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Related: About this forumOldie but goodie - why the Jews are better off without a Christmas Tree
We can laugh at ourselves, right?
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Oldie but goodie - why the Jews are better off without a Christmas Tree (Original Post)
question everything
Jan 2017
OP
Mosby
(16,310 posts)1. Funny! Never heard of this guy
here is another one.
EllieBC
(3,014 posts)2. Hilchos Halloween:
JudyM
(29,241 posts)3. Good concept! Will share.
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)4. I'll give you the Orthodox answer re: trees
Learn not the way of the nations,
nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens
because the nations are dismayed at them,
for the customs of the peoples are vanity.
A tree from the forest is cut down
and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.
They decorate it with silver and gold;
they fasten it with hammer and nails
so that it cannot move.
Jer. 10:2-4
It's a reference to a pre-Nazarine practice, obviously. But the principle still applies.