The morning news brought a piece about yet another anti-Christmas lawsuit, this one up in Rockland County. Sickening as always, but then came one local woman's quote:
"They've got symbols for Christmas and...um...Hanukah, so it's both sides!"
This was followed by a completely inane question from the reporter about Ramadan, no doubt because the Muslim masses of Rockland are demanding their ages-old custom public displays as well. (The answer was hard to figure out.)
The worst part, of course, was the word "sides." I wonder if the Jews pushing against these displays, and those pushing to include menorahs, realize what they've done:
1. Blown a minor Jewish holiday (one of my favorites) completely out of proportion, and for reasons that are obvious to anyone who realizes what the major Jewish holidays actually are. (We have as much of a tradition of public displays as Muslims do.)
2. As a result of both facts above, turned this fine holiday into "the Jewish Christmas" and reduced one of our oldest religious symbols to a secular one akin to a tree.
3. Performed this perversion ironically on the one Jewish holiday that stands the most opposed to perversions such as this.
4. Made two great religions, in most people's eyes, into nothing more than two "sides" of a fight.
5. Let's not fool ourselves: Made not a few people resent the Jews.
Public menorahs (especially with straight arms, a not unrelated point but which I have other problems with as well) increasingly disgust me. Put up a baby Jesus, put up a tree, put them on public property, and light a menorah in your window.
2 comments:
Ahhhhh...how wise Moreinu HaRav Schach zt"l was when he opposed the group behind all that.
Amen! How true! My God! Dont we have enough wars, corruption, murder, rape, pillaging in the world? We've got to fight the tinsel now? What the hell is wrong with these people?
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