Reminder for my non-jewish followers that don’t really know what Hannukah [and all the other attempts to translate it over] is about, think the following:
Ostensibly people just kinda eat fried things and light candles and contemplate. Yes. But its also “The current ruling party demanded we not be jewish, forced conversion and desecrated our places of worship. So, its time for a rebellion to kill the occupation and take our shit back. Welp we did it, but they fucked up the temple real bad and the way time works says we won’t have the right things to keep our sacred fire burning. We can use this oil we found but it probably won’t last the whole time we need to wait. Wait, holy shit it’s lasting all night! x 8 nights. Lets fry some things and make it a holiday.”
Its another “They tried to kill/convert us all, they failed, lets eat and remember this keeps happening” holiday.
No, its not jewish xmas. No its not anywhere near our be all end all holiday. It IS however a very good “eat food in winter and focus on the light in the world etc in the middle of the winter” thing.
Its hard to put words to it, but like. I just wanna let it settle in that its nothing like xmas
