Jesus did not celebrate "Hanukkah". There was no "Hanukkah" at Jesus time. The word 'Hanakkah' comes from neo-Hebrew and was first recorded in 1890–95. Originally instituted as a feast "in the manner of Sukkot (Booths)", it does not come with the corresponding obligations, and is therefore a relatively minor holiday in strictly religious terms. But, in America it has attained major cultural significance, as I mentioned before. It competes with, and is leveraged to diminish Christ Mass.
I think you are referring to the the 'feast of dedication'; also called, 'feast of lights', to which Jesus showed the pharisees He was the light to be celebrated when He said, "I and my Father are one." When Jesus went to the Temple of Herod; this desecrated temple of Solomon, we find:
22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.
23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.
24 Then came the 'pharisees' round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
30 I and my Father are one. -- John 10: 22-30
What did the pharisees do in response to Jesus' spoken truth? They picked up stones to stone Him. From this, it certainly shows Jesus did not "celebrate" the feast of dedication because they did not believe in Him, but instead upheld their self-worship.
Hanukkah begins on Christmas Eve. It is the pretext to force society to abandon Christmas celebration and observe the nebulous "holidays" instead.
The god of Judaism is self-worship. Society is prevented from celebrating the Gospel of Love so Judaism, which is not Hebraism and actually a religion created in response to Christainity, can mark an occasion where 'God' celebrates them. As Michael Hoffman explains, this is an example of how the world has been colonized.
Hanukkah is Talmudism's principal weapon, after the "Holocaust," for injecting the religion of the Talmud into the civic life of our nation during the month of December, at a time when Christianity and its Nativity scenes, are increasingly marginalized or banned completely from the public square, in favor of menorah lightings, "Sanny Claws" and the collective jingle of cash registers and credit card machines. The lower Jesus, Mary and Joseph are made to descend during the Christ Mass season, the higher the Menorah and the Judaic self-worship it represents, rises...
Correct. However, the name "Hanakkah was first used in 1890-95. And as I showed above, Jesus never celebrated [it] and used to show He was the light that was to be celebrated, in contrast to self-worship, which the feast of dedication represented. According to their own academic sources: "Jews began in the 19th century to call themselves Hebrews and Israelites in 1860". – Encyclopedia Judaica 1971 Vol 10:23. Jesus points out these pharisees were not of His sheep (Israelites). "Strictly speaking, it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a 'Jew' or to call a contemporary Jew an 'Israelite' or a 'Hebrew'". -- 1980 Jewish Almanac, 1st chapter "Identity Crisis". (Jewish Encyclopedia IV, 1902, p 335). This is indisputably backed up by the archaeological finds of ancient Israelites and their remains and skulls. Cranial shape and size does not change racially. The Israelite skulls were dolichocephalic (long-headed) with avg. cranial capacity of 1416cc. This is identical to modern northern Europeans. Modern day Jews are brachycephalic (round-headed) with a much smaller avg. cranial capacity of 1266cc. This fact alone convincingly proves modern Jews are not descendants of ancient Israel. "Edom is in modern Jewry" -- The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1925 edition, Vol. 5, Page 41.
“When, years before, John Hyrcanus had forced Judaism on the Idumeans [Edomites] he evidently conjectured that the new, though unwilling, converts could learn to identify their own destiny with that of his people”. -- The Jews, their History, Culture, and Religion, pg. 121.
“The Edomites were conquered by John Hyrcanus who forcibly converted them to Judaism, and from then on they constituted a part of the Jewish people, Herod being one of their descendants”. -- The Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966), pg. 594, AS WELL AS in the The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977) p. 589.
"From this time the Idumeans [read: Edomites] became an inseparable part of the Jewish people”. -- Encyclopedia Judaica Jerusalem, in Volume 8, page 1147
"Jesus celebrated Hanukkah, also known as the festival of lights."
You must recognize the entymology of words to understand the truth. 'Hanakkah' did not exist in Jesus time. At best, it is a forerunner of the 'feast of lights'. Regarding Flavius Josephus, you are correct in his Latin: "Antiquitates Iudaicae", to which he called the 'festival of lights'. Jesus did not celebrate the 'festival of lights', but used the occasion of furthering His ministry. Clearly, Jesus stating to the pharisees, "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one. -- John 10: 28-30, and the reaction of the pharisees picking up stones to stone him is not celebrating "Hanakkah".
Just as Judaism is not Hebraism, Jews are not Israelites, Jesus did not practice 'Judaism' or was he ever Jewish. The 'Wailing Wall' is not the remains of the temple, but the fortress wall of Roman fort Antonia. Even the historian Flavius Josephus, who lived in Jerusalem and knew exactly where Herod's temple once stood, later saw the aftermath of its total destruction, in which he stated that it was like it never existed. Every stone was removed and taken away. After the Roman defeat of the Jews, the location of the temple was lost. There was no worship at the Western wall until well after the time of the Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent came into power in the mid-1500s. He ordered a search of Jerusalem for it. Meir Ben Dov's book -- "The Western Wall" records how it was found. He writes:
"In the days of the king Sultan Suleiman nobody knew the location of the Temple, so he ordered a search of Jerusalem to find it.
One day, a man in charge of the search who had already given up hope, saw a woman coming and on her head was a basket full of garbage and filth.
"What is on your head?" he asked.
"Garbage" she said.
"Where are you taking it." "To such-and-such a place"
"Where are you from?"
"From Bethlehem"
"And between Bethlehem and this place are there no garbage dumps?"
"We have a tradition that anyone who brings garbage and dumps it here is performing a meritorious work"
"This must be it" said the man and ordered many men to clear out the garbage from that spot, garbage which, because of the great time that had passed, had turned the earth at the bottom. And so he uncovered the holy place. He went and told the king who rejoiced greatly and ordered them to clean and sweep (the place) and wash the Wall with rose-water."
Rabbi Eliezer Nahman Puah ( Abboth de-Rabbi Nathan (A) 31. and Medrash Bahidush, 1641 p.31a) is reported to have stated in c. 1540 that in the day of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1495c -1566), the site of the Temple was unknown and he carried out an extensive search for it. A wall was finally found beneath a public garbage heap and everyone rejoiced that the site of the Holy Temple had been found. This is the site of the Wailing Wall today!
Jesus did not celebrate "Hanukkah". There was no "Hanukkah" at Jesus time. The word 'Hanakkah' comes from neo-Hebrew and was first recorded in 1890–95. Originally instituted as a feast "in the manner of Sukkot (Booths)", it does not come with the corresponding obligations, and is therefore a relatively minor holiday in strictly religious terms. But, in America it has attained major cultural significance, as I mentioned before. It competes with, and is leveraged to diminish Christ Mass.
I think you are referring to the the 'feast of dedication'; also called, 'feast of lights', to which Jesus showed the pharisees He was the light to be celebrated when He said, "I and my Father are one." When Jesus went to the Temple of Herod; this desecrated temple of Solomon, we find:
22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. 23 And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. 24 Then came the 'pharisees' round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. 25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me. 26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. 30 I and my Father are one. -- John 10: 22-30
What did the pharisees do in response to Jesus' spoken truth? They picked up stones to stone Him. From this, it certainly shows Jesus did not "celebrate" the feast of dedication because they did not believe in Him, but instead upheld their self-worship.
Hanukkah begins on Christmas Eve. It is the pretext to force society to abandon Christmas celebration and observe the nebulous "holidays" instead.
The god of Judaism is self-worship. Society is prevented from celebrating the Gospel of Love so Judaism, which is not Hebraism and actually a religion created in response to Christainity, can mark an occasion where 'God' celebrates them. As Michael Hoffman explains, this is an example of how the world has been colonized.
Hanukkah is Talmudism's principal weapon, after the "Holocaust," for injecting the religion of the Talmud into the civic life of our nation during the month of December, at a time when Christianity and its Nativity scenes, are increasingly marginalized or banned completely from the public square, in favor of menorah lightings, "Sanny Claws" and the collective jingle of cash registers and credit card machines. The lower Jesus, Mary and Joseph are made to descend during the Christ Mass season, the higher the Menorah and the Judaic self-worship it represents, rises...
Correct. However, the name "Hanakkah was first used in 1890-95. And as I showed above, Jesus never celebrated [it] and used to show He was the light that was to be celebrated, in contrast to self-worship, which the feast of dedication represented. According to their own academic sources: "Jews began in the 19th century to call themselves Hebrews and Israelites in 1860". – Encyclopedia Judaica 1971 Vol 10:23. Jesus points out these pharisees were not of His sheep (Israelites). "Strictly speaking, it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a 'Jew' or to call a contemporary Jew an 'Israelite' or a 'Hebrew'". -- 1980 Jewish Almanac, 1st chapter "Identity Crisis". (Jewish Encyclopedia IV, 1902, p 335). This is indisputably backed up by the archaeological finds of ancient Israelites and their remains and skulls. Cranial shape and size does not change racially. The Israelite skulls were dolichocephalic (long-headed) with avg. cranial capacity of 1416cc. This is identical to modern northern Europeans. Modern day Jews are brachycephalic (round-headed) with a much smaller avg. cranial capacity of 1266cc. This fact alone convincingly proves modern Jews are not descendants of ancient Israel. "Edom is in modern Jewry" -- The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1925 edition, Vol. 5, Page 41. “When, years before, John Hyrcanus had forced Judaism on the Idumeans [Edomites] he evidently conjectured that the new, though unwilling, converts could learn to identify their own destiny with that of his people”. -- The Jews, their History, Culture, and Religion, pg. 121. “The Edomites were conquered by John Hyrcanus who forcibly converted them to Judaism, and from then on they constituted a part of the Jewish people, Herod being one of their descendants”. -- The Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966), pg. 594, AS WELL AS in the The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977) p. 589. "From this time the Idumeans [read: Edomites] became an inseparable part of the Jewish people”. -- Encyclopedia Judaica Jerusalem, in Volume 8, page 1147
"Jesus celebrated Hanukkah, also known as the festival of lights."
You must recognize the entymology of words to understand the truth. 'Hanakkah' did not exist in Jesus time. At best, it is a forerunner of the 'feast of lights'. Regarding Flavius Josephus, you are correct in his Latin: "Antiquitates Iudaicae", to which he called the 'festival of lights'. Jesus did not celebrate the 'festival of lights', but used the occasion of furthering His ministry. Clearly, Jesus stating to the pharisees, "And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one. -- John 10: 28-30, and the reaction of the pharisees picking up stones to stone him is not celebrating "Hanakkah".
Just as Judaism is not Hebraism, Jews are not Israelites, Jesus did not practice 'Judaism' or was he ever Jewish. The 'Wailing Wall' is not the remains of the temple, but the fortress wall of Roman fort Antonia. Even the historian Flavius Josephus, who lived in Jerusalem and knew exactly where Herod's temple once stood, later saw the aftermath of its total destruction, in which he stated that it was like it never existed. Every stone was removed and taken away. After the Roman defeat of the Jews, the location of the temple was lost. There was no worship at the Western wall until well after the time of the Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent came into power in the mid-1500s. He ordered a search of Jerusalem for it. Meir Ben Dov's book -- "The Western Wall" records how it was found. He writes:
"In the days of the king Sultan Suleiman nobody knew the location of the Temple, so he ordered a search of Jerusalem to find it.
One day, a man in charge of the search who had already given up hope, saw a woman coming and on her head was a basket full of garbage and filth.
"What is on your head?" he asked.
"Garbage" she said.
"Where are you taking it." "To such-and-such a place"
"Where are you from?"
"From Bethlehem"
"And between Bethlehem and this place are there no garbage dumps?"
"We have a tradition that anyone who brings garbage and dumps it here is performing a meritorious work"
"This must be it" said the man and ordered many men to clear out the garbage from that spot, garbage which, because of the great time that had passed, had turned the earth at the bottom. And so he uncovered the holy place. He went and told the king who rejoiced greatly and ordered them to clean and sweep (the place) and wash the Wall with rose-water."
Rabbi Eliezer Nahman Puah ( Abboth de-Rabbi Nathan (A) 31. and Medrash Bahidush, 1641 p.31a) is reported to have stated in c. 1540 that in the day of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1495c -1566), the site of the Temple was unknown and he carried out an extensive search for it. A wall was finally found beneath a public garbage heap and everyone rejoiced that the site of the Holy Temple had been found. This is the site of the Wailing Wall today!