Happy Hanukkah

[cornerofmadness]

someone needs to send me one of everything in this picture. It looks too delicious

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[spiderling.livejournal.com]

Seriuosly! yummmmm :)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i know

[spiderling.livejournal.com]

I actually make a mean sweet potato latke :)

[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I want those donuts. Want. Those. Donuts.

[bob_fish.livejournal.com]

It's breakfast time here and those latkes and donuts are making me hungry, dammit.

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

That does look yummy *grabs latke, runs off*

[sp23.livejournal.com]

Diet be damned, I want those latkes!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I KNOW

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

hey who said I was sharing?? Grin

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

tell me about it. granted I'm not allowed to eat any of this. but still

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

don't they look delicious

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

Chanukah! also know as clog your arteries with fried goodness!

Have a great one.

[despina-moon.livejournal.com]

Umm, I have a dreidel I can send you ...

PS: I love your icon!

Edited because I'm an idiot and put my comment in the wrong place.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

haha i could probably hurt myself with the dreidel but as a diabetic it's about the only thing in that picture outside of the menora that I SHOULD have.

and that's okay. Thanks. Actually it's time to change to another holiday icon

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

hahaha so I see. looks yummy. Meanwhile Christmas is kill your pancreas with sweets so...

Hey, i have a quesion for you. I know there are 8 days in chanuka but why are there 9 candles?

Also mom says your card made it there. thanks in advance.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

The shamash (or helper) candle is used to light all the other candles.

As to why it's there, one thought is that if a candle blows out, you still have the required number. Also, it's the only candle that can be used in a practical sense, the others cannot be moved out of the menorah.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I see. that makes sense. Catholics do something smiliar with the advent candles in the wreath. They're usually lit from the altar candles. A variety of pagan beliefs also have something similar It's not too hard to see how various religions would evolve (or copy) something about candles. I always thought the menorah was a pretty display