#chag hanukkah sameach

[casavanse]

She'hecheyanu, v'kiy'manu, v'higiyanu laz'man hazeh.

Chag Sameach!

[icemankazansky86]

It is Hanukkah my Jews

[celticjewish]

The last night! Hope everyone had a great Chanukah!

There’s a reason I opted for pink candles this time. I had a bit of a health scare this year when I went for an annual appointment and the doctor found a lump in my breast. I was a huge ball of anxiety. Especially since someone in my family already went through breast cancer. A week or two later when I went for my sonogram they thankfully said there was nothing of concern there and I needed no follow up.

Later that same day I went shopping with my sister and found a pack of pink Chanukah candles that a portion of the proceeds go to an organization that helps Jewish people who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. I thought it was the perfect way to celebrate my clear results!

The organization is called Sharsheret if anyone is interested. I’ll be doing some additional research into it myself.

I encourage everyone with breasts to do your monthly self examinations! If you haven’t this is your reminder to do it today!

Here’s a link to show you how!

Lots of rambling but it felt important to share.

Chag Sameach! 🩷🕎

[n7sloth]

My first hanukkah, my first menorah, my first lighting! ❤️

[supervor]

7th night

[starfleetshrimps]

chag Hanukkah sameach to all my lovely jewish friends who support palestine. and not the rest of you.

in palestine there is no festival of the lights, much of their power grid is down, they are being murdered. no one should have to spend hanukkah (or any other days ever) under a sky red from bombs.

free palestine. chag sameach.

[pretty-fly-for-a-sky-guy]

Happy Hanukkah!

Happy Hanukkah!

[lonicera-caprifolium]

Happy Hanukkah to everyone celebrating! 💫✨✨✨

(with memories from the past few years)

[thegorgonist]

Happy 8th night of Hanukkah! Tonight is a wrap on the holiday. Also happy new years! I did manage to make my experimental half-brussels sprouts latkes last night, despite being sick right through the whole holiday season. Thanks for following along with me and I hope I shared a little light!

[evilkitten3]

you may be out of touch, but this lamp ain't outta oil!

[infiniteglitterfall]

This is so cool and interesting

In what they called an “archaeological Hanukkah miracle,” a University of Haifa team discovered on Friday a rare hoard of some 160 coins, dating from the Hasmonean period, during a dig in the Jordan Valley, the university said Sunday.

The coins were discovered in what is thought to have been a roadside station, on what was then a main road along Nahal Tirzah that ascended to the Alexandrion Fortress, also known as Sarbata, north of Jericho in what is now the West Bank.

The coins were dated by experts to the reign of “King Alexander Jannaeus, whose Hebrew name was Jonathan… He reigned from 104–76 BCE. He was the son of Johanan Hyrcanus, [and] the grandson of Simon the Hasmonean (brother of Judah Maccabee),” the statement said, noting that the Alexandrion Fortress, near where the coins were discovered, was built by Jannaeus. ...The students and volunteer excavators were very excited to find such a Hasmonean hoard, especially during the Hanukkah holiday,” the researchers said. Dr. Yoav Farhi, part of the research team and an expert on ancient coins, had arrived on Friday at the dig site with a pack of “Hannukah Gelt,” the chocolate coins covered in gold foil that are a ubiquitous feature of the holiday, explained Dr. Shay Bar of the University of Haifa’s Zinman Institute of Archaeology.

Farhi passed them out to the staff and said, “This is so that we will find some coins today, and four or five hours later, the coins were found,” Bar said on Sunday, speaking to The Times of Israel....

This style of coin dates from 80/79 BCE and is extremely rare, the researchers said, who added that the cache is also one of the largest collections of ancient coins ever discovered in the Holy Land. According to Bar, in addition to the collection of 160 coins, other Hasmonean period coins were also discovered during the excavation, bringing the total number of coins found at the site to over 200.

...The site includes a mikvah (ritual bath), a cistern for storing water, and other buildings. It’s likely that the room where the coins were discovered was used as a kitchen or for food preparation, Bar said. “We discovered a Hasmonean site, on the ascent to Sarbata… It’s very Jewish. It’s important because this site was active for a limited period. The moment we have these coins, dating to the time of Alexander Jannaeus, with all the other finds there… it gives us a very exact time capsule, which doesn’t always happen in archaeology,” Bar said.

[flaticeball]

a jew review of: nhl team happy hanukkah posts

good evening and chag sameach to my hanukkah-celebrating pals out there on hockeyblr. today i bring you: a non-comprehensive and entirely subjective review from one (1) jewish hockey fan of the graphics posted by various nhl teams in celebration of the first night tonight. i definitely missed some, and some teams didn't post any at all, so it's a bit patchwork. here we go.

vancouver canucks: this is an extremely serviceable graphic. love the blurred dreidels to give the effect that they are spinning. very funny. props for the detail that there is a shadow of the menorah on the ice. straightforward. icemenorah is a themeTM but some did it better than others and this is a classic. 7/10

post continues under the cut for the sake of your dash and mine.

carolina hurricanes: obsessed with what the canes have done here though i cannot comprehend it. the weird techno style textured background. the out of focus magen david around. THE HURRICANES. IN HEBREW. WITH THE LITTLE CANES LOGO THING I FORGET THE NAME OF ON THE HEI? INCREDIBLE. points for creativity. overall baffling vibes. 6/10.

pittsburgh penguins: this is just adorable. you hired someone to draw this. spectacular work, guys. it's giving a bit of 'we browsed the target hanukkah deco section for inspo' but it's too adorable for me to care. it's team themed, it's hockey themed, it's holiday appropriate. love everything going on here. they get points for doing what very few other teams are doing and remembering this is night one, so only one candle is lit. most everyone else is getting a bit a head of themselves. 9/10.

washington capitals: and here we have another edition of the icemenorah, with a minimalist twist. this graphic screams 'oh fuck wait is that tonight' which to be fair is also how i, a jew, felt about realizing tonight was the first night of hanukkah. could'a done more, but it's perfectly fine. 6/10.

new jersey devils: this fucks. it's got devils themes. it's got a cool style. it's got vibes. it's got: more hockey stick menorahs which i am always excited about. that shamash candle is a graphic design nightmare but other than that i am all on board. 8/10

vegas golden knights: i love the gold foil effect and that you remembered there was more to hanukkah than candles, that's nice, as is involving the other affiliates! however. where are the vibes. this is not the vgk wishes you a chag sameach, this is a greeting card i got on etsy. 6/10 just bc i KNOW you can do better. where's the neon, babes.

los angeles kings: oh this is fun. it's icemenorah: WITH A TWIST. the art style is cute, it's got plenty of hockey theme, it's also very obviously LA-y, i'm giving them points for this one. the shadow is insane but that's okay, it's ~stylistic. it's cute. 7/10. UPDATE: definitely AI. boo hiss. 0/10.

montréal canadiens: this is probably my favourite for sheer vibes. you got: levitating icemenorah. you got: action-shot candle lighting. you got: remembering this is night ONE. you got: the implication that the torch is the shamash candle????? you got: JOYEUSE HANOUKKA!!!!!!!! (and like happy hanukkah or whatever i guess). obsessed. it's so funny. it's amazing. 9/10.

[captain-acab]

The Jewish samurai swiftly picks up the shamash then places it back down in one smooth motion

two seconds later the rest of the candles on the menorah all ignite in a clean line

[lightofraye]

Merry Christmas, one and all. Joyous holiday to those who do not celebrate Christmas. And to my Jewish followers, Chag Hanukkah Sameach.

SUPERNATURAL | 3.08 – “A Very Supernatural Christmas”

[bpdlottiematthews]

First night.

[melodraca]

HAPPY HANUKKAH! I hope everyone had a wonderful eight crazy nights!

Bonus under the cut: melted candles and my chanukah orange