how? how to "refresh" an old outdated 2000 year old hanuka... with no flying reindeer?
I know that the "contents" and ceremonies of "pesah" passover were altered as detailed below, and very briefly now "the rabbis removed and even forbade the main part: the lamb of "passover offering" not only cancelling=not requiring the lamb in the house [obviously not in temple but also not in house either], but even more the rabbis FORBADE the religious-jews eating lamb on passover" NOTE: they kept the name passover despite no lamb even at home.
so only we secular do eat lamb on passover... as detailed below similarly hanuka should be refreshed. NOT a limited specific date but instead for convenience it is around a natural phenomenon of nature=the longest night of the year and any time convenient between 19-23 december is longest nights so when its easy and convenient for each family for me today 21 was easiest.
the fulfillment of hanuka has 2 main parts "one remembering or noticing the replacement and refreshing" which removed the candles to replace the outdated old custom with a new legend as described below and 2 this one optional but i recommend for the "hard-core" jews called "mehadrin" will add eating ham because "ha" like the letters hanuka and to mark the legend of "hank the hanuka" hog with ham. briefly the legend is this hog rocketed through space to bring the special meteor" to save the hogs in california from a rogue soviet pilot with a powerful hydrogen bomb.
now for the details. 1 emphasizing the refreshment and replacement by cancelling the old outdated candles which we have not needed for light for a hundred years already and it seems wasteful to burn anything, when we could save candles for the "electricity blackout" or not buy/purchase candles at all... it seems a waste.
remembering that the candle is replaced by the refreshed legend of hank the hanuka hog, who saved the hogs of california from the dangerous hydrogen bomb. briefly the legend is hank rocketed through space to bring the special meteorite rock to mark the soviet stealth plane so the US could see it on radar.
also 2 refreshing the date not limited to any specific date but around a NATURAL real phenomenon of nature [in contrast to any date on a man made calendar which is artificial] the "longest nights" of the year for example between 19-23 december when it is convenient for each person separately. a true natural occurrence.
also 3 the hard core will make the effort to buy ham=like the letters "ha" in hanuka to mark the refreshed hanuka and the legend of the hog... for now at least it is not [yet] outlawed in israel and and it is called "pastrama svinaya" in the shops which sell pig meat. and i had the opportunity to fulfill "hanuka refreshed" today and you can too
on the day convenient for each until 23 december because all these long nights are the longest.
QUESTION if we change the contents and ceremony then why keep the name?? Q
answer: BECAUSE that is precisely what the rabbis did to "pesah passover" when they forbade the primary part element of passover=rabbis forbade the religious-jews eating lamb on passover... [as above only secular can eat lamb on passover] cancelling and replacing the lamb called "passover offering" and keeping the name=KEEPING despite removing the lamb with the same name, not required in house not permitted n house... and replaced for different contents with the same name: unhooking the framework from the lamb it referred to, now it includes "more days" than the day of the lamb... and replaced the "forbidden lamb" i emphasize "not even a home prepared lamb" with a different wine ceremony 4 cups of wine scattered around long reading... so very-long is one page of big letter not enuf?? enough
similarly it is time, now 2000 years later, to refresh hanuka for the next few hundred years as explained, and attach different refreshed contents to the same name for the next 500 five hundred years until year 2500 if we humans do not destroy all life on earth by then... if so we can continue with the refreshed an additional thousand years or longer until the next refreshing based on that future culture after one thousand five hundred years or more.
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