Channuka on the Run....

idsThe purpose of this blog is to make your Shabbat table [more][less] (choose one) Greek... Please share...

The other day in the JCC locker room, there were the usual cast of characters.

One fellow, let's call him Shlomo, always enjoys trading jocular comments.

So in the spirit of Channuka, I said, "Getting in touch with your inner Greek? Or is it your outer Greek?"

He said, "I don't know if you should say that exercise is so bad?

"What do you mean bad? You think that calling something 'Greek' means saying it's bad?"

"Isn't that what Channuka is all about? Up with the Torah, down with the Greeks?"

Question for your table - Who's right?

Here's a hint - it says in the Talmud - yes, the Talmud! - that for a Torah scroll to be kosher it must be written in either Hebrew or ... Greek!

How could that be?

I'll leave it for you as a Channukah puzzler.

Happy Channukah and 

Shabbat Shalom


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