#maccabee

[if-i-am-not-for-me]

The fact that a Google search for "meowccabee" just redirects to "maccabee" is inordinately disappointing. I want feline puns about my religious heroes.

[sssfrs]

💙🔨🕎🕯מי ימלל גבורות ישראל 💙🔨🕎🕯

Happy end of Hanukkah, here is my hanukkah drawing 

[realitys-ex]

The Odd Etymology of macabre

I recently learned the etymology of ‘Macabre’, and it is too great not to share.

‘Macabre’ comes from ‘Maccabee’. As in the ones from Hanukah.  Y’see, back in the day people put on shows/plays about the events in the book of Maccabee. Part of that play was a dance sequence depicting the Greeks torturing the Maccabees (Not for anti-Semitic reasons, just because it occured in the story and for some odd reason they thought it should be a musical scene).

In France this scene was called  “dance Maccabee” or “danse macabre” (spelling not being crazy important in medieval france). Possibly the first use of the term was in Latin “Machabaeorum chorea”. 

In any case the sequence was relatively horrifying, and so the term ‘macabre’ came to mean anything horrifying or gruesome.  

This gives 3 takeaways:  1) Goth Chanukah makes perfect sense 2) The ‘R’ in ‘macabre’ should be silent (both pronunciations are officially acceptable). 3) Etymology is fun! (but that is a bit of a given.

Also: Source1 Source2 Source3

(There is another explanation, but it seems less accepted and less fun so I have decided to ignore it)

[septembergold]

New Heavens I

[thebonesofhoudini]

The oldest Bible in the WORLD was found in ETHIOPIA.

Ethiopia is in Africa!!!

So why do you still want to believe that Jesus was anything other than a Black Man???

JESUS WAS BLACK!!!

[brooklynmuseum]

Happy Hanukkah from the Brooklyn Museum! 

The festival of lights commemorates an event in the 2nd century CE, when a small group of Jews led by Judah the Maccabee rose against the ruling Syrian-Greek army and reclaimed the Holy Temple of Jerusalem. The eight-day celebration is observed with a nightly menorah (ritual candelabra) lighting, games, and fried food like latkes and jelly doughnuts called sufganiyot.

Chag Sameach!

Jewish. Hanukkah Menorah, late 19th-early 20th century. Silver-plated metal. Loaned by Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc.

[endgameisrealbitches]

Baitsakhan: pffff,Maccabee and I don't have pet names for one another, we're cool.

Alice: uh yeah okay.Baits,what do bees make?

Baitsakhan: Honey?

Maccabee:[from the kitchen] Yes love?

[baitsabeeisreal]

Baitsakhan: I'm a true asset.

Maccabee: You're just off by two letters.