - and yet.
And yet, many say, we have an ob...True - and yet. <br />And yet, many say, we have an obligation to promote this holiday like no other. <br />That's why Chabad goes all out, in case you ever wondered why they are up and down the streets in their garish menorah-mobiles.<br />"Publicizing the miracle" is perhaps one of the lesser-known obligations, and logistically, very strange for us, because this goes far against what we think of as most Jews' nature. <br />This publicizing is not limited to Jews - again, as Chabad has shown, we are meant to reach out and say, "God, God, God" and "miracle, miracle, miracle" over and over and over until everybody listens.<br />Now, that doesn't mean saying, "God is on OUR side" as opposed to anyone else's. But if you look at what many of those ancient cultures stood for and you'll see - God is on the side of right, the side of the few over the many if the few are carrying the right message. The side of distinctiveness vs assimilation.<br />My friend and I are pulling out the stops and doing a latkes-and-sufganiyot shindig (with dreidels) at our regular (non-Jewish) homeschool drop-in this week because a) it's fun, b) we can tell the story, and c) people can ask questions, which will hopefully give us a chance to say those "G" and "M" words a few times. ;-)<br />Beautiful <a href="http://glubokii-vdoch.blogspot.ca/2012/12/on-self-image.html" rel="nofollow">bump</a>, by the way - b'shaah tovah!Tziviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11828930310967808828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21153604.post-39591476180465862322012-12-10T21:20:40.607-05:002012-12-10T21:20:40.607-05:00So funny, I was just remarking to my husband this ...So funny, I was just remarking to my husband this morning how none of the Jewish holidays have this "universalist" message which would really appeal to people of other religions and cultures. So, as tempting as it is to invite my non-jewish homeschooling friends to join us for Chanukah, what would we be celebrating? That the Jewish ideas trumped over the popular culture of the day? Or that G-d is on our side?<br /><br />Or pretend that it is all about a party, food and some gifts? Wait, that would be a wrong holiday...breathingspacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08660982658933603531noreply@blogger.com