WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is marking Hanukkah as a story of "faith over doubt."
Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden convened a Hanukkah celebration at the White House Thursday in an early celebration of the Jewish Festival of Lights.
Obama said the Hanukkah story was about "right over might, faith over doubt." In the Hanukkah story, a small band of Jews rededicating a Jerusalem temple found that a one-day supply of oil kindled a flame instead for eight.
The president noted "our unshakeable support and commitment to the security of the nation of Israel."
Hanukkah begins at sunset on Dec. 20. Obama joked that everyone needs to be "careful that your kids don't start thinking Hanukkah lasts 20 nights instead of eight."
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Turns out he "celebrated" 12 days early and by improperly lighting all the candles at once. Imagine him showing such disrespect to any Islamic holiday. Indeed, he is always very respectful and reverent about them.
This is just the latest of apparently intentional slights to Jewish holidays observances. More importantly, it is so out of time that it seems nearly a backwards; an occultist observance. There is a lot to unpack here, but the sheer arrogance is breath taking.
For now, understand what this otherwise minor holiday is about (from "Fact Monster"):
"Nearly 2,200 years ago, the Greek-Syrian ruler Antiochus IV tried to force Greek culture upon peoples in his territory. Jews in Judea - now Israel- were forbidden their most important religious practices as well as study of the Torah. Although vastly outnumbered, religious Jews in the region took up arms to protect their community and their religion. Led by Mattathias the Hasmonean, and later his son Judah the Maccabee, the rebel armies became known as the Maccabees.
"After three years of fighting, in the year 3597, or about 165 B.C.E., the Maccabees victoriously reclaimed the temple on Jerusalem's Mount Moriah. Next they prepared the temple for rededication -- in Hebrew, Hanukkah means "dedication." In the temple they found only enough purified oil to kindle the temple light for a single day. But miraculously, the light continued to burn for eight days."
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Antiochus IV is seen as the most prominent type of an antichrist figure. Therefore to mock the Hanukkah observance is to show an Antiochus IV-like disdain for it. Why 12 days early? Not sure yet, but the number is very important in the Bible of course, and Antiochus IV's goal was to wipe out the Jews; the twelve tribes .
Considering BHO's odd attachment to Germany (starting with his speech to a massive rally in Hitler's "Tier (Victory) Garden" in 2008), this from Wiki is interesting:
"The term Black Sun may originate with the mystical "Central Sun" in Helena Blavatsky's Theosophy. This invisible or burnt out Sun (Karl Maria Wiligut's Santur in Nazi mysticism) symbolizes an opposing force or pole.[citation needed] Emil Rüdiger, of Rudolf John Gorslebens Edda-Gesellschaft (Edda Society), claimed that a fight between the new and the old Suns was decided 330,000 years ago, and that Santur had been the source of power of the Hyperboreans.[citation needed]
"The Wewelsburg symbol can be deconstructed into three swastikas; a "rising", a "zenith" & a "setting" one, the design is popular among German Neo-Nazis as a replacement for the outlawed singular swastika symbol. Another interpretation is that the symbol incorporates twelve reversed "Sig runes" of the Armanen runes.
"Allegedly, the design was drawn for Heinrich Himmler from an "old Aryan emblem",[31] and was meant to mimic the Round table of Arthurian legend with each spoke of the sun wheel representing one "knight" or Officer of the "inner" SS. According to James Twining, "The symbol of the Black Sun unites the three most important symbols of Nazi ideology - the sun wheel, the swastika and the stylized victory rune." and that it is symbolic in its form representing "the twelve SS Knights of The Order of the Death's Head and their three retainers).[32]
"Erich Halik was the first to link the esoteric SS with the Black Sun roundel insignia carried by German aircraft in the polar region at the close of World War II.[4][33]"
Occultist James Donahue explains 12 has an occultic significance, that by adding the one and two digits to make three, you reach the prime occult number, and "333" doubled (an occultic ritual according to him) equals well, you know.
