Thank you very much, ARG220. In my part of the globe, the sun is setting as I type, so I would like to wish a very blessed Solstice to one and all here at the SDMB (I’ll be back in a few days to do the Christmas thing).
Remember new beginnings and the love and care of the Almighty.
There’s a couple of smaller holidays that, to my limited Lutheran knowledge, aren’t celebrated very heavily.
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[li]Thanksgiving[/li][li]Advent[/li][li]Chanukah[/li][li]Christmas[/li][li]Kwanzaa[/li][li]Boxing Day[/li][li]New Year’s[/li][li]Epiphany[/li]
I know Boxing Day isn’t a religious holiday, but it’s still in the season. I’d always assumed these were the multiple holidays that made up the “holiday season.”
“And he, he himself, the Grinch,
carved the roast beast.”
Just a little addition: I spent last Chanukkah in Israel, where it was very much celebrated. Not as much as, say, Pesach or Yom Kippur, but I did get a day off school and there was a sort of ‘festive’ feeling in the air. Chanukkiot in shop windows downtown, people eating sufganyiot - it was really nice. To say that it’s not as important as Shabbatim is wrong. (But it was no bigger than say, Lag b’Omer, which probably very few of you out there have even heard of.)
Also, the idea of ‘celebrating’ Tisha b’Av rather frightens me. “Yay, yay, it’s Tisha b’Av! My favorite holiday!” It’d never happen. I hope.
~Kyla
“You couldn’t fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine.”
Would we ever celebrate Lag B’Omer by cutting down a healhty tree, decorating it for a few days, and then trashing it? I hope not!
P.S.
Just one day off for an 8-day holiday?
Since you know this first-hand, can you please tell us,
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Do Israelis exchange “Chanukah gifts”?
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Is it true that non-religous Israelies wish each other “Happy Yom Kippur”?
Thx 