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B6 Alberta THE EDMONTON JOURNAL, Tuesday, December 18, 984 Hanukkah originated in defiance, faith R. Glenn Martin i "m0 and non-religious families observe the festival. The miracle, Dr. David Hart-man said in an article for the Jewish Star two years ago, was as much that the candle was lit when there was not enough oil to keep it going, as that the oil lasted eight days. Hanukkah, a word which means "dedication" in Hebrew, expresses a willingness to live without certainty, or even to flout the odds where purity and truth are at stake, Hartman said.

It also sug gests one should do what one can, even if it seems inadequate. "One ought to pour infinite yearnings even into small vessels. Only lamps that are lit may continue to bum beyond their anticipated life-span," Hart-man said. Hanukkah is celebrated with a nine-candle menorah. The central candle, known as the sham ash or servant, is used the first night to light one other candle.

Each night, an additional candle is lit until on the eighth night all the candles are lit. only one tin of consecrated oil to light the candlestick. However, rather than wait until more oil could be prepared, they decided to light the candlestick with the oil they had, which was sufficient to last for only one day. Miraculously, it lasted for eight days, long enough to be replenished by new oil. Long celebrated as a minor family festival, Hanukkah has assumed greater importance in recent years as an assertion of Jewish identity at the same time of the Business: friend or enemy? By PAUL DE GROOT Journal Staff Writer If there is a ritual that best expresses the value of tradition, it may well be Hanukkah, which begins tonight.

For 2,149 years, Jews have commemorated a seemingly minor event: the lighting of a single candle in 165 B.C. It was an act of both defiance and faith. Three years earlier, Syrian leader Antiochus Epiphanes had ordered swine sacrificed in the temple thus defiling it and promised the death penalty to any who continued to observe Jewish customs. His intention was to wipe out Judaism completely. But one Jew, Mattathias, mobilized opposition to the sacrilege and his son, Judas Maccabaeus, routed the Syrians.

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Norman Goble's comments, reflecting sentiments common in the teaching profession, are far more rhetorical. Goble sees education as a counterweight to lack of morality in the profit motive of business. He speaks of a "rabble of clamorous competitors, jostling and arguing, and all claiming that their goals should be paramount, that their profit is the well-spring of human progress." He writes of the "grim state of the world economy" and suggests that it is "a hair-raising risk" for "the authors of this mischief" (i.e., K. lj LI A I I i Vinyl's, Prepastsd, Unpasted, Grasscloth, Murals, Residential Commercial Best-Near Receiver Manager for the Wallcovering Mart is selling the inventory at substantial savings to the consumer. Dates: December 18-22 Time: 10:00 a.m.

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