Added: 04/03/2007 |
There are many holidays that people celebrate and that are meaningful to them. For instance I love to celebrate Thanksgiving, Passover, and Chanukkah. Besides the religious and historical significance of these three holidays these three holidays allow me to celebrate with friends and family plus eat some great food.
There are many holidays that people celebrate and that are meaningful to them. Many of my friends love to celebrate Easter, Christmas, and Thanksgiving.
Here is another funny little tidbit about my experience with other and the Jewish holiday of Chanukkah. I remember moving to Santee California from Chicago Illinois when I was seven. My mom and I went into a store to purchase some Christmas and Chanukkah greeting cards. We couldn’t locate the latter type of greeting card so we asked a salesperson where the Chanukkah greeting cards were located. What happened next surprised me, but not in a good way. The salesperson looked at us as if we had asked when the next plane for Mars was leaving instead of just asking about greeting cards. The salesperson asked us what Chanukkah was and when it was celebrated because she had never heard of this Jewish holiday. At this point, my mom and I were a little concerned that the woman hadn’t ever seen or talked to people who were Jewish before us. Therefore, my mom tried to explain the Jewish holiday of Chanukkah. I think that my mom’s explanation of this wonderful Jewish holiday confused her even more. This is because she shrugged her shoulders and told us that not only were there no Chanukkah greeting cards but she also said that she didn’t even know how to spell the word Chanukkah. This didn’t surprise either of us because there are many different spelling of the word Chanukkah. However, many people spell this word wrong, even some Jewish people who love celebrating Chanukkah each year in order to retell this historical and religious story while eating the traditional foods and playing the traditional games of the wonderful Jewish holiday of Chanukkah. In fact, I love eating potato pancakes, chocolate, blintzes, and lighting the menorah for eight nights. In addition, I have even made a dredel out of clay in my Hebrew school art class. I don’t think that spelling the word Chanukkah is as import as learning about the Jewish culture through the fascinating story of Chanukkah. By the way both Chanukkah and Channukah are the wrong spelling of this word. Hanukah is spelled like this. Have a happy Hanukah.
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