Lutherans and Hanukkah

Top 2. Dec 9, 2004 7:31 PM

» ladybug6472 - Lutherans and Hannukah

I read somewhere where the story of the oil lasting 8 days is a Talmudic tradition. I enjoyed your article.

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Top 3. Dec 10, 2004 6:31 AM

» H2O - Re: Lutherans and Hannukah

In response to Lutherans and Hannukah posted by ladybug6472:

Thank you. I know I looked for it in the Apocryphal books when I wanted to teach a class on Hanukkah at church, which Jesus celebrated as the Feast of Dedication, but the books of the Maccabees didn't have the miracle of the oil, simply that the celebration lasted eight days.

John

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Top 4. Dec 10, 2004 7:54 AM

» ladybug6472 - Lutherans and Hannukah

Another theory is that since the Jews were not able to observe Succoth - the Feast of Tabernacles - at the appropriate time that year, they used this as an opportunity for the 8-day festival. In the final analysis, who knows.

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Top 5. Dec 10, 2004 2:19 PM

» biogardener - Origin of 'gelt'

Yiddish is derived from the Swabian dialect, i.e. the area around Stuttgart. The Yiddish word "gelt" is exactly the same word in Old High German, "gelt" which became Middle High German "geld." The verb associated with it is "gelten" which means to be worth or to be considered as something or someone.

The German word "Gold," however, although related, has come to us by a different route. The Indo-Germanic word is "ghel," meaning shiny, and the English word yellow is derived from it. So the Yiddish word "gelt" is the same and has the same meaning as the German word "Geld," not "Gold." The old European currency, "Gulden" is the adjective derived from the word "Gold," because that is what it was originally made of.

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Top 6. Dec 13, 2004 6:36 AM

» H2O - Re: Origin of 'gelt'

In response to Origin of 'gelt' posted by biogardener:

Traute:

Thanks for the insight!

John

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