I make a Hanukkah card on my computer to my friend who is Jewish. I design the card in mind but I need more ideas for Hanukkah. I know there is the menorah, spinning top, and the Star of David. can someone give me more symbols. Just like how the Christmas tree, angels, men of gingerbread, etc. are associated with Christmas. So I'm thinking about making the map a little winter. As with snow flakes and snowmen. I know that in many minds is associated with Christmas, but in my mind, it means that winter. Find it appropriate?
Yeah, that's it ... kinda Menorah (make sure it has 9 candles) dreidl, star of David ... blue and gold.
That's all you need.
Kinda think a little ahead, is not it? I often think about this until about two days!
Oct 08, 2008 | by Kate J
First, be aware of your audience. Some Jews do not see Hanukkah as Holiday like Christmas, with cards and gifts. The others are, but they are sensitive to certain symbols. For example, one of my friends is sensitive to certain styles / colors of the Star of David because it was used to mark the Jewish Nazis. Others think it is stupid.
Hanukkah is not really a winter holiday, as it sometimes falls earlier. This year happens to start the first day of winter so that work.
Typical symbols include the Star of David, 8 1 menorah candle or oil lamps, dreidel and gold coins (gelt), fried foods (pancakes), gifts, family. I doubt you want a real symbols, including the destruction of the temple, swords, and others.
Typical colors are blue and white.
Oct 08, 2008 | by Jay
What are the symbols of Hanukkah?
Jun 20, 2006 by sudipa r | Posted in Religion & Spirituality
The main symbol of the Feast of Hanukkah (literally, Feast of 'Dedication' but often popularly called the "Feast of LIGHTS") is an eight-branched menorah ("lamp"), one additional candle of which is added for each day of this eight-day feast.
The book of 2 Maccabees, one of the two earliest records (along with 1 Maccabees, which is a more careful history) of the events behind Hanukkah, attributes the length of the feast and the importance of the LIGHTS to the Maccabees treating it like a delayed (feast of) Tabernacles (Hebrew "Sukkoth"), the great fall harvest feast of Israel. (The importance of lights to Tabernacles is rooted in the feast's role as a celebration of God's leading Israel through the desert, specifically as symbols of the pillar of cloud and fire that went before them.)
The other explanation --the popular one-- is found in the Talmud, is that there was only enough oil for one day, but miraculously it lasted for eight days. Jews often speak about "the miracle of the oil")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah#Th e_story
A popular secondary symbol connected with Hanukkah is the dreidl (Yiddish [a Jewish dialect of German] for "top") of medieval Europe, used to play a game during Hanukkah. Each side of the top has a Hebrew letter. The letters have a two-fold meaning -- each begins a Yiddish (German) word that instructs the players what to do; taken together they also form the first four words of a Hebrew saying, "(A) great miracle happened there [or 'here' if played in Israel]."
http://www.jabad.org.ar/imagenes/2dreidl _20011207.jpg
http://www.rjca.org/dreidl.html
http://www.chabad.org/holidays/chanukah/ article.asp?AID=255909
(Also associated with this feast are Hanukkah gelt [real coins or ones made of chocoloate] and potato pancakes called "latkas". But these are not central "symbols" of the feast.)
http://people.howstuffworks.com/hanukkah 2.htm
Jun 23, 2006 | by bruhaha
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That's what we came up with, and Fabre said that's exactly what she had in mind. We gave the picture to use for his "cards for Heroes" campaign and said that whoever wants to use for this purpose can be free also. This past weekend was a mini-blog hop -- the theme is "Holiday" cards for soldiers. Again, the cards are collected both cards to send to the soldiers themselves, as well as cards that soldiers can use to return home to family and friends. The soldiers love to exchange holiday cards and wishes as much as the rest of us!
