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'New Years' Eve (aka Sylvester) is still NOT KOSHER!
nessuno:
--- Quote from: אפרי בן נח on December 24, 2012, 12:42:40 PM ---I'm sorry Bullcat and cjd for your loss.
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Thank You very much,אפרי בן נח .
muman613:
'New Years' has seemed to be a time of death to me also. In 2009 on New Years Eve I visited my father in the Hospital, he died on the 8th of January.... Just spoke with my step-dad who has been given only 6 months to go before his cancer takes his life...
muman613:
For those who don't understand why religious Jews would not want to celebrate this day see the thread I posted on the day known as 'Sylvester', when Jews were forced to accept the Christian calendar established by the Romans by Sylvester....
http://jtf.org/forum/index.php/topic,66184.0.html
Anyone ever hear of the 8th day after Christs birth?
http://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/newyearshistory/
Ephraim Ben Noach:
--- Quote from: muman613 on December 24, 2012, 02:41:57 PM ---
Anyone ever hear of the 8th day after Christs birth?
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I have not, what is it?
muman613:
--- Quote from: אפרי בן נח on December 24, 2012, 03:23:08 PM --- I have not, what is it?
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January 1st is supposed to be the eighth day after Jesus birth.... This is the day, according to Jewish law, that a son must be circumcised. Thus Jan 1st is celebrated by some Christians as the date of Jesus circumcision..
--- Quote ---http://www.oztorah.com/2010/12/new-years-ev-ask-the-rabbi/
Q. Are Jews permitted to celebrate New Year’s Eve?
A. It is difficult to ascertain whether or not there is any halachic problem with celebrating 1 January as New Year’s Day. It is simply not certain what made this day into a festival. If it is linked to 25 December (according to some, being the 8th day it was Jesus’ b’rit milah), it is certainly of religious origins and not relevant for Judaism.
The ruling of Rav Moshe Feinstein is, “If a holiday is based on religious belief, such celebrations are prohibited to Jewish people”. He adds, “The first day of the non-Jewish year, 1 January, and American Thanksgiving are not prohibited according to halachah because today they no longer have any religious significance, but those who are particular should be strict in respect of them” (Igrot Moshe, Even HaEzer 2:13).
It must be added that the halachah is far from happy with the hedonism and over-indulgence in eating and drinking which are common on New Year’s Eve.
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