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Jan. 9th, 2012
I listened to the lecture http://torahanytime.com/Rabbi/Search/index.html?lecture=xmas&lecture_ID
By Rabbi Lawrence Kelemen about Xmas and New Years. The lecture is less than 40 minutes long. I downloaded and listened to it in the car.
Rabbi Kelemen explained that Jesus was not born on December 25th, Xmas tree, mistletoe, ginger bread man, and Santa Claus have nothing to do with Christianity or December 25th. In this lecture, he is providing facts and historical evidence about those holidays and traditions. Rabbi Keleman explained that all of those traditions came out of horrible pagan traditions during which there were a lot of gruesome killings that grew into public anti-Semitic events.
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I listened to the lecture http://torahanytime.com/Rabbi/Search/index.html?lecture=xmas&lecture_ID
By Rabbi Lawrence Kelemen about Xmas and New Years. The lecture is less than 40 minutes long. I downloaded and listened to it in the car.
Rabbi Kelemen explained that Jesus was not born on December 25th, Xmas tree, mistletoe, ginger bread man, and Santa Claus have nothing to do with Christianity or December 25th. In this lecture, he is providing facts and historical evidence about those holidays and traditions. Rabbi Keleman explained that all of those traditions came out of horrible pagan traditions during which there were a lot of gruesome killings that grew into public anti-Semitic events.
( Read more... )