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Originally Posted by Smack dat
This seems a bit dumb to my old brain but feel free to correct me if I got it wrong.
You can't eat flour or any products that contain flour for 8 days as a remembrance to the Jews that survived without these products back in the day.
You can, however, eat or drink anything else?
How is that tough?
Why not just abstain from food for 8 days.
Fucking Jews.
j/k
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You fast on Yom Kippur or Day of Atonement. You sit in shul or synagogue all day with no food or drink while asking god to forgive all your sins.
They had no flour and had water to make matzoh. So they finagled matzoh crackers and now we avoid flour for a day. Mynzis or stories seemingly guide the religion. Each holiday commemorates something they claim happened. I believe stories were told then embellished throughout generations and now we suffer from the lies. A drop of oil lasted eight days so Hanukkah is eight days. Maybe they couldn’t count back then.
To me there are events in the last one hundred years to celebrate with holidays than supposed events from the year 659. State of Israel recognized, end of holocaust, Golda Mier death, etc.
But if each religion has new holidays, work and school suffer. Passover is minor like Hanukkah. No one thinks about the reasons why you avoid flour. Hanukkah is minor but competes with Christmas. Eight days of gifts versus one day. But true Hanukkah gifts are a few coins because it’s a tiny holiday.
I like religious discussions about trends, food items during holidays, etc. it’s interesting to learn why and why not observances are held. But it usually is ruined by someone insisting Jesus was god or Jews are wealthy and who killed Christ.