12 days of Channukah
Dec. 24th, 2008 10:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theyellowhobbitI love the Channukah Torah reading. It basically goes:
On the first day of Channukah my true love1 gave to me2 one silver dish,one silver basin, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense; one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb of the first year; one male of the goats; two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, and five he-lambs of the first year.
On the second day of Channukah, my true love3 gave to me one silver dish,one silver basin, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense; one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb of the first year; one male of the goats; two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, and five he-lambs of the first year.
Etc.
It's pretty much the same thing over and over, with different names. And they come from different tribes. They all give the same gift. (Which makes it the easiest Torah reading ever.)
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/e/et/et0407.htm
1 And by "my true love" I mean "Nachson ben Amindav"
2 And by "me" I mean God.
3 And by "my true love" I mean "Nethanel ben Zuar"
On the first day of Channukah my true love1 gave to me2 one silver dish,one silver basin, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense; one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb of the first year; one male of the goats; two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, and five he-lambs of the first year.
On the second day of Channukah, my true love3 gave to me one silver dish,one silver basin, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering; one golden pan of ten shekels, full of incense; one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb of the first year; one male of the goats; two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, and five he-lambs of the first year.
Etc.
It's pretty much the same thing over and over, with different names. And they come from different tribes. They all give the same gift. (Which makes it the easiest Torah reading ever.)
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/e/et/et0407.htm
1 And by "my true love" I mean "Nachson ben Amindav"
2 And by "me" I mean God.
3 And by "my true love" I mean "Nethanel ben Zuar"
