Marion, you have a smile that could light up a room! I can’t help but be happy when I watch your videos. I am a Christian working as a nanny for a wonderful Jewish family. I came in blind and very inexperienced and I have learned SO much from you about Judaism and Jewish holidays, traditions, how to keep kosher, etc. thank you so much! Happy Hanukkah!
Very interesting! I'm Southern Baptist and didn't know much about Jewish holidays before I found your channel. Thank you for providing so much information! 🙂
I am very much looking forward to your Vlognukkah videos this year, Marion! On a side note I just wanted to tell you that I began my conversion classes last month! I just want to thank you so much for being such a big inspiration in my journey with Judaism, it wouldn't be the same without your amazing videos:)
When I was a kid and we briefly learned about various winter holidays in school, I always thought Hanukkah sounded way cooler than Christmas: "An eight-day holiday where you get to light pretty candles, hang with family and friends, AND stuff yourself with delicious potato pancakes? I love it!" As a Wiccan, my winter festival is Yule, honoring the winter solstice, the rebirth of the sun, and all the lovely light metaphors which come with that. I love this dark, chilly time of year because so many faiths and traditions spend this season celebrating love and light in various ways. Thanks for the fun facts list. Happy Hanukkah!
Me neither (and I have been Jewish my whole life) traditionaly all Jewish holidays have rituals and specific kind of food but they are not the main part of the holiday. Every ritual and food involved is to remind us of something in our history because as Jewish people we believe that history is incredibly important to learn and pass on to your kids the lessons learned from history is what made us into who we are today.
Christmas isn’t a major holiday in the Christian calendar. Easter is the “big deal” in Christianity (because it’s about the resurrection of the Messiah). Christmas is just the most over commercialized. 😉
Thank You for sharing these facts. We decided a couple of years to celebrate Hanukkah because we think of the miracle maker our God and that He is the same miracle maker from before and today and forever more. Celebrating has changed our lives because we sit in a thankful time of trusting and believing our God will hear our prayers. It is interesting to hear your reason of celebrating 🕎🙏🏼✝️🇺🇸🇮🇱
Very good explanation for a beginner trying to do Hanukkah.. Does it get any better than latkes and jelly donuts!? The Maccabees indeed did suffer greatly they stood up for righteousness and that's what we're all about Baruch HaShem.. Just hearing your voice at the excitement that you have makes me when I get my Menorah and my decorations out now I'm not ready LOL I want to clean first I like how Adam Sandler said when Gentiles have one day of Christmas we have Eight Crazy Nights and isn't that the truth it's amazing time
I love your videos! Hanukkah is one of my favorite holidays of the year! I love that you can get so many nice decorations for jewish holidays in the US. I try to find decoration online or do it myself since you can't find ANY decoration for jewish holidays here in Germany! Keep up the good work! :)
@@MyJewishMommyLife Not only decorations also kids toys and books. Thanks to the internet you can find a lot of that online :) BTW your boys are SO adorable!
I'll be doing Vlognukkah too! I never have before. I had never heard the idea that Hanukkah is a delayed celebration of Sukkot--Always something new to learn! LOVE the story of Judith--she is really a hero.
I've seen a story about chanukah that says that the miracle happened because they went above and beyond by pressing new pure oil untouched by non jews. They technically could have used unclean oil but they went above and beyond to rededicate the temple and so G-d gave them the miracle of the oil :')
Hello Marion, Thanks for this great video-I very much appreciate your chanel. May I ask you if you have gone through a mixed school or did you go to a jewish school when you were a child/Teenager? I am wishing you a great rest of Chanukka and all the best from Switzerland
Dearest Marion, Thank you so much for making such an interesting and informative video ❣May the lights and joy of Chanukah light up our lives ..... With love from Israel, ♥️Chaya Leya
I learned all about the Maccabees & the great miracle of the oil that last for the 8 days. It’s a very important & wonderful story, even for us Christians!
Fun fact about your fun fact. what u said about the milk/cheese is the censored kids version 😉 the quote is "he asked for water she gave him milk" by milk meaning breast milk 😉. And that was enough for a good destruction to chop of his head 😏
@@reflexionesdelabiblia6711 *Misconception: Christians should celebrate Hanukkah* This is probably the most troublesome misconception of all. On the one hand, the story of the Maccabees is part of the Catholic Bible and Hanukkah is mentioned in the Gospel of John (10:22-39). On the other hand, St. Paul firmly asserted that Christians are not obliged to celebrate Jewish holidays (Col. 2:16-17). - www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/myths-about-hanukkah
@@faithwisdom788 🤔: very interesting . I was raised Baptist , now I'm Spiritual 👁👍👍. There's too many versions of The Bible , Torah , The SCROLLS, the Koran and other forms of The Word. ThaTS why There's So Much DIVISIONS SPIRITUALLY . CUT THE CRAP " THE WHOLE HUMANE SOCIETY IS SO FREAKIN CONFUSED 🙄🤔☹😲🤤 !!! Every Group Think Their GROUP BETTER THAN THE NEXT 😬😬😬😬🤕🤕 Theirs Only 1 ☝️👆 Greater Spirit/Power For Us All 👁👊👑👑👑 ( It's In Us All) .....
@@LadyLynn22 King James bible used to have these books actually. The original 1611. They were in an apocryphal section though. I used to be atheist, agnostic, deist. I wasn't raised catholic. The history of how we got the bible played a role in me believing in the catholic faith. Early church history too. We have letters we can read from early christians. Do you have any idea of how all these different denominations started? 🙂 I can help you out with that if you want. You on social media? We could talk. I studied Islam too and some other religions.
Hey how are you loving the Hanukkah videos! I was curious about something, and maybe you already have answered this question in a previous video and I'm unaware as I am a new subscriber, are you Reform? And do you ever wear head covering? I hope you don't mind my questions! Todah rabbah 😊
@@MyJewishMommyLife Would you be willing to do a video about Conservative Judaism? I'm not familiar with this and would love to learn more and understand this!
I love these videos. You actually ended up answering a lot of questions I had. And I was actually going to ask you why there were different spellings of Hanukkah. I was so confused by that.😂
Absolutely LOVE these videos!!! I know I always say this, but thank you! I love learning about my step grandmas religion and how she grew up! Love you, Hanukkah is coming sooo soon!! AND OMG I NEARLY SPIT OUT MY WATER WHEN YOU SAID BAD ASS BITCH hahahahaha I love you you're awesome.
Must be non-Christian gentiles who do not realize that the story of the Maccabees can be celebrated by Christians and Jews because it is part of the religious story of both religions. In our area, many of us had a Chanukah party with Jewish and Christian friends since it is the festival both could celebrate together. Christmas is a holiday, rather than a festival day, but it does not carry the weight most non-Christians or ill-educated Christians think it does. In the ancient church, the premier holidays were Easter, Pentacost and Epiphany, so the gifts were brought at the arrival of the Magi on Epiphany for the revealing of the messiah to the world, not the birth. Christmas became a big deal due to the Roman festival of saturnalia and the church trying to draw people away from the pagan celebration. In a both Judaism and Christianity share the same 3 highest holiday seasons because Easter is a form of the Passover, Pentacost is the giving of the Word, and the Christian liturgical season begins with Advent next week which when added to the Christmas and Epiphany liturgical seasons makes for a celebration of the new religious year in much the same way that Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot do a bit earlier in the fall within Judaism. Though liturgically Advent and Christmas lead up to the Epiphany, all of them rather short liturgical seasons. As Passover could be said to be the premier Jewish holiday, so Easter is the premier Christian holiday. It is a high holy day, liturgical season and the queen of feasts. The ascending lighting of the candles for Chanukah is also nice because each day is a bit darker until the winter solstice and Chanukah usually falls right before that or during it. I just love that we live in a climate where the festivals of light are all so appropriate to the time of year. Good presentation. It is good for you to educate people about the traditions you know. There was a rabbi on TV in L.A. when I lived there and he spoke every Sunday, I guess because his Sabbath obligations were over. Back then there were 6 billion of God's children on earth. He reminded everyone when speaking of the Shoah that Jews were here as the chosen people to teach of the fate of the 6 million for the benefit of the 6 billion. This applies to any lesson from any holiday for all to share in the understandings we have earned from great sufferings and yet celebrate with the huge joy and gratitude of remembrance that we yet live.
@@reflexionesdelabiblia6711 All of our western civilization holidays are based on old Roman ones due to the use of Greek and Roman calendars, but Easter is not pagan. It is the Christian version of the Passover, literally. It just happens to carry vernal equinox symbols of eggs and rabbits that call to mind new life, as in pagan forms. So Christmas kind of got elevated due to pagan Roman habits around the winter solstice to holiday status, rather than festival, even though there are those who think the birth happened in summertime. But then, Rudolph is really Rudolfa because only female reindeer have their antlers at this time of year. I was making a point about the religious meaning, not about actually historical evidence or symbols utilized. It is easier with Judaism using their ancient calendar still to calculate holidays.
Another great post! For any non Jewish person interested in learning more about the origins of Hanukah, it can be found in a non Jewish published Bible in the First Book of The Maccabees Chapter 4 verses 52-59 and Second Book of the Maccabees Chapter 10 verses 1- 8 for those whom desire to read about it in a non Jewish published Bible for better understanding of its history and origin.
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Marion, you have a smile that could light up a room! I can’t help but be happy when I watch your videos. I am a Christian working as a nanny for a wonderful Jewish family. I came in blind and very inexperienced and I have learned SO much from you about Judaism and Jewish holidays, traditions, how to keep kosher, etc. thank you so much! Happy Hanukkah!
Wow that is such a kind thing to say, thank you so much! You sound like a truly wonderful nanny I'm sure this family is so lucky to have found you!
2070 You will have "My Jewish Grandmommy Life".
😂😂😂 I love this!!!
I hope so
Very interesting! I'm Southern Baptist and didn't know much about Jewish holidays before I found your channel. Thank you for providing so much information! 🙂
You’re so welcome, I’m so glad to hear you like my video 🥰
I am very much looking forward to your Vlognukkah videos this year, Marion! On a side note I just wanted to tell you that I began my conversion classes last month! I just want to thank you so much for being such a big inspiration in my journey with Judaism, it wouldn't be the same without your amazing videos:)
Thank you so much and I'm so excited for you and wish you all the best on your journey!
When I was a kid and we briefly learned about various winter holidays in school, I always thought Hanukkah sounded way cooler than Christmas: "An eight-day holiday where you get to light pretty candles, hang with family and friends, AND stuff yourself with delicious potato pancakes? I love it!"
As a Wiccan, my winter festival is Yule, honoring the winter solstice, the rebirth of the sun, and all the lovely light metaphors which come with that. I love this dark, chilly time of year because so many faiths and traditions spend this season celebrating love and light in various ways. Thanks for the fun facts list. Happy Hanukkah!
Love your vids. Thanks Mama!
Baruch Hashem!
Thank you SO much!! Happy Hanukkah!
Same to you
I honestly didn't know about the Sukkot part. That's super cool.
Thank you! So glad to hear it!!
Me neither (and I have been Jewish my whole life) traditionaly all Jewish holidays have rituals and specific kind of food but they are not the main part of the holiday. Every ritual and food involved is to remind us of something in our history because as Jewish people we believe that history is incredibly important to learn and pass on to your kids the lessons learned from history is what made us into who we are today.
Christmas isn’t a major holiday in the Christian calendar. Easter is the “big deal” in Christianity (because it’s about the resurrection of the Messiah). Christmas is just the most over commercialized. 😉
I have heard this before, so interesting!
Sister Spooky Yeah thansk i was going to comment something like that.
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Thank You for sharing these facts. We decided a couple of years to celebrate Hanukkah because we think of the miracle maker our God and that He is the same miracle maker from before and today and forever more. Celebrating has changed our lives because we sit in a thankful time of trusting and believing our God will hear our prayers. It is interesting to hear your reason of celebrating 🕎🙏🏼✝️🇺🇸🇮🇱
You're so welcome, thank you for watching!!
Thank you for this important information. Wish I had paid attention in Sunday school. Happy Chanukah to you and your family
😂 you’re very welcome!!
Where did you get your awesome sweater?
Very good explanation for a beginner trying to do Hanukkah..
Does it get any better than latkes and jelly donuts!?
The Maccabees indeed did suffer greatly they stood up for righteousness and that's what we're all about Baruch HaShem..
Just hearing your voice at the excitement that you have makes me when I get my Menorah and my decorations out now I'm not ready LOL I want to clean first
I like how Adam Sandler said when Gentiles have one day of Christmas we have Eight Crazy Nights and isn't that the truth it's amazing time
Yay thank you so much 😊!! Malign these videos makes me extra excited about the holiday as well, and you are so right cleaning first is a must!
Thanks for sharing. That was really neat to hear. I had learned some of those facts before.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad to hear it!
I really enjoyed watching and learning some new facts. Thanks for sharing😊
You are so welcome, thank you for watching!!
Thank you for this video about Hanukkah! I will be celebrating my first Hanukkah this year. Thank you 😊💖
I love your videos!
Hanukkah is one of my favorite holidays of the year! I love that you can get so many nice decorations for jewish holidays in the US. I try to find decoration online or do it myself since you can't find ANY decoration for jewish holidays here in Germany!
Keep up the good work! :)
Thank you SO much!! I am getting lots of messages now that it is so much harder to find decorations for Hanukkah in other parts of the world!
@@MyJewishMommyLife Not only decorations also kids toys and books. Thanks to the internet you can find a lot of that online :)
BTW your boys are SO adorable!
I'll be doing Vlognukkah too! I never have before. I had never heard the idea that Hanukkah is a delayed celebration of Sukkot--Always something new to learn! LOVE the story of Judith--she is really a hero.
So exciting to have some more UA-camr doing VLOGnukkah! Yay!!
Chanukah is my favorite holiday
Even though I have school for the first four days
It is such a fun one! Hope you have a great time this year!
@@MyJewishMommyLife thank you
I hope you and your family a very happy and healthy Chanukah
Thank you so much! You are greatly appreciated for what you do in sharing the Jewish faith and beliefs.
That is so kind of you to say, thank you!!
Thank you so much for explaining Hanukkah! Never really understood til now.
You're so welcome!!
I've seen a story about chanukah that says that the miracle happened because they went above and beyond by pressing new pure oil untouched by non jews. They technically could have used unclean oil but they went above and beyond to rededicate the temple and so G-d gave them the miracle of the oil :')
That's so interesting, thank you so much for sharing!!
Hello Marion, Thanks for this great video-I very much appreciate your chanel. May I ask you if you have gone through a mixed school or did you go to a jewish school when you were a child/Teenager? I am wishing you a great rest of Chanukka and all the best from Switzerland
I've attended both! Thank you so much, Switzerland is top of my travel bucket list!!
@@MyJewishMommyLife if you decide to come to Switzerland, please let me know. All the best, Alice
Thank you. Well done.
Ty! Happy Hannukah ❤
Thank you for watching!
Dearest Marion,
Thank you so much for making such an interesting and informative video ❣May the lights and joy of Chanukah light up our lives ..... With love from Israel, ♥️Chaya Leya
Thank you so much Chaya Leya! I hope you have a beautiful Hanukkah full of love and light as well 💕💞💕
I learned all about the Maccabees & the great miracle of the oil that last for the 8 days. It’s a very important & wonderful story, even for us Christians!
I loved your facts...especially the part about Judith! You are too funny/cute! :)
Thank you so much!!
Fun fact about your fun fact. what u said about the milk/cheese is the censored kids version 😉 the quote is "he asked for water she gave him milk" by milk meaning breast milk 😉. And that was enough for a good destruction to chop of his head 😏
@@manyalevine1017 lol
I love the story of Judah Maccabee. I hope you'll have a social distance Hanukkah this year.
Thank you!
Love this video, I learned so much! Makes me want to read my parents' Catholic Bible. Thanks for sharing, and cracking up at the cell phone thing lol.
So glad to hear that you liked it!!
Catholics have those books (the Maccabees) and the book of Judith too. 🙂 😁 In the Catholic bible I mean.
Yes that’s very true!! Good point!
@@reflexionesdelabiblia6711 *Misconception: Christians should celebrate Hanukkah*
This is probably the most troublesome misconception of all. On the one hand, the story of the Maccabees is part of the Catholic Bible and Hanukkah is mentioned in the Gospel of John (10:22-39). On the other hand, St. Paul firmly asserted that Christians are not obliged to celebrate Jewish holidays (Col. 2:16-17).
- www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/myths-about-hanukkah
How Come KING James Bible don't have theses Books 🤔
@@faithwisdom788 🤔: very interesting . I was raised Baptist , now I'm Spiritual 👁👍👍. There's too many versions of The Bible , Torah , The SCROLLS, the Koran and other forms of The Word. ThaTS why There's So Much DIVISIONS SPIRITUALLY . CUT THE CRAP " THE WHOLE HUMANE SOCIETY IS SO FREAKIN CONFUSED 🙄🤔☹😲🤤 !!! Every Group Think Their GROUP BETTER THAN THE NEXT 😬😬😬😬🤕🤕
Theirs Only 1 ☝️👆 Greater Spirit/Power For Us All 👁👊👑👑👑 ( It's In Us All) .....
@@LadyLynn22 King James bible used to have these books actually. The original 1611. They were in an apocryphal section though. I used to be atheist, agnostic, deist. I wasn't raised catholic. The history of how we got the bible played a role in me believing in the catholic faith. Early church history too. We have letters we can read from early christians. Do you have any idea of how all these different denominations started? 🙂 I can help you out with that if you want. You on social media? We could talk. I studied Islam too and some other religions.
Here it is,the start of Aptil,and I'm already thinking about Hanukkah!!!🙂🙂🙂🙂
Hey how are you loving the Hanukkah videos! I was curious about something, and maybe you already have answered this question in a previous video and I'm unaware as I am a new subscriber, are you Reform? And do you ever wear head covering? I hope you don't mind my questions! Todah rabbah 😊
Thanks so much! I am Conservative and I don’t cover my hair.
Right on! Thanks for the answer :D
@@MyJewishMommyLife Would you be willing to do a video about Conservative Judaism? I'm not familiar with this and would love to learn more and understand this!
wow, this is so interesting. Nice job!!!!!!
Thank you so much 😊
I love these videos. You actually ended up answering a lot of questions I had.
And I was actually going to ask you why there were different spellings of Hanukkah. I was so confused by that.😂
Aww that's so nice to hear Lisa, Thank you!
Interesting facts about Chanukah
Thank you so much 😊
You are so adorable.I love listening to you.
Thank you so much ☺️
Marion, I see u as y were as a little girl skipping, smiling, & joyous
Very interesting. But for now happy Thanksgiving!!! 😁
Lol thank you! Happy Thanksgiving to you too!
I love this channel! I love the Jewish!
Thank you!
Judah Maccabeus is cool.
Absolutely LOVE these videos!!! I know I always say this, but thank you! I love learning about my step grandmas religion and how she grew up! Love you, Hanukkah is coming sooo soon!!
AND OMG I NEARLY SPIT OUT MY WATER WHEN YOU SAID BAD ASS BITCH hahahahaha I love you you're awesome.
Aww you are so welcome, thank you so much for watching!
@@MyJewishMommyLife cant wait for 2070 when your videos are about being a Jewish grandma 😂❤
Beautiful video as always!
Thank you so much!
I almost always watch your now videos. I have to say I was surprised by the language! I'm glad my kids weren't in the room. Good info though. 😊
LOL, thank you so much for watching!!
I had to quickly mute my computer 🤭
Must be non-Christian gentiles who do not realize that the story of the Maccabees can be celebrated by Christians and Jews because it is part of the religious story of both religions. In our area, many of us had a Chanukah party with Jewish and Christian friends since it is the festival both could celebrate together. Christmas is a holiday, rather than a festival day, but it does not carry the weight most non-Christians or ill-educated Christians think it does. In the ancient church, the premier holidays were Easter, Pentacost and Epiphany, so the gifts were brought at the arrival of the Magi on Epiphany for the revealing of the messiah to the world, not the birth. Christmas became a big deal due to the Roman festival of saturnalia and the church trying to draw people away from the pagan celebration. In a both Judaism and Christianity share the same 3 highest holiday seasons because Easter is a form of the Passover, Pentacost is the giving of the Word, and the Christian liturgical season begins with Advent next week which when added to the Christmas and Epiphany liturgical seasons makes for a celebration of the new religious year in much the same way that Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot do a bit earlier in the fall within Judaism. Though liturgically Advent and Christmas lead up to the Epiphany, all of them rather short liturgical seasons. As Passover could be said to be the premier Jewish holiday, so Easter is the premier Christian holiday. It is a high holy day, liturgical season and the queen of feasts. The ascending lighting of the candles for Chanukah is also nice because each day is a bit darker until the winter solstice and Chanukah usually falls right before that or during it. I just love that we live in a climate where the festivals of light are all so appropriate to the time of year. Good presentation. It is good for you to educate people about the traditions you know. There was a rabbi on TV in L.A. when I lived there and he spoke every Sunday, I guess because his Sabbath obligations were over. Back then there were 6 billion of God's children on earth. He reminded everyone when speaking of the Shoah that Jews were here as the chosen people to teach of the fate of the 6 million for the benefit of the 6 billion. This applies to any lesson from any holiday for all to share in the understandings we have earned from great sufferings and yet celebrate with the huge joy and gratitude of remembrance that we yet live.
Thank you for sharing your insight!
@@reflexionesdelabiblia6711 All of our western civilization holidays are based on old Roman ones due to the use of Greek and Roman calendars, but Easter is not pagan. It is the Christian version of the Passover, literally. It just happens to carry vernal equinox symbols of eggs and rabbits that call to mind new life, as in pagan forms. So Christmas kind of got elevated due to pagan Roman habits around the winter solstice to holiday status, rather than festival, even though there are those who think the birth happened in summertime. But then, Rudolph is really Rudolfa because only female reindeer have their antlers at this time of year. I was making a point about the religious meaning, not about actually historical evidence or symbols utilized. It is easier with Judaism using their ancient calendar still to calculate holidays.
Thank you people look at me like I’m crazy when I say I celebrate Hanukkah as a Christian.
Another great post! For any non Jewish person interested in learning more about the origins of Hanukah, it can be found in a non Jewish published Bible in the First Book of The Maccabees Chapter 4 verses 52-59 and Second Book of the Maccabees Chapter 10 verses 1- 8 for those whom desire to read about it in a non Jewish published Bible for better understanding of its history and origin.
Thank you so much for sharing!
Without Chanukkah, there would have been no Christmas... ;)
🙄🙄🔬🔬
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