#channukiah

[jewreallythinkthat]

She is finished 🕎

[classical-memeician]

An update!!

For those asking, the woods are (outward going in, symmetrically): cocobolo, bacote, olive, black palm and tulip. The base is black walnut!

Only a final sand and oiling the finish to go :D

So I'm making a channukiah for next year's channukah and the arms are finally done - turned, sanded, oiled up and ready to go

[thejewitches]

Channukah Ritual Guide | Digital Download

Experience a meaningful Channukah this year with our comprehensive digital guide for Diasporic celebrations.

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Included within are the three traditional blessings said over channukah candles; Available in Hebrew, English, and with the Ashkenazi transliteration for easy usage for all!

A few food suggestions from across the Diaspora as well as a simple, no-mess latke recipe if it is your first time!

Instructions for Dreidel divination!

Discussions of Diasporic Jewish traditions

A Chanukah glossary

What spelling is best?

Hillel Vs. Shammai

Menorah, Channukiah? Candles? Oil? Answers to all that & more!

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[maxarat]

Chag Sameach! (Sorry my channukiah is so makeshift 😭)

[girlactionfigure]

I assume most of you recognise the famous picture on the left of a Channukiah with Nazi flags in the background from the 1930s.

You may not know this but the Channukiah's owners, Rachel and Dr. Akiva Posner, escaped Germany in 1933 & arrived in British Mandate Palestine in 1934. Their Channukiah survived the war, and was donated to the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum.

Every year on Channukah, the Posner family takes the Channukiah and uses it.

Last night, it was lit in the heart of Gaza by one of the descendents of the Posner family as shown in the image on the right.

[bioticgoddess]

Friend... where did you find this epic beauty.

I bought the best Chanukiah today

[cannedbeefaroni]

im thinking about... burt fabelman lighting the channukiah... saying a hebrew prayer... sitting at the kiddush table eating challah... singing with his kids in hebrew... j-j-jewish dad...... hnnnggg ashkenazi man in glasses and white button up.... peter griffin-core... so handsome... 

[rabbicreditor]

What if placing the channukiah in the window is more than an outward projection of the miracle of Jewish revival? What if the proximity of the outside world is also meant to provoke inner reflection for a People scarred with the impact of a harsh history? What's 'out there' has often been (and, to our great sadness, remains) scary, a threat to life, to sanity, to well-being. Who would choose such a hostile environment? And perhaps that is the majesty of this annual winter ritual, timed to pierce the darkest time of year with expanding, ephemeral, slivers of light. Perhaps Jewish tradition is speaking in both directions, in and out, demanding bravery of inhabitants of wounded inner worlds, and also demanding dignity from a world that has mistreated some of us. On this final day of Channukah, may we hear these twin calls and meet once again: in the light. #channukah #finalmorning #reflection #ShineALight https://www.instagram.com/p/CmoucGRLAWN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[cosmik-homo]

“That channukiah isnt kosher!” its ok neither is almost anything else about my lifestyle.

[neta-ilan]

I don't have a window to put it in, or a nice place to display it, but I love my channukiah. Happy second night!

[mickidona]

Praying for a miracle 

Their first channukah alone, together

[thatveganwhiterose]

LAST NIGHT FOR THIS YEAR

[bilgisticallykosher]

How The Sides Celebrate Chanukah

In honor of how many Jewish fanders followed me recently (like...two) here's some Chanukah headcanons under the cut! Also please check out this art for Sides in Chanukah sweaters!!!

Creativitwins have contests on coming up with new dreidel song verses.

Patton tries a different latke variation every year. Always one ingredient that's a bit weird, though.

(Look I see your Patton's a good cook headcanons and I raise you The Man Put Cumin In Spaghetti.)

((That being said I've done some fun twists on latkes, hit me up.))

He also keeps trying to make a sufganilatke each year. The less said about them, the better.

Logan corrects anyone whenever they use the word 'menorah' as opposed to 'channukiah '.

Virgil says "Let's get lit" every night without fail. (Roman: You've never smoked a weed in your life.)

Janus spells Chanukah differently every single time.

So many Chanukah songs. So many different tunes.

Logan gets into the history of the holiday and what lead up to it and we played dreidel so that the Greeks didn't know we were studying Torah, because our belief is what actually led to the holiday in the first place-

Patton also tries different fillings in the sufganiyot "No Remus you can't have Hydrogen Peroxide in your doughnut" and they turn out not bad. They do generally prefer the originals, except for one side who really seems to enjoy the orange marmalade version...

Remus loves regaling everyone with the bloodier Chanukah history. The battle of the Maccabees, the deaths, and Yehudit totally got the Assyrian general drunk on wine and cheese and cut off his f&$#ing head!

Someone uses the phrase "Jewish Xmas" around Logan once.

They did not survive.

(Okay not really, but He Went Off.)

Debates about the best condiment on latkes are commonplace.

Remus, having been forbidden from suggesting anything otherwise inedible, still always gets banned from the conversation.

They'll tolerate "egg salad," but they draw the line at "fermented spoiled fish skin".

Patton and Janus wear "ugly" Chanukah sweaters, but Patton legitimately thinks they're nice, why do people keep calling them ugly?

Logan has a chart of the Shammai lighting. He never does it, but he has it, and just... looks at it. Soon.

EDIT THIS CAME UP IRL, Logan sees someone say that Chanukah ended the previous night when it is. It is still Chanukah. It's the last day of Chanukah, you have been talking about it in chat more than I have, ffs, why do you not know this, this is basic stuff, why are you talking so much about Chanukah when you don't even-

[koshercosplay]

Middle Earth hiddur mitzvah? Dwarfs tend to make a kiddush cup as part of their b'nei mitzvah that the delicately mold and add gems to, before presenting it to their parent(s) or mentor. hobbits love to carve channukiah and Havdalah sets that feature family members and favorite foods. Elves, with their long lives, would shape tree saplings into a living Aron Kodesh.

this??? is so??? beautiful???

the concept of jewish dwarves carving their own beautiful intricate kiddush cups as a rite of passage that's part of their bnei mitzvah... that they will then use... I just... AHH

[seadem-on]

Channukiah created by Emanuele Luzzati

[terefah]

best channukiah ever