Hanukkah
So the sign is on the door and the garden flag has been planted. If all goes well I’ll add the lawn signs in a couple of days. The menorah goes in the window Thursday night, when the holiday starts.
I specifically chose a flag about love.
I hope the message comes through. Love is stronger than hate.
That I have to think this way, in 21st Century America …
But as I told a friend, my grandparents didn’t flee pogroms in Ukraine so that I should hide who I am.
Happy Hanukkah.
ReplyDelete(I saw the funniest thing on the Internet the other day. Someone was complaining about a menorah. The instructions said that the battery might have to be replaced--I guess it was an electronic thing--as it might not last 8 days. And the complaint was: isn't that the point? It's supposed to last 8 days.)
lol exactly!
DeleteI saw a photo on social media recently that humbled me. The Times of Israel did an article on it last year. A menorah in a window. In the background, visible through the window, is a building with a Nazi flag visible. The photo was taken in 1931 in Kiel, Germany. The menorah was lit last year in Berlin, with descendants of the 1931 family who owned the menorah and the President of Germany present. There is a message on the back of the photo “Hanukkah 5692, ‘Death to Judah,’ So the flag says, ‘Judah will live forever,’ So the light answers.’” I am going to do what I normally do. I must not dishonor such courage.
ReplyDeleteExactly. We honor the bravery of the generations that came before.
DeleteI like the flags.
ReplyDeleteCoffee is on.