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...we lit the first Chanukah candle.

#1: Thomas Genuine (Genuine) on Dec 12, 2017

Thanks. Your chanukia is much more beautiful than mine :)

Lovely menorah! Happy Chanukah, Gaynor.

This is NOT menorah but chanukkia!

No need for yelling in upper case with an exclamation mark, Thomas. Why would you not gracefully accept JoDeen's sincere good wishes, with perhaps a courteous lesson in the difference between the two terms? While you are technically correct, in the English-speaking diaspora the phrase most commonly used to refer to a chanukiah is Chanukah menorah, or just the single word menorah. Only in Hebrew does the word chanukiah make the distinction. Moreover, the word menorah has existed for two millennia, while chanukiah was coined specifically for the 9-branched candelabrum little more than a century ago.

http://religion.wikia.com/wiki/Menorah_(Hanukkah)

Thomas - One of mine looks like this, and one looks like your puzzle. The others would require a much larger grid. Perhaps I'll do another one for tonight...

Thank you, JoDeen - happy (insert holiday of choice here) to you, too!

Lollipop - Thank you for the etymology lesson. I did not know that - and by Ben Yehuda's wife, yet!

Lollipop - in my opinion there's an important difference. Menorah is a religious symbol and it derives from Torah. Chanukkiah has a historical origin and not from Torah.
I know that distinction is important only for Jewish nation, others can say: both are candle holders. :)

Lovely.

Very nice

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