Fashion in Heaven (page 2)

What is funnier is that there it is not a "menorah." That symbol is a "chanuchiah," the 9-branched candelabra used only for Chanukah.

A menorah has only 7 branches and nothing else, save perhaps pomegranates or symbols of the 12 Tribes. The Magen David is generally included only on decor for Chanukah.

The Chanukah symbol comes from a fabricated legend after the rabbis rejected the books of 1 & 2 Maccabees from the Jewish canon. The so-called failure of the Hasmonean dynasty (it is blamed for marriage into the Herodian family and bringing Levitical kings to the table instead of Judean kings--and thus "cursing" the Jews...thus inventing the need for the Messiah), the military victory of the Hasmoneans was replaced with a "miracle" of God providing 8 days of oil for the lamp in the Temple (the 9th branch holds a lighter). In reality the Hasmoneans merely celebrated Sukkot (the Festival of Booths) two months late due to the fact that the Hellenistic forces had control over the Temple during the autumn months.

Sukkot is an 8-day feast (as are all Jewish holidays), and thus it became a custom to celebrate the victory of re-dedicating the Temple the same day every year with a "second Sukkot" observance.

Because Christians adopted the Alexandrian Septuagint library as the official Old Testament Canon, and it included the books of Maccabees, this made matters worse--not to mention that Jesus as well as the "outcast" Essenes employed the Book of Daniel as prophecy, also written by the Hasmoneans--the real story "had to be hidden."

Thus the victory symbol of the recaptured Temple was transformed by a religious story involving a "miracle," using a prayer for 8 nights that says "God commanded us to light" these lights, when in reality there is no such command nor miracle anywhere.

I know that is not about clothing and maybe not even funny, but there you go.

Fashion in Heaven

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