Hannukah spellings and Hannukah Lights as the world grows darker

 Happy Channukah! Dry Bones Golden Oldie, by Sali the LSW. (Long Suffering Wife). I am giving you 2 cartoons today.

Here is a Dry Bones cartoon from 2014. It touches on the topic of the many different ways that we spell this holiday.

I am also going to put up a second cartoon that is more in spirit with this day when we morn the victims of the horrific attack and murders of the Jews on Bondi Beach in Australia last night.

Here is a quote from a Dry Bones Blog from 2016.

" Hanukka, Hanukkah, Chanukah, Chanukkah,Hanucca, . . .

Every year, for the past 43 years of doing the daily Dry Bones cartoons, I face the same mind-cracking question; how to spell the name of our eight-day Festival of Lights!

The Hebrew word Chanukah (or Hanukka, Hanukkah, Chanukka, Hanucca,) means dedication and it celebrates our re-dedication of our Holy Temple in Jerusalem after its having been defiled by the Syrian/Greeks occupiers."

And here, if you are interested, is a quote from a long time friend of mine and of Yaakov and a long time fan and follower, that she left as a comment on this cartoon from Yaakov's Facebook page.

It is much more detailed and educated about the different spellings than my previous quote from Yaakov.

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" Ever wonder why "Hanukah" has so many different spellings? Chanukah; Chanuka (no "h" on the end); Hanukkah, Hannukah, Hanuka...

Well, in Hebrew it's het, nun, vav, kaf, hey. How do we write the het (pronounced sorta like the "ch" in German "nach") in English? One way is, as we see, "ch."

But that's not quite accurate, because het isn't pronounced quite the same as "nacht." So sometimes it's written just with an "h"... but that's not right, because it IS more guttural. So sometimes it's written with an "h" that has a dot under it (AOL isn't going to let me do that). Personally, I really like "kh" for het and "ch" for chaf. But I think I'm kinda alone here. 

Confused yet? And the doubled "n," or "k," and adding or leaving off the "h" on the end... well, depends who was trying to spell it when!

But any way you spell it, it's a joyous holiday! So spin your dreidel, eat your latkes, sing Mi Yimalel, and have a great time!" 

And here is another Hanukkah cartoon from Dry Bones in 2007, indeed, as the world seems to grow darker, we light the darkness.

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