Bożena Ratter: The way of the first cosmic motifs of Hanukkah is light
date:29 January 2025 Editor: Anna
Regina Lilientalov’s survey of the judaic past took place with large perseverance, studied the Bible in German or Russian translations, as well as in the translation of Pereferkovich and Goldszmida. But in time she learned adequate Hebrew and Aramaic-Caldean that she could handle the first text, most likely for translation control - Dr. Majer Balaban, the creator of modern judaic historiography in Europe, mentions Liliental works, including the five-volume work “Jewish Festivals in the Past and the Present”. The first 3 volumes appeared in the Discourses of the Faculty of Philology of the Polish Academy of Skills in Krakow from 1908 to 1919. (Historical studies, Warsaw 1926)
The 3rd volume begins with Liliental's words: "The feast that I will discuss in this part of my work is called 'Chanuka' and 'Purimu', and Because of its rather secular character, they deserve to be called half-Christmas. And this property of both of these yearly ceremonies, and mainly their interior kinship, which will uncover itself in the course of the work, made me put them next to me and in 1 part I included them.”
Based on the analysis of the sources of work, Lilientalova concludes with: The totally secular, pagan nature of Hanukkah manifests itself besides in that, at a time erstwhile conventional lights are on fire, it is forbidden to survey the books of the saints, which the pious extend throughout 8 evenings, in which they play in the alleged "bells". (Jewish feasts in the past and present volume 3).
Without uncovering any treaty dedicated to Hanuce (as is the case with another national holidays), neither in the Bible (the Karaites do not celebrate Hanukkah) nor in the Talmud, the “archives of judaic views and customs”, the author acknowledges that “the feast of Hanukkah was implanted into the ground old, that it flourished on the ruins of any erstwhile practices, just this time of the year celebrated. It draws attention to the fact that there is no mention to the customized of Hanukkah, namely, the lighting of the lights during the days of eight, in the books that describe the celebrations. And this silence proves that these lights did not mention to the triumph of the Maccabees; and what large importance were here, at least the name of these celebrations, "the feast of lights," utilized by Josephus." If we agree that the Hanukkah lights may be a memorial of the fire lit by the Hebrews during the winter season, we must ask what this fire celebration has caused? Let us consider that Hanukkah falls in the period of Kislew, which is erstwhile the days are shorter and the nights are longer, and that the last days of this vacation coincide with the winter solar solstice. The primal man, having a direct and constant connection with nature, arranged his life according to the phenomena in it; and as the darker night spread over the earth and threatened eternal destruction, his heart mourned, and his thought sought salvation through the fire, which aroused honor and admiration." (Jewish feasts in the past and present volume 3).
It's not very clear how we would choose and experience Christmas if we celebrated the wide arch of Hanukkah, Especially if we want to be in agreement with it, What the Church’s Today’s Magisterium Teaches – says Kard. Grzegorz Ryś.
The answer to the question of what they choose and why Christians experience Christmas card. Grzegorz Ryś will find on page 17 of the 3rd volume “Jewish holidays in the past and present” by Regina Liliental:
"In a sense," says St. Ambrose, "calling the people the holy day of birth The Lord's fresh sun... for by The birth of the Savior... and the brightness of the sun has been renewed. St. Augustine says, "We celebrate this day solemnly, not due to the sun itself, as the infidels do, but due to the 1 who created the sun."
But they did not accept our Savior Jesus as their Messiah, celebrating Hanukkah. We experience Christmas on a wide arch, e.g. Diwali holiday, a light festival that takes place on the fifteenth day of the Hindu period of Kartika. It is right to ask a lacy Christian Europe: “Chanuk or Christmas. Europo! The choice is yours.”
Regina Lilientalova : In 1 way or another, the Hebrews burned ongi fires at the time of the sunrise, at the time the calendar set at the date of 25 Kislew and in which the festival of Hanukkah was established. But the description of this feast, in the Second Book of the Maehabeus, mentions the palm branches carried during this ceremony, the chicks in the greens, which, it seems, do not respect the celebration of the solar solstice, which, according to all probability, was originally Hanukkah. However, all specified moments are characterized by a connection to greenness, which is simply a visible symbol of the life-giving power of the sun, which stimulates the earth's creations to life and growth. According to J. Rostafiński, the druid ceremony described by Pliny was a cult of the rebirth of the sun, and this involves mistletoe, which the priest cut off with a golden sickle. In the December celebration, the symbol of the tree of life is usually a branch of a coniferous plant, due to the fact that it besides preserves herbaceousness in winter, but it is besides for the same reason that the branch of horseradish (ilex) or mistletoe. In Celts, mistletoe had the same symbolic meaning. In Germany, it was customary at the beginning of the winter to solemnly set up branches in the home that would bring happiness to touch.
What was mistletoe for druids and the coniferous plant branch for the residents of the temperate zone, the Palestinians were always green palm trees and cypresses, which were besides celebrated during the large winter celebration. For they believed in the sympathetic union of all things and the manifestation of greenness, serving as a costume of human residences at the time, was considered to be a magical action on the phenomena of nature, a means of speeding up the rebirth of its creative forces.
This Hanukkah customized has completely gone into oblivion, but the first cosmic motives of this vacation are the lights.. (Jewish feasts in the past and present volume 3).
Oh, my God.
