Chanukah begins this evening

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Years ago when I was working in Providence, RI, we used to look for the Hanukkah car. Apparently some really cool guy decided to put a Menorah on his car. Each day he would have one more light illuminated on it. It was quite the site to see. The menorah was close to 3 feet high, quite a showstopper imho. We always looked for it every day on the drive into Providence. Unfortunately we only saw it 3 or 4 times.

Along this line of thought, I always wondered what the proper spelling is.. Chanukah, or Hanukkah, well, its an ambiguous translation from Hebrew. Ancient languages often times can be troublesome in translation. For Christians located in the Northern US, we struggle, as we don’t have a plural form of you… vs our friends in TX can make a direct translation of Koine Greek to y’all.

If you would like to know more about Chanukah, check out www.chabad.org In this area of the country, there are very few Jewish folks, quite different from my time on the east coast. As such, ugly discrimnation shows up. Its too bad, how are God’s chosen people to know Jesus, if we won’t even talk with them. Here’s another great site Jews for Jesus. Rememeber, Jesus, and a great many of his early followers were Jewish.