Chanuccà Festival of 5770 (11-18 December 2009)
Chanukkah or Feast of Lights takes place during the Jewish month of Kislev, which usually falls in December.
This year the festival of Chanukkah is celebrated from 11 to 18 December 2009. On 11 December, the first candle is lit
Vayeshev Shabbat and holidays of Chanuccà (December 11, 2009)
Rav Alberto Di Sermoneta
rarely happens that this week when we read the Torah portion falls first day of the feast of Chanuccà.
In fact, this year, the first day of Chanuccà, falls on the Sabbath and for this reason that we will be the first day of the last Sabbath, that is, two Saturdays in the same party. In the Torah portion of Jeshev
It is the story of Joseph, son of Jacob and the woman he loved most - Rachel.
are written in the Torah, just in the first verses of the Torah, "elle toledot Ja'akov Josef
....."" This is the story of Jaakov, Josef "and from there begin to tell the story of Joseph.
All readers were expecting instead that the Torah had begun to tell the story of Jacob, or at least part of it.
Rashi, in his commentary, explains that everything that happened to Jacob, happens to Joseph in his life, namely:
Jacob went into exile outside the land of Canaan, Joseph also go into exile outside the land of Canaan.
Jacob was wanted by his brother to be killed, because of the blessing of the birthright, but Joseph will be sought after by his brothers to be killed because of preference by their father against him.
Jacob lived away from his father for twenty years, Joseph also lived away from his father for twenty years and so on for other things.
Although the conduct of Joseph, who has studied in depth can annoy: He is a seventeen he behaved like a real baby: (Rashi says that rouge, passing the color on the eyes), reported the rumors of his brothers to his father, was placed in a position of not being liked, so much so that at some point is also taken by his father, despite this, he is not called unlike its predecessors with the title of "AV"
"patriarch" but to tzaddik - Right.
Perhaps this deadline may be considered minor compared to that of the patriarch, as was the patriarch Abraham, but also called directly from C tzaddik.
The tzaddik, according to other commentators have more burden the patriarch, he is the one that endangers her life to save his people or even humanity.
According to all the commentators, there is a very deep connection between the feast of Chanuccà, just that we begin to celebrate Shabbat and the Torah portion of jeshev goes, better to say there is a very deep link between life and work of Joseph and the life and work of the Maccabees, the heroes of the Jewish people whose deeds are celebrated just Chanuccà.
We all know the heroic deeds of the Hasmonean brothers, later called by the nickname of the Maccabees for their strength and tenacity to fight the enemy.
Chanuccà celebrates the feast of the adjustment of a confused state, caused by Hellenic culture that sought to inculcate their customs and traditions to the peoples they conquered and then also to the Jewish population that lived in the land of Israel. The Maccabees
through their rebellion against those pagan traditions, which, inter alia, had met with much success even among some Jews (especially in the noble classes), manage to turn the "lights" to shed light on ancient Jewish traditions that were observed continuously since the time of our patriarchs, thereby restoring even the cult of monotheism.
Their Jewish identity was never hidden, even at the cost of losing their lives in the same way as when they sold Joseph in Egypt - a country known by all peoples of the time for its dedication to the proverbial paganism, since a slave in Potiphar's home minister, is in a position to prison by Potiphar's wife lied about why he had tried to rape her, both from the Viceroy of Egypt, but deny his Jewish roots and traditions "na'ar 'ivri Anokhi" "I am a jew boy," even at risk of their lives.
Paganism is the symbol for qualifying on his brother man, the denial of humanitarian law and the supremacy of power over the other (we just think only on the establishment of human sacrifice used by those people or the institution of slavery), Judaism it is the exact opposite.
Chanuccà, we could define the exaltation of monotheism and the defeat of the charges on a man his neighbor, if every free nation has its own flag, the flag of monotheism can be sure the lamp Chanuccà, which will start from Friday evening to light for eight consecutive nights.
SOME RULES OF CHANUCCHIA on turning '
chanucchià The lamp is a special eight arms that can be oil or candles, plus one arm, middle, or placed far from the other, called "shammash" (servant) that is used to light the other candles, where the oil is chanucchià, is used to turn the candle that is used to trace the tefillà the evening of Tisha 'BE AV.
It should be placed in front of a window into the street, to make manifest to all, what happened at the time of the Maccabees. The
chanucchià can be switched on when it's from evening until late at night (the halakha says-laps until people on the street). If by chance you forget to turn it on, it can turn the next morning, but without reciting the blessings.
The blessings for the lighting of the lamp are as follows:
BARUCH ATTA 'AD. ELOHENU Melekh Olam ASHER HAS KIDDESHANU BE THE MIZVOTAV VEZZIVVANU ADDLIK CHANUCCA NER SHEL '
BARUCH ATTA 'AD. ELOHENU Melekh Olam SHE HAS 'ASA' Nissim THE HEM HAS JAMIM AVOTENU BA BA ZEMAN HA ZE '.
Only the first night it is said:
BARUCH ATTA 'AD. ELOHENU Melekh Olam SHE HAS ECHEJANU JEMANU KI VE VE HI GHIANU ZEMAN HAS THE ZE '. The
chanucchià turns from right to left and every night you add a light or a candle more, for all eight days.
year in which the first and the last night falls on a Friday evening, the chanucchià be turned on before entering the Sabbath, so before powering home in the Shabbat candles.
At Temple, it is turned on immediately after to get thinner, so that is still very day.
Saturday evening, the second evening, the lights went out completely after it is Shabbat;
in Temple, according to the Italian rite, just after the "kaddish titkabal" Havdalà before then (as a formula is considered "likely hivdalta" "You have a separate" that we recite in the 'starch' arvit Saturday night, a formula havdalà), while at home, after the havdalà, to be sure that the Sabbath is already out.
all other nights, LA CHANUCCHIA 'is switched on after dark.
FOR POSSIBLE TO TURN EVEN IN THE TEMPLE, THE CHANUCCHIA ', both the first and the last evening, the beginning of TEFILLA' FRIDAY 'sera December 11 FRIDAY AND 'NIGHT December 18, will not be' at 19.30 as usual, BUT 'AT 16.00 IN POINT.
TO ALL OF YOU BE MY MOST 'WARM GREETINGS chag ha Urim SAMEAC
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