Happy Chanukkah!

Dec 09, 2012 07:18

. . . to all who celebrate!

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kith_koby December 10 2012, 08:01:59 UTC
Thanks! I'm almost done with the next part of Banner of the Damned, so expect a review soon. In the meantime, here are some pictures I took of Hanukiyyot (Menorahs) around our village. They're not very good, but I like them:

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sartorias December 10 2012, 14:31:17 UTC
These are beautiful! I should take a camera along when I walk the dogs--the lady across from us at the old place has an outside menorah that she lights each year--I used to be able to look out my window by my desk and see the lights go on one by one on successive days, glimmering through the olive trees.

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kith_koby December 10 2012, 17:23:37 UTC
Oh, please do! After all, the entire point of Hanukkah candles is spreadign the light and memory of the miracles. Here are two more: the Golden filigree one used in our shul, and the great stone and iron one (it's about 2 meters high, 2 meters long and a meter thick) placed on the lookout at the entrance to our village, where the entire valley below can see it:


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sartorias December 10 2012, 17:29:54 UTC
Oh, how beautiful! I will see what I can manage, then. (After mentioning it, I hope she did it this year--I haven't walked that way the past two days, and she is up there in years--she was putting it up every year when we first moved to the other street in '91.)

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