Writer's Block: Festival of Lights
What do you love about Hanukkah?
What I used to like most about Hanukkah is that I didn't have to celebrate it if I didn't want to, because it is such a minor holiday. What I would really, really like is for people stop talking about Hanukkah (because it is reactive to Christmas), and start talking about the High Holidays and Passover at appropriate times. Honestly, my Yom Kippur traditions and Passover are much more important to me than Hanukkah. My zeide's Yom Kippur traditions survived even the Soviet times!
However, what I most like about Hanukkah now is that my kid gets to count the candles every day.
We gave him Hanukkah gelt in 2009 (when he was 3), and he ended up biting each and every coin he could get his hands on in hopes of finding chocolate inside, so we no longer do that.
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