Let Me Take This Opportunity To Share The Festival of Lights “HANNUKKAH” With You

Let me take this opportune to share The Festival of Lights “HANNUKKAH” with you

Posted By: Deacon Ron Gray
Sunday, December 25th 2016 at 6:16PM

Thank You......I understand that this SUBJECT is dear to you....'blackHebrewIsraelite'

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Hanukkah (Also transliterated Chanukkah)........... is a Jewish holiday

In Hebrew, the word "hanukkah" means "dedication."

Hanukkah History

In 168 B.C.E. the Jewish Temple was seized by paganGreek soldiers and dedicated to the pagangod Zeus.

In 167 B.C.E. the paganGreek emperor Antiochus made the observance of Judaism .... punishable by death.

He also ordered all Jews to worship paganGreek gods.

paganGreeks ordered the Jewish villages to bow down to a paganIdol.. and eat the flesh of a pig

both practices that are forbidden or Haraam to Jews.

According to Jewish law, Hanukkah is one of the less important Jewish holidays.

Hanukkah has become ..popular in modern practice because of its proximity to Christmas.

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Let us Pray that OUR.... "DEDICATION" at BIA, is for the Benefit of the African American Family

------------- Glorious Dedication of African Asian Chanukkaah to All BIA members......

At sundown Sunday, Jews around the world lit candles in observation of the first night of Hanukkah. there are a lot of black Jews. Ethiopian Jews are well-known, and in the United States there are at least 200,000 black American Jews, some who are biracial with a Jewish parent, some who converted and some who belong to mostly black Hebrew congregations that formed at the turn of the last century.

For all American Jews, Hanukkah's pretty much the same thing, which is that it's not a major Jewish holiday. The real holidays are the Jewish New Year and Day of Atonement in the fall, and Passover in the spring. But because of Christmas, everyone expects you to be celebrating something in December and giving presents, so Hanukkah fits the bill, especially since it's a celebration of freedom. It marks the overthrow 2,300 years ago of the Assyrians from Israel and a rekindling of the eternal light in the sacked temple. There was only enough oil to light it for one day, but--and this part is the miracle--it lasted for eight. That's why Hanukkah is eight days with an eight-branched candelabra called a menorah lit each night, one candle for each day.