Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 3, 1964 Page: 4 of 24
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Plain Talk
.. by Alfred Segal
“our Temple in Jerusalem in
that era, had been defiled by the
heathen Syrians, and it was our
Maccabees who by military cour
age brought Jerusalem back to
religious freedom in the world
. . . and our One God was re-
established. And this occasion
keeps on being celebrated by us
there was only enough of oil to
light up in the Temple for eight
days in a candlestick until more
holy oil could be obtained. Yes,
land that’s why we observe Cha-
nukah with lighted candle in our
living rooms each evening thru
eight days . . . each evening an"
additional candle until there are
each year . . . even the several eight candles lighted in our
thousands of years later, in the
CHANUKAH holy days called Chanukah. Oh,
A yonng friend of n^ie writes to me: “Please tell us all a- Mr. Segal, there’s no occasion of
bout Chanukah. (He’s still young enough, to be a second-year stu- other religions that keeps on be-
‘dent . . . which he is.) renumbered that long Yes,
we celebrate it with lights m
¥ “Oh, sir,’’ he goes on to say, “I myself have known all about our hpm<®. My mother lights up
fe Chanukah since I was) a small kid, but there are so many other oor living room with an addi-
young ones who don’t know the meaning of Chanukah. So, please, tional candle, each of the eight
•Ssir, report in your column on Chanukah toward the Jewish educa- evenings of Chanukah,
gtion of fellow-students of mine in the university of our city.”
3 After I had received his letter I called up this lad and said
gto him: “Please, write a column for me about Chanukah. It’ll be
£ inspiring for Jewish parents to hear from a young Jew who know?
all about Chanukah.”
g “Thanks! Thanks!” he exclaimed, and a week later I received
'j§ this essay about Chanukah from him . . . and I thank him for'
^writing this column for me . ,
2 “Yes, Chanukah,” he writes,
g “Chanukah a sacred day
9 which has to do with religious
^freedom. It celebrates the first
, occasion in which a deprived
2 people were returned to the ser-
3 vice of God . . . we Jewish peo-
3 pie, that is . . . we Jews who
H far, far back there had been de-
prived of our religious rights.
toward Chanukah.
You might say that Chanukah
commemorates the first Fourth
of July in the world.”
He goes on to say this first
holy day for freedom in the
world observes a Jewish occa-
sion which occurred in the year
168-165 before the Christian era.
“Yes,” the young man reports,
And this bright young man
goes on to ask me: “Do you re-
member, Mr. Segal, how the
Temple in Jerusalem was rede-
dicated after the heathens had
been driven out? Do you re-
member? . . . And he goes on toi
report to all of those of us who
don’t remember.
“Yes,” he says, “when the
Temple was rededicated only a
very small jar of the Temple’s
holy oil was found in it, and
house.
And each evening of Chanu-
kah time my mother sfrwll'c 'be-
fore these candles saying h pi*ay-
er, her hands sacredly 'bb Ver
forehead. My father himself
stands before the candles and
speaks a blessing: ‘Blessed ayt
Thou, O Lord our God, King of
the Universe who has sanctified
us by They commandments and
commanded us to kindle the
light of Chanukah. Blessed art
Thou O A.ctt’d our God, who
wroughtet miracles for our fa-
thers in days of old at this sea-
son . . . We kindle these lights
on account of the miracles, the
deliverances and the wonders
which Thou didst work for our
fathers. During all the eight
days of Chanukah these lights
are sacred, and we are only to
may give thanks unto Thy name
for Thy miracles, Thy deliver-
ances and Thy wonders.”
(Yes, yes, I owe this entire
column to this young man whose
parents, besides themselves be-
ing of Godly feeling have been
bringing their boy up toward
such understanding. I’m handing
on their noble example to all
parents.)
And the young man goes on
to say: “At the Chanukah ser-
vice before the candle lights, my
father recites one of the Psalms
. ‘Son,’ he says to me, ‘lis-
ten carefully to this’ and he
reads Psalm 30, saying: ‘I will
extol Thee, O Lord; for Thou
aast drawn me up ?nd hast not
made my foes to rejoice over
me . . . Sing praise unto the
Lord, O, ye, His loving ones, and
give thanks to His holy name.
For His anger is but for the
moment; His favor is for a life-
time . . . Hear, O Lord, and be
gracious unto me; Lord, be Thou
my helper. Thou hast turned for
me my mourning into dancing;
Thou hast loosed my sack-cloth
and guided me with gladness:
to the end that my glory may
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